Drill Baby Drill................Repubican Convention Chant

[louis c]

Here we go..

The Republican Governors of Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi and Florida (I know, Charlie Crist is the only exception) should be proud when the tape of their chanting in 2008 becomes public. I'm sure they were in the crowd here somewhere.

Drill Baby Drill link;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRtuKGS-QXU&feature=related

[Uncle Joe]

1. This needs to be associated with lots of Gulf Coast Pics.

Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, louis:thumbsup:

[kskiska]

2. As per Dave Letterman…

"How's that offshore drilling thing workin' out for ya?"

[louis c]

3. How's it feel, Jendl, Barbour and Riley?...Drill Baby Drill

Explain that ot the folks who rely on fishing and tourism on you coasts. Tell them how great "Drill Baby Drill" is for them. Vote Republican and Eat Your Words, because now you have no food on your tables. The big oil guys will be OK and the Politicians will end up just fine, but the little guy gets fucked again, only this time they asked for it. Get why you always vote in your own best interest and don't fall for that right wing bullshit? Drill Baby Drill. Nice going, assholes.

[tavalon]

7. Let me tell you a story about David Letterman

I can't remember if he said this just after 9/11 or in the run up to the bogus war but this is a paraphrase: Just remember folks, when you write the check for all of this, it's spelled with two LLs
as he held up a giant check for billions of dollars made out to Halliburton. That was at a time when Halliburton and Bechtel and Blackwater/Xe were not well known. But I knew and he gained a forever fan then.

[Uncle Joe]

4. Kicked for the 6:45 CST crowd. n/t

[flyarm]

5. Obama: “Oil Rigs Today Generally Don’t Cause Spills”

Obama: “Oil Rigs Today Generally Don’t Cause Spills”

Obama Repeats Katrina Oil Spill Myth To Defend Offshore Drilling

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm8gLmuTvJ4&feature=player_embedded


By: David Dayen Thursday April 29, 2010 1:42 pm

snip:

What a difference 18 days makes. Here was Barack Obama, on April 2, before the BP oil rig disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, claiming that oil rigs are safe to justify his position on offshore drilling:

I don’t agree with the notion that we shouldn’t do anything. It turns out, by the way, that oil rigs today generally don’t cause spills. They are technologically very advanced. Even during Katrina, the spills didn’t come from the oil rigs, they came from the refineries onshore.

Not only does this quote look ridiculous in hindsight, it wasn’t true at the time, as Brad Johnson points out:

Obama’s claim that oil rigs did not cause any spills during Hurricane Katrina is simply false, as the Wonk Room reported in June, 2008, when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and other conservatives made the same false claim:

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Caused 124 Offshore Spills For A Total Of 743,700 Gallons. 554,400 gallons were crude oil and condensate from platforms, rigs and pipelines, and 189,000 gallons were refined products from platforms and rigs.

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Caused Six Offshore Spills Of 42,000 Gallons Or Greater. The largest of these was 152,250 gallons, well over the 100,000 gallon threshhold considered a “major spill.”

http://news.firedoglake.com/2010/04/29/obama-oil-rigs-today-generally-don’t-cause-spills/

[louis c]

6. When ever a Dem President compromises with repukes, we lose

NAFTA, GAT, Clinton.

now this. When we move right we get fucked. Stay with the Democratic agenda and we win. Very simple

[flyarm]

8. in this case our entire eco system pays..our marine life pays..our fisheries pay and in the end

what will be left to the people of the world for decades???????

We who live on the gulf have warned about this for decades..we dems here in Fla fought the fuckers off as hard as we could..and no one was listening...

Even here on DU, when we dems were saying drilling would kill our eco system..were were mocked and basically told to go to the other room and stfu..by those with Blind Obedience..when our very own democratic president told us to go fuck off, after promising us before his election there would be no new drilling..all for power and greed of the very few on this earth..all for a vote..well now..who is going to collect the dead birds on my beach..where are those with blind obedience now? and who are they paid by? and what is their motives..those questions need to be asked and they need to be answered.

I am someone who fought to keep lights off our beaches for the Turtles to be able to lay their eggs and go back out to sea..what for ..I keep asking myself..they are mostly going to die now..and they will be extinct for future generations..my grand children will never get to see these incredible creatures..

Last night on our local news..they said the Grouper would be severly effected because they lay 600 ft under water..and the oil will settle there first..

When I and others warned of that here and begged for help calling Obama and begging him to not allow drilling..we were mocked and lies and propaganda were told ..right here..on a democratic board.

I do not blame this spill on Obama..but he was willing to become part and parcel of the problem for greed..and power..and the sooner people realize we no longer have two parties..but one big party with one big money pot in the middle the sooner we will regain this country by and for the people!

And for those who are the blind obediant..fuck you!

They sure as hell are not democrats I recognise!

[spanone]

9. kicked and recommended....i guess our media doesn't have access to youtube

or perhaps they have no interest in irony

[spanone]

10. keep kicked all day long

[louis c]

11. Thanks for the kick and kind words