Good Christian and real American Sarah Palin is full of sludge. She now blames "extreme environmentalists" and "Extreme Greenies" for the BP oil spill, saying that it's their fault that BP had to drill in deep waters because the environmentalists have blocked drilling onshore in places like ANWR, and environmentalist are forcing oil companies to move their jobs to other countries where they can pollute the earth worse than they do here. She posted her manifestos on Twitter and Facebook (where the comments are frightening).
The former half-term governor is also using Twitter to get her message out: "Extreme Greenies:see now why we push"drill,baby,drill"of known reserves&promising finds in safe onshore places like ANWR? Now do you get it?"
There's nothing to get. On Planet Sarah that tweet might make sense, but here on Earth, which is spewing the lifeblood of the 2008 Republican National Convention into the Gulf of Mexico at a unprecedented rate, "Drill, Baby, Drill" and all Sarah's lies that offshore drilling was safe indicate a different truth: the Republicans are on the wrong side of history (again). They are letting big oil lace their pockets to the detriment of the American people and future generations, chaining them to an early twentieth century technology rather than moving into the twenty-first century.
The goal of environmentalists is not to outsource U.S. jobs but to create an entire army (to put it in Sister Sarah's Tea Party tongue) of new, green jobs that are both good for the American working class as well as for the environment, and the technology developed here can be used in other parts of the world to curb pollution there as well.
By the way Sarah, you and your oil drilling brood aren't about the wealth of middle class Americans. BP stands for British Petroleum. The billions of dollars of tax cuts you provide them are putting hardworking Americans' tax dollars (including those of the eleven people killed on the Deepwater Horizon) into British bank accounts. You are a traitor to the American Revolution and the War of 1812.
Secondly, if onshore drilling is so safe, then how do Palin and drill-happy folks account for the third largest oil spill on the trans-Alaska pipeline that just took place last week. The cause of this spill was a scheduled test, which resulted in a power loss, and the spill. That sounds like reliable technology. I reckon they failed the test, and FYI, BP is the largest shareholder in the pipeline.
Finally, there's just no credible way to recant on "Drill, Baby, Drill." No matter how they spin it, Palin, McCain, Romney and the others can't pass the oil-laced buck on this one. There are just too many sound bytes.
Image from Politico.
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