"Drill. Baby. Drill!" Bill Maher Today: "Every Asshole Who Ever Chanted..."

[Hissyspit]

BILL MAHER TODAY VIA TWITTER:

"Every asshole who ever chanted 'Drill Baby Drill' should have to report to the Gulf Coast today for cleanup duty."




INCLUDED IN THE ROLL CALL:

“So, do you want to put your country first?,” asked former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele. “Then let’s reduce our dependency on foreign sources of oil and promote oil and gas production at home. In other words: Drill, baby, drill! And drill now!,” he said.

Egged-on by delegates on the floor of the Xcel Center Rudy Giuliani said, “Drill, baby, drill,” a little tentatively at first, which was then followed by a more robust “Drill, baby, drill.”

Senators who once were tempted to expand offshore drilling are raising alarms instead about a destroyed well that is spewing a thousand barrels of oil a day into the Gulf of Mexico. “The continued failure to stop the leak threatens to wreak untold damage on Florida’s coastlines,” Florida Senator George LeMieux warned this week. “The federal government needs to make this their immediate, number-one priority...” Just a few weeks ago, LeMieux was talking hopefully about the revenue potential of allowing expanded drilling closer to the shores of Florida. His Republican colleague Richard Shelby has long favored offshore drilling if it brings revenue to his state of Alabama.

...Political figures like former Speaker Newt Gingrich and Senator John McCain (R-AZ) chanted the popular cry: “Drill Here, Drill Now!”

Said Sarah Palin: "That’s why we must develop our own domestic supplies of oil and gas. Though the chant of 'Drill, baby, drill' was much derided, it expressed the need to confront this issue head-on before it reaches a crisis point."


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"Drill, Baby, Drill! Drill, Baby, Drill!"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhvRQyRdVEI

[JuniperLea]

1. This is slowly killing our planet...

Yet no one seems to realize that suicidal tendencies are a sickness. It's really sick what we're doing... even more sick are the greedy bastards who push for more domestic drilling.

[roguevalley]

19. wait until the dead and dying animals wash up. this is bringing back

terrible memories of Exxon Valdez. :(

[Hissyspit]

21. Updated Version at Daily Kos with More PHOTOS:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/30/862077/-DRILL-BABY-DRILL-Bill-Maher-Today:-Every-Asshole-Who-Ever-Chanted...

EXPLANATION AT THE TIME OF WHY "DRILL BABY DRILL" WOULD WORK BETTER AS A PALIN PORNO THAN AS A NATIONAL ENERGY POLICY:

"Since 1949 the overall pattern has been this: the harder we look for oil and the more we drill, the harder it gets to find ... The facts clearly show that people who believe that by simply ramping up drilling we will substantially improve our diminishing domestic oil production, well, these people—to use an expression not uncommon in oil country—are very much pissing in the wind..."


WARNING AT THE TIME OF ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT:

"Environmentally speaking, the possible effects of offshore drilling range from dangerous to disastrous. Proponents of drilling cite new technology that has minimized spills from hurricanes. However, 2005’s hurricanes Katrina and Rita caused spills of at least seven million gallons of oil, a huge number even in comparison to the 11 million gallons spilled by the oft-cited 1989 Exxon-Valdez environmental disaster. In November of 2005, an oil tanker spilled an estimated one to three million gallons of oil when it hit a sunken platform in the Gulf that had drifted out of place. The affects on global warming are also numerous as each oil platform produces 214,000 pounds of air pollutants each year."


LATEST DEVELOPMENTS:

Gulf Oil Spill Could Eclipse Exxon Valdez

Massive Spill Far Worse Than Initially Thought

CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writers
UPDATED: 7:29 pm CDT April 29, 2010

VENICE, La. - An oil spill that threatened to eclipse even the Exxon Valdez disaster spread out of control and drifted inexorably toward the Gulf Coast on Thursday as fishermen rushed to scoop up shrimp and crews spread floating barriers around marshes.

Oil Slick Just a Few Miles from Louisiana Coast

Ten wildlife refuges in Mississippi and Louisiana are in the oil's likely path, with the Pass-a-Loutre Wildlife Management Area at the tip of the Mississippi River likely to be the first affected, Jindal announced. Wildlife conservation groups said Thursday the oil could be a disaster for coastal areas of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. (FishOutofWater's Diary)

Originally estimated at 1,000 barrels (42,000 gallons) per day, now 5,000 barrels (210,000 gallons) of oil per day.

[louis-t]

41. Only this is a lot closer to home.

[madmax]

54. My first thoughts also

followed by a flood of tears for the animals and those whose livelihood depend on the gifts of the oceans.

Buy Dawn dish detergent - they donate money and product to save the animals. :cry:

[defendandprotect]

87. .. and right wing got them off the hook for the fines . . .as I recall--!!

[happygoluckytoyou]

135. i thot it was FIRST DUDES business partner SARAH WAS TELLING TO "drill oh baby drill"

[AtheistCrusader]

67. The planet will be fine.

We're killing ourselves.

The planet may take a few hundred, or a few thousand years to recover, but meanwhile, we're killing ourselves. If nothing else, we're destroying our own habitat and food chain.

[stuntcat]

90. the sped-up mass-extinction

Earth cannot be destroyed, but something about my species wiping out other whole species breaks my heart, it's just cosmically dirty.
No matter how many times I'm told the planet will be just fine, I am still sick.

[defendandprotect]

92. Nonsense . . . there is no way to guarantee that the planet will survive our destruction...

our capitalistic destruction of nature --

Much of the Ozone layer has close to 50% damage, other than the actual holes -- !!

We've already had tremendous changes in temperature -- 25 degrees above normal here in NJ --

And we are suffering steadily increasing chaotic weather across the planet -- which will

increase. There's a 50 year delay in Global Warming which means we are only feeling the

effects of our activities up to 1960. And no one knows how all of this may compound.

Especially with the latest disaster from BP/Gulf oil spill!

Glacier melting seems also to be increasing plate shifting -- causing more earthquakes

When you HEAT up the atmosphere, you get chaos.

Again, no one can guarantee that the planet will continue turning --

and there is always the possibility of a pole shift.


THIS is capitalism -- and its suicidal!




PS: Every day more and more of nature and its beauty is destroyed --

as patriarchy/capitalism build a world which reflects its own inner ugliness/sickness/violence.

[ooglymoogly]

132. Rumor has it, the next big venture is mountaintop mining in Yosemite. nt

[texastoast]

110. Bing-GO!

Mother Earth will be fine. She gave us a wonderful chance, but we just had to increase our numbers to the point that She can't provide for us all in the fashion to which we've become accustomed. We are fools.

[G_j]

116. that's not true

I mean, of course there will still be a planet, but it's not just human beings we are talking about.
For example, extinct species are just that.

[h9socialist]

77. Drop the word "slowly" . . .

. . . this accelerates matters quite a bit.

[defendandprotect]

95. Completely agree -- no one knows how all of this may compound. . . .

Here in NJ we have temperatures averaging 25 degrees above norma --

When you heat up the atmosphere you get chaotic weather conditions and we are

seeing those conditions more and more frequently --

Melting glaciers also seem to be increasing plate shifting --

[h9socialist]

103. Conservative denial

What's even more incredible is how many people listen to Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck ranting on that global warming and environmental damage is a hoax. Limbaugh insists that capitalist industry hasn't harmed the enviroment at all and that it is an "absolute good." Such denial will be the undoing of human civilization!

[AtheistCrusader]

120. Source on the plate shifting?

I haven't seen any increase in actual earthquake activity around the world. We've had a few hit close to civilized areas, but the overall number of quakes, and the strengths of those quakes are not abnormal.

[defendandprotect]

121. Well . . .

someone here supplied some info on that only about a week ago --

if you know how to use archives -- good luck!

However, the original Pentagon memo to Bush included increasing EARTHQUAKES in their

rendition of how much more dangerous Global Warming was to us vs "terrorism."

Granted, I don't think at the moment there is hard evidence that that we have as yet

passed any average number of earthquakes.

But, the Pentagon believed this would happen -- among other chaotic weather conditions

and increasing chaotic conditions -- and the info someone else supplied suggested that

Glacier melting would cause plate shifting.

Keep in mind the Pentagon memo has been scrubbed of that detail - - and I don't have the original.

[Enthusiast]

127. I don't think glacial melting

is contributing to extra plate tectonic activity. Plate shifting is non-stop.

[defendandprotect]

129. I am of the opinion that the Pentagon is correct . . .

that Global Warming will increase earthquake activity --

one of the reasons for that would be glacier melting/plate shifting--

[Enthusiast]

131. Okay,

I do know that earthquakes we experience in Ohio and the Great Lake States are generally from rebound after the ice sheets from the last glacial period melted. But, it is vertical movement more than horizontal.

[defendandprotect]

134. Others here seem to have more info on it --

I certainly don't understand the vertical/horizontal difference --

Surprised someone didn't come along here to help out -- maybe later?

:)

[Hissyspit]

84. LATEST UPDATES: First Injured Bird

New drilling on hold as Gulf spill oil washes up

By CAIN BURDEAU, Associated Press Writer – 53 mins ago

The National Weather Service predicted winds, high tides and waves through Sunday that could push oil deep into the inlets, ponds and lakes that line the boot of southeastern Louisiana. Seas of 6 to 7 feet were pushing tides several feet above normal toward the coast, compounded by thunderstorms expected in the area Friday.

First oiled bird found, cleaned up

No burning or skimming oil for now due to winds, high seas

NBC News and news services updated 31 minutes ago

FORT JACKSON, La. - Oil from a massive leak in the Gulf of Mexico was starting to ooze ashore in the southeastern U.S. on Friday, as crews cleaned up the first bird found coated with oil. The wide leak threatens wildlife along fragile islands and barrier marshes and puts one of the world's richest seafood grounds in peril.

Workers with Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research, which is based in Delaware, used Dawn blue dishwashing soap to scrub the oil off the young Northern Gannet. The detergent is commonly used to clean animals. Dr. Erica Miller, with Tri-State Bird Rescue and Research, gave Pepto-Bismol to a Northern Gannet on Friday in Fort Jackson, La. The bird, normally white when fully grown, was covered in oil from the rig leak. Pepto-Bismol was used because the bird probably also ingested oil.

The rescue center says the bird was found offshore, not on the shoreline.

[Enthusiast]

126. But but.....

the "End Times" are near. No reason to preserve the environment.

[MountainLaurel]

2. +1000

Here in New Orleans, the smell is already burning my husband's throat.

[malaise]

3. K & R

Spill baby Spill!

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

4. Does that include anybody who's ever complained about gas prices?

[BeFree]

5. Strawman

Gas prices go up and down independent of spills.

So your bs is just that. You really ought to stop spilling that crap.

[Junkdrawer]

6. No. But it does include industry shills...n/t

[laughingliberal]

44. +1 nt

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

56. Just not their customers?

Their loyal, regular customers?

[pundaint]

72. Customers don't have much choice beyond who they vote for. So customers

voting for those who abandoned CAFE standards, or who voted for those weakening environmental enforcement, or those defeating exploration of new technologies are also culpable.

We, as a country, have reached new standards for willful ignorance. And we are being exploited for it.

[Hissyspit]

9. .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x4361381

[sabrina 1]

14. No it includes everyone who was in a position to do something

about and who blocked every effort to develope alternative energy so that they could continue to profit from oil. Surely you are not as dumb as that comment makes you appear to be. I would expect it from the Glen Beck contingency but not from anyone with a few brain cells still functioning.

But, since you raised it. What exactly is your point?

[AlbertCat]

75. What exactly is your point?

Perhaps it's to show he can pretend solar panels and wind energy have not been around since the 1970's.... and completely sidelined.... for 40 years....

[texastoast]

113. Sidelined in large part by efforts of the oil bidness

And the nukular bidness. Big construction didn't want anything that didn't include LOTS of steel and concrete and risk.

[LSK]

16. oil supplies have NOTHING to do with speculators driving up prices

[laughingliberal]

46. True. I noticed that prices didn't come down after a couple of weeks of no planes flying in

Europe. Obviously a lot of gas was saved during the volcano eruption which meant demand was down. Yet, prices continued to go up.

[defendandprotect]

122. Someone had best be working on planes flying on solar energy -- !!

[Chef Eric]

30. No, but it does include folks who make snarky comments that stray off topic. nt

[Jakes Progress]

37. At least you are consistent.

Always smugly wrong, but consistently so.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

39. Has become a broken record of being smugly wrong

I am sure it is by design.

[gtar100]

40. I'll just label this as 'bate' and leave it at that.

[Javaman]

47. A better tactic would have been...

we all use fossil fuel based products. In our ever self denying pursue of more oil for our grossly over indulgent lifestyle, we seem to only complain AFTER a spill. As if oil only exists in the abstract prior.

we type our screeds, our words of wisdom and our indignation on a machine produced via fossil fuels.

We eat, live and drive because of fossil fuels.

The amusing hypocrisy of complaining while we motor to work, eat our factory farmed food, wear our fossil fuel produced clothes and breath our fossil fuel polluted air.

yet, we get bent out of shape when one oil platform gets a leak, rather then get pissed off and angry at the daily pumping of fossil fuels into our system.

There are spills every freaking day, but they don't get reported. There are spills in the middle east, in Nigeria, in China, in Canada, but yet, we get pissed off over this one because it's right in our face. In an area that is basically a dead zone due to fertilizer run off. But no one complains about that.

We choose to willingly live in disconnect. I recall something my mom would say to me when I was a kid, that would really piss me off, "what? you want to save the world?" Yes, actually, I do. But I can't do it alone.

Stop being gluttons. Stop driving when you can walk. Eat less junk food, bicycle more. Reduce your footprint.

We all can rant and rave all we want about this spill, but our life style is what made this happen.

If you don't demand something, there will be no need for it.

It's really that simple.

But alas, it's easier to expunge ones hate, frustration and powerlessness on the internet that it is actually doing something about it.

Meh, I'm no better.

[Boudica the Lyoness]

64. It's kind of people saying they are hungry

and then someone kills a baby for them to eat and says, "Well you said you were hungry".

[stuntcat]

91. I've been complaining for years about the prices being too low.

And I don't even drive, but since I'm a human I take blame for everything we're doing to the rest of the animals and to the planet.

[slutticus]

105. You know,

I was initially thinking of piling on the bandwagon to deride the drill baby drill mantra like some hysterical fool...but then I realized that I drove my car to work this morning.

So I think I'll just sit down and shut up.


But this really is terrible and has me thinking twice about my commuting options.

[Hissyspit]

118. Driving your car to work and chanting braindead slogans are not the same thing.

There are degrees of involvement here. Some people work for alternate energy sources and some people work against them. Some people work to educate others on the need and possibilities for shifting from oil consumption and some people muddy the dialogue deliberately. Almost all of these people have to drive a car.

[ingac70]

7. kick.

[glitch]

8. K. Baby. R! nt

[humbled_opinion]

10. Stop the Insanity...

Doesn't everyone understand that we all are slaves, slaves to oil, no gas for your car no transportation to work, no oil no heat, no production, ask yourself a simple question when gas goes up by a dollar a gallon how painful is that for you? My family has to give up things, vacations, deserts, movie night, cable... and on and on...What happens to that top 1 percent that we always hear about? NOTHING, it means absolutely nothing to them. If Oil was distributed based on your income and you were charge on a curve so that it hurt your damned right people that could, would, fix this problem.

People need to get a grip and solve the problem from the consumer level. Screw the Oil industry, if you make the need for oil obsolete we solve a multitude of problems.

I thought Obama would have truly gotten serious about addressing this problem but we just keep on driving ourselves toward the cliff so much for the Change we can believe in.

[Raine]

11. EXACTLY, that was my first thoughts

too. Give them some wader boots and a bottle of Dawn and started cleaning up those poor little critters that are in that F'ing mess! :mad:

[HipChick]

12. If aliens do exist..

they are smart to stay the hell away from us..

[defendandprotect]

123. Think they feel the need to keep an eye on us -- we could pollute the entire universe!!

[The Damned]

13. K&R

[Dr.Phool]

15. Redneck Battle Cry. Drill Baby Drill!!!!

Every time I hear that, I'm reminded of the time, right before the election, sitting in a Tarpon Springs area restaurant, with a booth filled with 4 rednecks, 2 male, 2 females, with about 12 teeth between them, chanting, Drill baby drill!

[AlbertCat]

78. Redneck Battle Cry. Drill Baby Drill!!!!

And look at the map! Look at those deep red states...LA, MS, AL, FL.... who's coasts are gonna be mucked up.


I'm in NC. And they want to drill off the Outer Banks???? The Gulf is relatively calm compared to the friggin' "Graveyard of the Atlantic" (from Wikipedia: More than 1,000 ships have sunk in these waters since records began in 1526.)... where the Gulf Stream would probably carry an oil slick right up to DC and New England.

[obxhead]

117. Exactly, they want to drill off the OBX which would be far better suited

for a massive wind farm.

[lfairban]

17. Oh, the futility of it all.

It is kind of funny to see those tiny boats trying to corral that big oil slick.

{Head shaking noise}

[Blue_Tires]

18. add Bob McDonnell to the roll call

http://weblogs.dailypress.com/news/science/dead_rise/2010/04/mcdonnell_reaffirms_support_fo.html

[Dappleganger]

20. K&R

[progressoid]

22. This doesn't mean shit to them.

They could care less about this. Just another day in their selfish lives.

[lonestarnot]

23. Maybe they will offer to throw their teabags in to sop up some and if not

maybe we should sop it up with THEM.

[BrightKnight]

112. This the the result of an out of control spill, baby, spill "Texas tea" party.

Irresponsible dumping is what tea baggers are all about. It was caused by lack of government oversight, and a complete lack of corporate accountability.

[Hissyspit]

24. Self-kick nt

[Rhiannon12866]

25. K&R for Bill! Sarah Palin had better get out her waders!

Another terrible environmental tragedy. ;(

[LaPera]

111. She doesn't own any - They wre just props.

[unhappycamper]

26. This Republican plan is working the same as all the others.

Why the surprise?

[Frank Cannon]

27. There hasn't been a Republican idea worth a shit since Ike Eisenhower...

suggested that we needed to do something about the collusion of industry and the military.

Since Richard Nixon, I honestly cannot think of a single Republican plan that hasn't inflicted some form of pain and misery on anyone NOT in the top 1% income bracket.

[GoCubsGo]

28. Hell, even Nixon looks good compared to the current crop.

He's the one who gave us the EPA, and signed the Clean Air, Clean Water, and Endangered Species Acts that his party has been trying to obliterate. Even ol' Tricky Dick would be disgusted with these clowns. at least regarding the environment.

[pezDispenser]

68. that RINO!

[ProudDad]

69. Don't give him too much credit

At that time there was a Congress filled with Democrats who were born, bred and weaned on the New Deal and who could muster a veto override...

And Nixon himself, when it came to clean air and water and food safety was also born and bred on the New Deal and still believed that government had a right to protect "We the People" from SOME of the most egregious forms of corporate greed...

But that's all gone, not just in the far-right bat-crap crazy republican party but most of the Dems don't have a clue about community -- just their corporate masters' needs.

[defendandprotect]

124. True . . . Nixon damaged what he could damage . . . but he could only go so far at the time...

[pezDispenser]

66. If only Eisenhower would have been in a position to do something about that

:shrug:

[ProudDad]

70. Don't give Eisenhower too much credit

He was totally hands-off...

He would be on the golf course...letting his corporate friends take care of it...

[Javaman]

86. He was the king of committee creation.

He liked being general were people followed orders, wasn't so simple as prez, so he chose to go golfing instead.

Sounds like someone* who used to clear brush.

[Ian David]

29. Something called oil-spill monitoring. n/t

[Christa]

31. K & Highly rec'd nt

[southernyankeebelle]

32. Hey Sarah how is that Drill baby drill going for you know?

[defendandprotect]

125. Will she ever be asked that question?

[ima_sinnic]

33. until we give up our dependence on oil, this is what we can expect.

or would it be better to cover "somebody else's" shores with oil?
unfortunately, it doesn't work that way. What affects the oceans (and in the big picture, what affects any land anywhere) affects us all.

Planetary suicide is not pretty.

[anachro1]

34. If only we could toss

Sarah Palin & her ilk into the spill. The GREED alone would pick up most of the mess.

[disillusioned73]

35. They need to be reminded...

of the their idiotic mantra every day, every hour until the cleanup is concluded( probably years?? or never??). I remember cringing every time I heard their slogan and it brings me no pleasure to be proven correct that more drilling was/is not the solution.....

How did our country get dumbed down this much?? I here of previous generations and how they blazed the trail in inovations and technology - what the hell happened to my generation?? I hope my son sees better days, and that I live to see that trend as well...

[AlbertCat]

83. How did our country get dumbed down this much??

Talk radio and the rise of the Religious Right. Remember...faith is the end of inquiry. The Bush administration was the triumph of anti-intellectualism. You see the results.

[scentopine]

36. Bill, Baby, Bill ! -nt

[florida08]

38. amazing pictures

Why is BP drilling in our waters anyway? Both BP and Trans Ocean should be sued by any the states it's oil will ruin..not to mention
the families of those who died and are injured.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/04/26/big-oil-fought-off-new-sa_n_552575.html">Big Oil Fought Off New Safety Rules Before Rig Explosion

[PSzymeczek]

137. Because BP has bought out what used to be Amoco,

Standard Oil of Ohio, and Arco.

[Juan_de_la_Dem]

42. Just horrible. I guess it is simply collateral damage to Sarah and her ilk.

[joeybee12]

43. KNR

[Myrina]

45. Karma expressing its opinion on offshore drilling and continued abuse of our planet ...

:(

[axollot]

53. Karma is really trying to make a point too - add in 2 mining accidents.

maybe the next mountain top they blow off will land on the board some how and the sludge over their families.
Keep thinking about the animals. They don't deserve this...and they did nothing to deserve us. Been crying - the storms are coming which will blow that further up into the MS area. Florida should feel this as well.

Cheers
Sandy

[laughingliberal]

48. K & R nt

[Blue Owl]

49. Sarah Palin can shove her oil drill up her ass

Non-thinking idiots like her just hasten the demise of our planet, and ruin it for everyone else.

Your financial profit don't mean shit when you've made the planet we have to share with you uninhabitable.

[AnArmyVeteran]

97. She would probably like it if it was 'lubed' up with hot, sweet crude...

[liberal N proud]

50. And Palin should be required to take a bath in the shit.

[madmax]

52. Has the dumb bitch said anything about this?

I don't know about anyone else but, trying to keep up with all the shit that happens - Wall Street, oil spills, Arizona Nazi's, Health care Reform. I can't do it!! I'm going to pick 1 or 2 issues and focus on those with a vengeance. The scatter gun technique - into it all doesn't seem to work for me. I'll focus on my passion and hopefully make a small difference.

[madmax]

51. RIGHT ON BILL!!!!!!!!

10 thousand cheers my man!

[Uncle Joe]

55. What a mess.

:(

Thanks for the thread, Hissyspit.

[EnviroBat]

57. Every asshole that chanted that crap should be drowned in it.

Fuck every last one of them, especially that stupid asshole Sarah Palin.

[stuntcat]

93. ..

fuck them to death. 6 billion people need to be deleted and they are fucking first in line.

[The Damned]

58. Palin with a pail

I like it!

[David Zephyr]

59. K&R 147.

n/t

[edwinmathews]

60. It breaks my heart

to see whats happening to the gulf since i use to live down there . How ever i don't need a goof /pedophile like Maher that rides around in limos and private jets and does nothing for the environment except pay it lip service to comment on anything .

[KansDem]

61. Corporations are "people" now...

If you or I did this, we'd be looking at huge fines and maybe some jail time.

So, what are we waiting for? Round up the usual suspects...:grr:

[Rex]

62. Last night on the news they said the oil spill was now the size of Jamaica.

And you can see it from space. :(

[lupinella]

63. K&R n/t

[gmoney]

65. some strangely beautiful photographs of a horrible situation

[ProudDad]

71. Mother Nature bats last...

Peak Oil...

Catastrophic Climate Destabilization...

Economic collapse (since the entire capitalist system was built on fossil fuels)...

Connect the dots...

It IS the end of an era...this is just another symptom of the process of decline...

Power Down...

Relocalize...

www.transitionus.org
http://transitiontowns.org/

[janet118]

73. Is that plume headed for Mississippi and Alabama?

If so, Haley Barbour and Richard Shelby will be screaming like stuck pigs soon. "Waaaaah!!! We meant 'Drill somewheres else, baby. Drill!'"

[aquart]

80. I wish it would only spill on them, but it won't.

My question is how deep inland will the reek go? And what do we know about the health issues for the people breathing it?

[txwhitedove]

136. Fuck Haley..., but the spill is following the same path as Katrina...

so my heart goes out to my friends in Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama.

:cry:

[Hekate]

74. KnR. Great photos. Horrifying, but great.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

76. Does that include Obama?

:hide: :evilgrin:

Yeah, overturning the ban on offshore drilling doesn't have the same ring as "Drill, baby, drill!" but the ugly results tend to be the same.

[MisterP]

81. excuse 1: "It's okay of he does it"

excuse 2: "Republicans"
excuse 3: Focus only on McCain and Palin, thereby cementing BIpartisanship via PARTISANship

[Hell Hath No Fury]

88. You know, I am getting mighty fedup --

with the "It's OK when he does it" shit I read on a daily basis here. I feel like I stepped down some, sick, fucked up rabbit hole when that happens. :mad:

I have been coming here for 8+ years to get the TRUTH.

Not spin, not propaganda, not partisan excuses, but the TRUTH.

I hated it when the GOPer sheep excused W's bullshit and I am doubly hating it when I see Dems doing it for O.

Thank you for "getting" my point.

[ProudDad]

79. Eaarth

Post Carbon Fellow Bill McKibben and Executive Director Asher Miller discuss Bill's sobering assessment of life on earth as presented in his brand new book Eaarth. Bill also provides an update on the efforts of his 350.org campaign.

http://www.postcarbon.org/video/94306-post-carbon-exchange-2-bill-mckibben

[erpowers]

82. He Has a Point

Bill Maher does have a point. Since these people were so in favor of drilling they should be willing to go to the Gulf and help in the cleanup. My only question is could anyone, if they wanted to, go to the area and try to help?

[defendandprotect]

85. And a cap to prevent this would have cost $500,000 . . . !!! Vs this damage --!!!

[Bryn]

89. I am horrified about this. Make Sarah Palin clean it up!

I remember Sarah Palin's screech "Drill, Baby, Drill" on SNL soooooooooo proudly!!!

[defendandprotect]

96. Shouldn't we have a comment from Palin about now . . . ???? Hmmm....??

[ooglymoogly]

94. KR; Destroying the planet; Destroying humanity; One gallon, one barrel,

one rig/ship catastrophe, at a time; But mostly by sheer self immolating ignorance and profound stupidity; Unbridled by mountains of the most careless greed.

[defendandprotect]

99. NATIONALIZE the oil industry . . . it was a good idea in 1960 . . .

it was a good idea before that -- and it's still a good idea.

The Democratic Platform JFK ran on in 1960 called for the nationalizing of oil.

FDR wanted to nationalize oil and sought advice from LBJ who wasn't for it.

Long and damaging road from those times to these!!


And, what if the oil is actually the earth's ballast -- ?

[BrightKnight]

109. It would pay for health care. - n/t

[KansDem]

98. Perhaps their cry now should be "Spill, Baby, Spill"

Sometimes I can only shake my head in disbelief at the Republicans.

[defendandprotect]

100. Yes . . . but Obama is also walking the "drill, baby, drill" path . . .

though evidently he's taking a step or two back from it since this catastrophe --!!

[AnArmyVeteran]

102. Sarah Palin would make a good conservative Secretary of the Interior...

Look at Reagan's Secretary of the Interior James Watt? Between Reagan thinking trees caused pollution and James Watt wanting to turn our country into one big desert, Palin would be a conservative dream-come-true to oversee our nation's environment.

How stupid does a person have to be to qualify as a conservative?

[dogday]

101. The beaches in Texas always have brown water. It looks like

someone took a big dump in the ocean. It really is a shame what we are doing to the gulf.

[earth mom]

104. OMFG!!! This is horrific!!! Meanwhile Obama still wants to drill!

We need a president who gives a damn about the environment and our planet!!!

[underpants]

115. He threw them a bone because he knew it wouldn't happen

the LAST thing oil companies want to do is change the current situation. They have control of the final tap (for most oil) and they like it just the way it is. Does any of us really think that they want to sink (sorry) that much into capital? Does anyone think that if there was an expansion WE wouldn't pay for it?


The nuclear idea is actually a good one. Thankfully there was a halt on construction until we got to better reactors. But the oil drilling is never going to fly and he knows it.

[Politicub]

106. This could become the worst man-made environmental disaster EVER

They are no closer to closing this well as they were the moment the oil rig collapsed.

I'm so angry right now that so many Americans are resistant to making just a handful of sacrifices to reduce our collective dependence on oil. It will be the undoing of the planet.

Of course, BP, Halliburton (serioulsy? Is this the most evil company on the planet?), and every other company involved with this will get off scott free.

IMHO, this is criminal negligence and the leadership of all companies involved should rot behind bars.

[BrklynLiberal]

107. and they should have to do it in a tshirt, jeans and sneakers,no gloves, no masks,nothing to protect

them from the mess they have been so supportive of creating.

[stevenleser]

108. HUGE K&R n/t

[BrightKnight]

114. Delta National Wildlife Refuge, Brenton National Refuge,

Pass-A-Loutre, Bret on National Wildlife Refuge, Sandhill Crane National Wildlife Refuge, Gulf Islands National Seashore Antional Park, Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge, Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge...

[GreenTea]

119. Thanks Bill Maher - Republicans mantra always, corporations profits above safety or regulations.

fuck the environment, fuck the workers, safety & oversight. To republicans corporations profits are far more important that anything else and safety precautions would cost corporations money, safety precautions cost corporations money....they want all the profit but will never accept any responsibility....Fuck the environment, fuck workers & safety...and fuck foresight...it would cost the corporations a tiny fraction of their profits, yet the republican will have none of that.

[Enthusiast]

130. That's the Republicans. nt

[ooglymoogly]

128. For all our leaders in big oil's pocket, the mantra should now be

shill baby shill.

[DailyGrind51]

133. New Progressive slogan: "'Drill, Baby Drill' then YOU pay the bill!