Bill Clinton in Guilty, by Ann Coulter

On Environment: OpEd: Arsenic rule would cost small western towns millions

In the first months in office, Bush was bedeviled by hundreds of regulations the Clinton administration had issued in its final days. The most famous of the Clinton last-minute rule changes was the new rule lowering the amount of arsenic permissible in drinking water. During 8 years of Clinton's presidency, his administration considered 50 parts per billion of arsenic in drinking water an acceptable standard--the standard since 1942. But just days before Clinton left office, the EPA issued a new rule that would lower the standard to 10 parts per billion over a 5 year period.

To comply with the new rule, small towns in western states, where arsenic naturally occurs, would be forced to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on new water plants. The liberal Brookings Institution and the conservative American Enterprise Institute produced a joint study showing that rather than saving lives, the new standard would actually cost about 10 lives annually [due to loss of medical service funding].

Source: Guilty, by Ann Coulter, p.205-206 Nov 10, 2009

On War & Peace: 1998: They called me 'obsessed' for going after bin Laden

Fox News's Chris Wallace asked [Clinton], "Why didn't you do more to put bin Laden and al Qaeda out of business?" The former president said, "I think it's very interesting that all conservative Republicans, who now say I didn't do enough, claimed that I was too obsessed with bin Laden. All of President Bush's neocons thought I was too obsessed with bin Laden. All the right-wingers who now say I didn't do enough said I did too much--same people."

Needless to say, no "right-wingers" or anyone else ever said Clinton was "too obsessed with bin Laden." The Washington Post declared on August 21, 1998, "President Clinton won warm support for ordering anti-terrorist bombing attacks in Afghanistan and Sudan from many of the same lawmakers who have criticized him harshly as a leader and critically weakened by poor judgment and reckless behavior in the Monica S. Lewinsky scandal." [The article quoted] Republican Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich and Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott.

Source: Guilty, by Ann Coulter, p.244-245 Nov 10, 2009

The above quotations are from Guilty Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America by Ann Coulter. Click here for other excerpts from Guilty Liberal "Victims" and Their Assault on America by Ann Coulter. Click here for other excerpts by Bill Clinton. Click here for a profile of Bill Clinton.
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