C&L Video Clip, Frist: "And if President Clinton had not vetoed that..."

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/05/02.html#a8137


When is Frist going to stop appearing opposite Katie Couric? Remember when she hammered him back in November? Couric called him out on his idiotic 100.00 rebate plan and then forced him into blaming Clinton for our high gas prices...

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Think Progress has the transcript:

COURIC: Let me ask you about another aspect of your plan, because I know the $100 rebate is just one component, that it’s tied to another controversial proposal, which allows oil companies to drill for oil in the Artic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska. That has repeatedly failed to pass Congress. Some question the Republicans’ sincerity because they know in the view of these critics that this won’t pass.

FRIST: Let's talk about it. We passed it last month in the United States Senate. It has overwhelming - maybe you don’t support it — but it has overwhelming support. We passed it in the legislature back in 1996. President Clinton vetoed it. Unbelievable. Passed the House. Pass the Senate. And if President Clinton had not vetoed that, we would have more than a million barrels of oil coming here every single day. That’s more oil than we import from Saudi Arabia right now. It’s a matter supply and demand. Right now we would have increase supply if it had not been vetoed by President Clinton.

COURIC: I don't have a position on it.

[stray cat]

1. Frist said we have enough oil in Alaska to be independent

I thought there wasn't suppose to be that much oil there anyway.

[Debi]

2. And that it would take several years before we'd see the actual oil

from ANWR. :shrug: He said something about it being in the millions of gallons - more that we receive from overseas right now.

[unblock]

3. he also said some very optimistic things about schiavo....

[NanceGreggs]

4. Yeah, he said that right before he said Terri Schiavo ...

... was alert and cognitive.

What a loser. Every time I hear him described as 'presidential hopeful Bill Frist', it cracks me up. This is the BEST they've got?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

6. Rove expressed interest in running a Frist 2008 campaign...

...during the 2004 campaign. Since Junior was re-installed I haven't heard him mention it again. It was one of those "Since Bush can't have a third term, what do you see yourself doing next" questions and that's when he mentioned Frist.

No link to that, just a memory from 2004 and something that probably won't see the light of day anyway as it was said BEFORE Frist's video "diagnosis" of Schiavo and his stock troubles.

:patriot:

[CPMaz]

8. I HOPE he's the best they've got

Unfortunately, I'm sure that whoever gets the Repub nomination in 2008 with have some working brain cells (or will be fronting for someone who does.)

Let's face it, if the Repubs nominate Frist, after 8 years of W's clueless corruption, 2008 will be a walkover for the Dem nominee. That won't happen.

[ComerPerro]

10. LOL. Good point

[louis-t]

5. Such a lie. I don't believe that oil would be coming here.

I've heard it would most likely be sold to China and Japan.

[AtomicKitten]

7. And maybe if Frist had testicles he would be a man.

[WCGreen]

9. Couric should not have a position on it but should check

the facts and report back ASAP!!!!

Fuck her....

[ComerPerro]

11. everything is Clinton's fault. Except when things go good or even just ok

then its Bush's doing.