Palin: Drill Baby Drill, but blame Obama for the Spill!

[Joanne98]

Sarah Palin is weighing in on the BP oil spill, specifically, who is to blame for it and/or who is to blame for the spill taking so long to stop. I guess she can see the Deepwater Horizon site from her house. On Fox News, Palin had this to say:



"the oil companies who have so supported President Obama in his campaign and are supportive of him now ......there's any connection there to President Obama taking so doggone long to get in there, to dive in there, and grasp the complexity and the potential tragedy that we are seeing here in the Gulf of Mexico."

Palin is talking about the ability to grasp complexities? Sarah "in what respect Charlie" and "I know foreign policy because I can see Russia from my house when Putin rears his head over Alaska" Palin? "Death Panels" Sarah wants to talk complexities? Sarah, if you are so confident of your grasp of 'complexities' why don't you ask the producers of the shows you are on to put you head-to-head on various issues against some of the Democrats who appear on Fox? Even though I am not exactly your biggest fan, I'll volunteer, how about that? Any time on any issue. Yes Sarah, this is me, who has never held public office and should therefore be easy pickings for a former mayor and governor, calling you out.

The suggestion from Palin is that Obama took the most money from the oil and gas industry and she and her running mate, John McCain were innocent of this and thus would not have been influenced. The LA Times performed some research and found to whom the oil companies contributed the most money:

"The oil and gas industry donated $2.4 million to Palin's running mate, Republican John McCain, in the 2008 election cycle, and nearly $900,000 to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics' opensecrets.org website."


It ought to be pointed out that President Obama received tens of millions of dollars in contributions of $100 or less from working Americans all over the country including places like Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. If we are talking about amounts of money influencing people, then one would have to conclude that Obama is working 24x7 on the needs and problems of average working Americans.

Sarah Palin typifies the 21st century Republican politician and use of Republican strategy, throw a plethora of accusations at Democrats without any regard to whether they are true and if one sticks, keep using it. Each instance of this is more galling than the next. Its as if Republicans are emboldened by the fact that they keep getting away with it. These latest statements by Palin are perhaps the most egregious example. The fact that Palin who is Miss Big Oil champion herself is trying to assert that someone else is somehow more beholden to the oil companies is unmitigated gall.

http://www.opednews.com/articles/Palin-Drill-Baby-Drill-b-by-Steven-Leser-100525-653.html

[stray cat]

1. We want cheap oil and energy and continue to use it and then claim everyone else is to blame

how many americans have sworn off oil and anything that uses it or was made with energy from it

[bulloney]

2. How cheap is oil, really?

I get so frustrated in conversations when people throw that line out about alternatives to oil not being financially viable.

For starters, oil companies get tax breaks in the billions.

U.S. taxpayers pay for the military protection in the Persian Gulf region for the oil companies, totaling billions of dollars. U.S. taxpayers pay for the military invasions of these countries so the oil companies can have the means of extracting oil from the region. How many lives have been lost or disrupted because of our military protection provided for oil companies in the Middle East?

As we're seeing with the Gulf of Mexico disaster, taxpayers will pay the lion's share of the cleanup. Privatize the profits and socialize the liabilities.

About 20 years ago, a panelist on an alternative energy panel discussion I attended said the cost to deliver a gallon of gasoline from the Persian Gulf to the U.S. was over $5/gallon. That was 1990. That cost has undoubtedly increased substantially since then.

But we can't have a wind or solar energy program because it would have to be subsidized to 'compete' with oil. We can't support alternative fuels like ethanol or biofuels because they would have to be subsidized to 'compete' with oil. We can't develop and support mass transit programs because they would have to be subsidized to 'compete' with the status quo. Hello! The airline industry is subsidized. Don't taxpayers fund the public airports and provide all of the amenities that go with them? Our highway system is a big social program (except perhaps toll roads).

Oil is not cheap. People never are given the total actual costs of running on oil.