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Title: 'Drill, Baby, Drill' Champions Silent On Gulf Oil Spill
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HUFFINGTON
URL Source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/ ... y-drill-champion_n_558014.html
Published: Apr 30, 2010
Author: HUFFINGTON
Post Date: 2010-04-30 12:00:04 by Brian S
Keywords: None
Views: 2428
Comments: 6
UPDATE: Palin has made her first comments on the spill, scroll down to see.
More than a week has passed since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 50 miles off the Louisiana coast, killing 11 workers, injuring over a dozen more, and causing a massive oil spill that may eclipse the Exxon Valdez.
Yet the two most prominent political champions of offshore drilling -- Sarah Palin and Michael Steele -- appear not to have uttered a word about the incident.
Not that either one of them has been completely silent. Sarah Palin has published four new messages on her Facebook page since the initial explosion, including a post on Thursday titled "The Straight-talking 'Hockey Dad' with a Message for Reform" and another defending Rev. Franklin Graham after he was asked not to attend a Pentagon prayer event.
Likewise, Michael Steele has issued at least six statements over the past week, including one on a new Republican National Committee web video, "Mr. Obama's Wild Ride."
And yet, if they do comment, it's hard to imagine that Palin and Steele would take the same tone that they've typically used when discussing offshore drilling.
"Drill, baby, drill! And drill now!" Steele memorably chanted at the Republican National Convention in 2008. "Do you want to put your country first? Then let's make decisions about our security based on what keeps us safe and not on what's politically correct," he told the crowd.
And during that year's vice presidential debate, Palin told Joe Biden, "You even called drilling -- safe, environmentally-friendly drilling offshore -- as raping the outer continental shelf. There -- with new technology, with tiny footprints even on land, it is safe to drill and we need to do more of that."
UPDATE: At 10:40AM ET on Friday, Sarah Palin made her first comment on the oil spill, posting the following on Twitter: "Having worked/lived thru Exxon oil spill,my family&I understand Gulf residents' fears.Our prayers r w/u.All industry efforts must b employed"
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What I understand from reading the posters at LP and FR, there are two causes of the disaster and one consequence:
1) Obama did it on purpose, to allow him to jettison his proposal to allow off-shore drilling. That's why the SWAT teams are there.
2) Environmentalists did it because of Earth Day, with Obama's permission. The SWAT teams are there to cover up the evidence.
Having personally caused this disaster, this is now Obama's Katrina, showing how much better a president Bush was than Obama is.
" Think how dumb the average American is and then realize that half the country is even dumber" - George Carlin
#2. To: Skip Intro (#1)
Our local hate-radio kooks were proclaiming that Iran did it a couple of days ago but now they have latched onto the "Obama angle"...
Never swear "allegiance" to anything other than the 'right to change your mind'!
#3. To: Brian S (#2)
Lake Palin...
#67. To: war (#48) Keep hiding behind the bozo, bozo. (laughing) You've always been a world class pussy. Badeye posted on 2010-01-14 16:12:48 ET Reply Trace
#4. To: Brian S (#0)
You NeoCons wants us in the ME instead.
We are not silent:
Why did Obama wait 9 days to protect or Gulf shore?
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Toss: ADL,CAIR and the Vatican into the pit they belong in.
#5. To: Skip Intro (#1)
What I understand
You're a fookin dunce so it means very little, skippy.
Sneakypete, have you ever been married? Said things you later regretted?
#6. To: Skip Intro (#1)
There are people on all to the forums on the Pinguinite server who believe Shrubya, "minions" or superiors of his were responsible for 9-11 in order to build up the New World Order's survalience and detention powers under the "war on terror".
Why can't you believe that the Kenyan Prez, "minions" or superiors of his might have also been behind this oil spill in order to push the "New World Order's" Cap and Tax and Environmentally based depopulation schemes.
The Fed EXPOSED!!! The FARO RESERVE BANK!!!
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