Katie Couric Interviews Clinton About The Primaries, The Gas Tax...

[depakid]

From the horse's mouth:

Note how Couric touts a bogus poll as a "true" reflection of the voters -when in fact, most undergrads would receive at best a "d" if they turned it in as a project for a stats class....

KATIE COURIC: So let me start by by asking you, Senator Clinton, you dismissed opposition to your tax gas holiday by economists as elitist, but a new CBS poll finds that about half of all voters also think it's a bad idea. And many think it's politically motivated. Do you think this proposal will end up hurting you more than helping you?

HILLARY CLINTON: No, not at all. In fact, a lot of people don't understand that I'm not proposing that we don't replace the revenues that would be lost. That's Senator McCain's position. In fact, I'm saying we should make the oil companies pay the gas tax this summer out of their record profits so that we don't make the deficit bigger. We don't deplete the highway trust fund.
........

COURIC: But, Senator Clinton, a lot of people say it would be a lot less money than $70 for those three months, and Senator Obama said earlier today your plan's a gimmick. It's phony, and rather than helping consumers it will just lead oil companies to raise prices. And, by the way, it would never pass in Congress.

CLINTON: Well, number one, I think we've gotta start going after the oil companies. Senator Obama supported a gas tax holiday without paying for it three times when he was in the state senate. So I'm really focusing on what we can do to give people immediate relief, Katie.

I don't see this false choice that Senator Obama and others set up between, oh, we've gotta wait for the long term. Get a president in January. Oil hit $120.21 a barrel today, I'm convinced that energy traders are manipulating the market.

I would launch an investigation by the Department of Justice and the Federal Trade Commission. I would close what's called the Enron loophole which leaves these traders totally unregulated. So there's a lot that I would do.

More, including video: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/05/05/eveningnews/main4073295.shtml

(if you can stand it).

[Skittles]

1. START gong after the oil companies?

THEY'VE BEEN GOUGING US FOR YEARS

[Auntie Bush]

5. And what's Obama going to do about immediate relief?

He has no vision or plans so he attacks hillary for proposing a better plan than his failed plan. But...No, No, No, he's not a politician.

[Skittles]

11. who the fuck said anything about Obama?

I think both HRC and Obama SUCK and neither one of them has done/will do a damn thing about it

[bhikkhu]

17. or CAN do a damn thing about it

though I will admit I am a long term pessimist on this issue.

[mcctatas]

15. What the fuck is Hillary going to do...

she knows that this turd of a pander is DOA in the senate, or if by some miracle it manages to pass out of the senate, bush will veto it post haste. This is yet ANOTHER distract and deflect. Hillary has such a low opinion of the regular folks that she claims to be advocating for that she has underestimated thier collective bullshit meter. Disgusting gutter politics only worthy of the republican slime machine!

[Auntie Bush]

18. Gee, you sound just like a DINO to me! Are you?

[mcctatas]

19. DINO's are the ones trying to fool the people by claiming they

are willing to take on big oil when they aren't. DINO's are the ones who would rather pander than be brutally honest, ya know, like Hillary....

[VolcanoJen]

16. Didn't you hear? Hillary just arrived in Washington two weeks ago.

Right after Pennsylvania.

Ready From Day One!!!!! :crazy:

[MadBadger]

2. She still doesnt address the fact that oil companies will just raise their prices.

[DemGa]

3. Naturally Obama assaulted Clinton's character

and Clinton talked policy - a major difference.

[Auntie Bush]

6. Just par for the course.

[Skittles]

12. it's called politics

all the candidates are doing one or the other, all the time

[LSparkle]

4. Traders are manipulating the market ...

Many of those same markets (commodities and energy trading)
that were DE-REGULATED by your husband ...

:shakesheadindisbelief:

[boppers]

7. Navy SEALS rock!

Ah, Katie. Such a serious reporter.

[GoesTo11]

8. HRC in the lion's den

First Larry King, then George Stephenopolous, and now Katie Couric?

HRC can handle the toughest!

[neverforget]

9. lion's den?

:rofl:

[GoesTo11]

13. Lion cubs maybe? Kittens?

[rainbow4321]

10. Speaking of Katie Couric

Our local CBS radio station has "A Page from Katie Couric's notebook" each evening during drive time...tonight's talked about this weekend's horse race and it's tragic ending and then segwayed into talking about the HRC camp. Ending it with something like "unless your rival is OUTSPENDING YOU..."


AAARGGGHH! How about "unless your rival is OUTRAISING YOU???"

[last1standing]

14. Oh! So we just don't understand! That sounds kind of elitist to me.

We're all just too stupid to figure out how she's going to force congress to pass a windfall profits tax with enough vote to override bush's* veto. I see now. :eyes: