I heard last week that Sen. Hillary Clinton had gone on Larry King's show and blamed the Northeast blackout on the Bush administration, within hours of the lights going out. Found the transcript today via CNN and, yep, she really does show that kind of cynical opportunism.
I happen to think that making sure we have a reliable, affordable system of energy is a national priority. And I don't think that this administration sees it that way. They have continued to try to push deregulation and privatization, and to try to undo a lot of the systems in changes that many of us thought were important and necessary that we tried to work on during the Clinton administration under Secretary Richardson's leadership. And frankly to throw in a lot of roadblocks in the way of Governor Davis, when he tried to clean up some of the problems that he had with the manipulation of the energy markets by Enron and others. So, no, I don't think the federal administration under this president is really focused on making sure we don't have these problems in the future.via CNN Transcripts
This just corroborates yesterday's post.
Posted by Alan at August 17, 2003 10:50 PM