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Now. it's been a problem for decades. as the governor of arizona herself indicated, what did george bush do during his eight years? did he do anything to solve this problem? >> he tried. >> he tried, karen, and he got no support. >> again, point being, this has been a problem for a very long time. i think just trying to pin this specifically and squarely on barack obama when, pat, other times you say he's taking on too much is a little, you know, out of bounds. the second thing -- >> let me respond to that. >> let me respond to the other thing you said, pat. it's my understanding that actually...

Offshore drilling and we still need to have coal mines. but what we need is a system that prices the risks of our energy production into the marketplace, and that's what the kerry/graham/lieberman compromise was working toward. so i think congress should keep these things in mind, but in a cool and rational way, not in a panicky way. because simply making a whole lot of energy production illegal wouldn't solve the problem. we've got to do these things, we've got to do them better and cleaner and safer. and we need to create a set of economic incentives in the marketplace that brings that resul...