That Didn’t Take Long
When life imitates Cox and Forkum:
Hillary Clinton: 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.
Wasn’t Richardson pushing deregulation too?
Update: Yeah, Richardson was pushing deregulation in 1998:
We are on the vanguard of deregulating the electricity industry–a remarkable development that will save American businesses and consumers 20 billion dollars annually. Technological innovations and competition from deregulation will cause power plants to become more efficient in the future.
Hat Tip on the update: Jay
August 15th, 2003 at 3:08 pm
Oh for Pete’s sake! Transmission assets are still completely freaking regulated and that’s what failed yesterday. That woman is such a demagouge.
August 15th, 2003 at 9:50 pm
Not only that Richardson says that Hillary is again exercising revisionist history.
http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0308/14/lkl.00.html
August 16th, 2003 at 1:09 pm
She is such a cunt. That bitch will sway whichever way the wind blows. She would promote the idea that the moon is made of cheese if it would get her votes…