Sarah Palin: Drill-Baby-Drill Is Still Her Thing
As I mentioned earlier, Sarah Palin and other drill-happy, big-business-first, individual-rights-second conservatives lied when they said that drilling technology has advanced so much in the last 30 years that environmental catastrophes are no longer a concern. Now after the fact, they are trying to spin the BP spill as everyone’s fault but their own. And as usual, rather than demonstrating even the simple common sense of distancing oneself from failed policies that have gone wrong, they are following familiar patterns of hypocrisy by doubling down and blame shifting—a neat trick given how often they have gone on the record in favor of a completely unregulated oil industry (though you can substitute the word oil for anything that makes money). Observe:
Next, you can expect that they will be telling us that this is no time to retreat. They will say that this is the perfect time to display the old stiff upper lip and stand strong on drilling. Of course it will be hard to do otherwise since Republicans try to block any attempt at ending our dependence on petroleum even though every president for the last 40 years has listed that as a primary goal of the U.S. Aren’t there any prominent conservatives willing to embrace legislation to mandate a gradual weening-off oil?
Sarah Palin surely isn’t such a conservative judging from her writings on ‘that there Twitter box.’ Maybe someone could distract her with fishing and shotguns or offer her a position as Dr. Evil’s new sidekick since she was one of his all-time best students.
