"Drill Baby Drill"

[Peacetrain]

Okay right wingnuts.. do not think for a second you are going to get to bury this



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drill,_baby,_drill

Drill, Baby, Drill!" was a 2008 Republican campaign slogan originally used at the 2008 Republican National Convention<1> by former Maryland Lieutenant Governor, current RNC chairman Michael Steele.<2> The slogan expressed support for increased drilling for petroleum as a source of additional energy.



http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/04/30/30greenwire-oil-spill-silences-once-raucous-drill-baby-dri-28151.html
Drill, baby, drill" is now, "Hush, baby, hush."



The Republican battle cry that crystallized the growing popularity of offshore drilling has dropped from view since the Deepwater Horizon rig sank last week and the well it drilled started shooting crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.

As Democratic opponents of the oil industry stepped up their attacks and demands for a sharp turn away from drilling, Republican leaders in Congress have slipped out of rapid-response mode and are generally holding their tongues.

A Nexis search turns up only four mentions of "drill, baby, drill" and Rudy Giuliani or Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), who drove the slogan home during the McCain's 2008 presidential campaign. Three are liberal cable hosts mocking the slogan.

[girl gone mad]

1. Sadly, our own President sided with these clowns after we put him in office.

"The decision around drilling -- same approach. What we did was we said we’re not going to have drilling a mile off the North Carolina coast or two miles off. But 50 miles off, 100 miles off, where it is appropriate and environmentally sound and not risky, we should allow exploration to begin taking place to see if there’s certain reserves.

There are some areas that we just completely put off limits, like Bristol Bay in Alaska where it’s a huge fishery, environmentally very sensitive. There are some areas off the coast in the Gulf of Mexico which don’t make sense for us to allow exploration, even though we know that there are existing reserves there.

But what we did was we tried to look at the scientific evidence and figure out where are areas where low risk environmentally and a high potential upside.

Now, here’s the last thing I’ll say about drilling, though, because what you have is, you have some environmentalists who just said, don’t drill anywhere; and then you’ve got some of my friends on the Republican side who were saying, well, this is a nice first step but it’s not enough -- you should open up everything.

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."

Words that should haunt him.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

3. Sided, I wonder?

More like taken by the scruff of the neck and told. Oil runs through the veins of Washington but not through Obama's. When one gets to Washington one finds one is 'fenced in.' I think many presidents think they are going to be 'the decider' but n fact they end up being the 'servant' whether they like it or not.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Sarah Palin's to Run on "Drill Baby Drill" Platform

Sarah Palin's to Run on "Drill Baby Drill" Platform

As predicted in this space a week or so ago, Sarah Palin is running for president on a pro-oil and gas development platform.

In the the next few months and years, assuming she doesn't flip out and self-destruct, she's going to become Ms. Drill Baby Drill.

Inevitably, she will ignore or mock global warming. She has no choice. Her whole career is predicated on business as usual, pollution as usual, fossil fuels now and forever, more and more, and devil take the hindmost. As she (or, more likely, her flack) wrote in the Washington Post today:

Many states have abundant coal, whose technology is continuously making it into a cleaner energy source. Westerners literally sit on mountains of oil and gas, and every state can consider the possibility of nuclear energy.
Wow. Forget about the strangely fractured sentence construction. Just notice the pro-coal, pro-oil and gas, pro-nuke stance. She might as well call for more for more global warming right now, instead of simply pretending the problem doesn't exist, as she does by not mentioning it once in the op-ed.

Grist's editor Russ Walker put together an answer to Palin on Grist, but to yours truly, what stands out is not Palin's misleading claims. (What else is new with her?)

What stands out is her self-centered assumption that support for fossil fuel production and consumption will make her popular, as if global warming simply isn't happening.

After all, what could matter more than this?



http://www.achangeinthewind.com/2009/07/sarah-palins-to-run-on-drill-baby-drill-platform.html

[jtrockville]

4. Landrieu, Vitter (et al) STILL chanting "Drill. baby, drill"

http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/05/alaskan_and_southern_senators.html

[amborin]

5. President Obama has picked up that same mantra!