Palin Attempts To ‘Turn The Page’ From The Economy Back To ‘Drill Baby Drill’
Palin Attempts To ‘Turn The Page’ From The Economy Back To ‘Drill Baby Drill’
The Washington Post reported this weekend that the McCain campaign’s new strategy is “turning the page” on the economic crisis, with a focus on character issues. “If we keep talking about the economic crisis, we’re going to lose,” another aide admitted.
Apparently, another one of the campaign’s strategies is also to shift back to energy. Today at a rally in Florida, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) claimed that the “value of your paycheck is going down” simply “because of the high cost of energy”:
High gas prices, they are making a full tank of a gas seem like such a luxury. The cost of groceries is going up. All across the board, the cost of living is going up. Everything is. But the value of your paycheck is going down, and that’s because of the high cost of energy.
Palin then pushed for her “all of the above” approach to energy, to which the crowd shouted, “Drill baby drill!” Watch it:
For the past few months, conservatives have tried to peg all of the nation’s economic woes to high energy costs and offshore drilling. President Bush, for example, recently exploited Hurricane Gustav to push for drilling in the Outer Continental Shelf. T. Boone Pickens has expressed frustration with these drill-only conservatives. “Having a little problem working with the Republicans. They don’t like it because I want to do more than just drill,” he said last month.
While high energy costs are certainly a problem, it is neither the primary nor the only factor affecting “the value of your paycheck,” as Palin seemed to have claimed. In February, The Nation cited three primary reasons: “First hourly wage growth has slowed for the 80 percent of US workers who aren’t managers. Second, inflation is picking up, driven largely by higher prices for gas and heating. And third, employers are cutting back on hours.”
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“Drill, baby drill”, she said passionately.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:11 pmOh, Jesus H. Christ on a Pogo Stick! They really are fresh out of ideas, aren’t they?
October 7th, 2008 at 8:13 pmHigh gas prices, they are making a full tank of a gas seem like such a luxury. The cost of groceries is going up. All across the board, the cost of living is going up. Everything is. But the value of your paycheck is going down, and that’s because of the high cost of energy.
So why not fund a “Manhattan Project” with a new energy source as its objective , rather than enrich those who are already wealthy beyond imagination because of a dirty finite fuel source and continue advocating screwing up the planet even further in search of it , you stupid slob ?
October 7th, 2008 at 8:15 pmHeh.
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/nation/ny-usike065872140oct06,0,333555.story
Who wants to bet they won’t talk about THAT ;-)
These drilling supporters – what do they think there’s going to be *less* accidents in the future? Oh right, the climate isn’t changing, we’re not getting more hurricanes than normal. Nothing to see here, move along please.
Except, whoops, that’s wrong too
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/309/5742/1844
October 7th, 2008 at 8:15 pmDo you think that Bible Spice has “Drill, baby drill” printed on her panties?
October 7th, 2008 at 8:31 pmWait a minute. Weren’t they saying, last week, that poor people buying houses was the cause of all our ills?
October 7th, 2008 at 8:35 pmChanting “Drill baby drill” to solve the energy crisis is like chanting “Burn the witch! Burn her!” to rid a town of crimes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrzMhU_4m-g
October 7th, 2008 at 8:40 pm“Excuse me, but I’d like to change the subject before you remember I changed the subject yesterday because I couldn’t defend the subject that I changed from the day before that and……”
This woman is a symbol of the entire campiagn: it is a ship lost at sea, with no captain and no sails and a broken rudder. The waves are crashing in, all around, and the crew is below decks, having caviar and champagne.
It is all remarkably unremarkable and grossly disappointing.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:40 pmT. Boone Pickens has expressed frustration with these drill-only conservatives. “Having a little problem working with the Republicans. They don’t like it because I want to do more than just drill,” he said last month.
It’s like trying to teach a spherical concept to a group of block-heads.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:43 pmpete Says:
Wait a minute. Weren’t they saying, last week, that poor people buying houses was the cause of all our ills?
Not all poor people Pete, just the ones who have that icky dark stuff all over their bodies.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:46 pm“But the value of your paycheck is going down, and that’s because of the high cost of energy.”
And the crowd screams: “Drill baby drill”?
These people are morons.
All this is about is some extra pocket money for the bush clan and their cronies.
You voted an oil man for president, America, you don’t expect him to promote alternatives to that ancient energy source?
USA, you get what you deserve. In spades.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:46 pmI don’t wish to be insensitive to the beauty of the feminine but who exactly is it that declared this one a hottie. I just don’t see it.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:47 pmIf we’re half as smart as we think we are, we won’t need that oil in ten years, when it finally becomes available.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:47 pmBy the way, if anyone is interested, I just blogged about why the value of your wages is going down, down, down.
Timely, I guess.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pmGas demand is down 9.5% from last year.
Prices are up 24.5%
Repugs lied to the American people about supply and demand. Write your legislator and demand an answer. Write George W. and demand an answer.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pmWhen McCain first introduced her I thought she was really attractive.
Then she opened her mouth..
October 7th, 2008 at 8:48 pmdbadass, her voice sound like scraping razor blades across a blackboard or a pig’s behind, can’t figure out which.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pmIn my case, dbadass, I read her bio before I saw her picture. Ugly clear to the bone.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:52 pmKinda funny when Palin says “It will require developing new alternative energy sources” and the crowd responds “Uuuh… Yeah! Drill baby drill!! Drill baby drill!!”
Its like a South Park episode
October 7th, 2008 at 8:53 pm“Dick Cheney and I do not want this nation to be in a recession. We want anybody who can find work to be able to find work.” –George W. Bush, 60 minutes II, CBS, December 5, 2000
“I’m confident we can work with Congress to come up with an economic stimulus package that will send a clear signal to the risk takers and capital formators of our country.” —George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 17, 2001
“My plan reduces the national debt, and fast. So fast, in fact, that economists worry that we’re going to run out of debt to retire.” —George W. Bush, radio address, Feb. 24, 2001
“Recession means that people’s incomes, at the employer level, are going down, basically, relative to costs, people are getting laid off.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Feb. 19, 2004
October 7th, 2008 at 8:54 pm“Americans should be prudent in their use of energy during the course of the next few weeks. Don’t buy gas if you don’t need it.” –George W. Bush, Washington, D.C., Sept. 1, 2005
October 7th, 2008 at 8:56 pmShe needs a lesson in economics 101.
October 7th, 2008 at 8:59 pmFrom a runnerup beauty queen to a rabblerousing BrownSkirt in only twenty-four short years. Heck of a career, Brownskirt.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:01 pmThis woman is inciting violence and she must be stopped. The Secret Service needs to stop this now.
October 7th, 2008 at 9:21 pmWith the credit for speculation dried up the alot of the air went out of the oil balloon. That dog just doesn’t hunt and should be showed up for the bankrupt idea that it is?
October 7th, 2008 at 9:22 pmI sort of think that the best assessment of the hotness of a woman is best the consensus of their female peers… Just Kidding. That is just an equation for sheer chaos
October 7th, 2008 at 11:19 pmThe drilling ban expired without any Democratic resistance. This is not longer an issue. She can drill all she wants and keep our oil addiction alive. The dumb bimbo doesn’t read the news as we all know. She keeps recycling stuff that’s already been said. I can’t wait until the elections over and this bimbo goes back to her igloo in Alaska.
October 7th, 2008 at 11:49 pmjust some reminders regarding “drill baby drill” while being forced to live in denial of global warming…
http://skytruth.mediatools.org/node/19981
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/14/hurricane-ike-destroys-oil-platforms-in-gulf-of-mexico/
October 8th, 2008 at 12:24 amIf one should want to be president or vice president from now on, they really should have to pass a rigorous test of their intelligence to do so. If every high school student has to have a certain GPA with a SAT and/or ACT score to get into specific colleges, at least our leaders should know how to answer a question and form a phrase that makes sense.
If anyone thinks Sarah Palin and George W. Bush represent the “best of what America has to offer”, we have not only failed those who think that, but have truly failed as a nation to keep our politics out of the hands of chimps wearing high heels & lipstick, whom carry guns and fire wildly at themselves and others while messing themselves over banana crucifixes. All in the name of jingoist principles learned from party officials, speech coaches and assorted other corrupt officials who put greed over country.
October 8th, 2008 at 3:14 amTake it off, take it all o ff, Baby.
I think Al Davis of the Oakland Raiders football team.
” Just win, baby “
October 8th, 2008 at 4:02 amThe Battle Plan II: Sarah “Evita” Palin, the Muse of the Coming Police State
Please understand what you are looking at when you look at Sarah “Evita” Palin. You are looking at the designated muse of the coming American police state.
You have to understand how things work in a closing society in order to understand “Palin Power.” A gang or cabal seizes power, usually with an affable, weak figurehead at the fore. Then they will hold elections — but they will make sure that the election will be corrupted and that the next affable, weak figurehead is entirely in their control. Remember, Russia has Presidents; Russia holds elections. Dictators and gangs of thugs all over the world hold elections. It means nothing. When a cabal has seized power you can have elections and even presidents, but you don’t have freedom.
I realized early on with horror what I was seeing in Governor Palin: the continuation of the Rove-Cheney cabal, but this time without restraints. I heard her echo Bush 2000 soundbites (”the heart of America is on display”) and realized Bush’s speechwriters were writing her — not McCain’s — speeches. I heard her tell George Bush’s lies — not McCain’s — to the American people, linking 9/11 to Iraq. I heard her make fun of Barack Obama for wanting to prevent the torture of prisoners — this is Rove-Cheney’s enthusiastic S and M, not McCain’s, who, though he shamefully colluded in the 2006 Military Tribunals Act, is also a former prisoner of war and wrote an eloquent Newsweek piece in 2005 opposing torture. I saw that she was even styled by the same skillful stylist (neutral lipstick, matte makeup, dark colors) who turned Katharine Harris from a mall rat into a stateswoman and who styles all the women in the Bush orbit –but who does not bother to style Cindy McCain.
Then I saw and heard more. Palin is embracing lawlessness in defying Alaskan Legislature subpoenas –this is what Rove-Cheney, and not McCain, believe in doing. She uses mafia tactics against critics, like the police commissioner who was railroaded for opposing handguns in Alaskan battered women’s shelters — Rove’s style, not McCain’s. I realized what I was seeing.
Reports confirmed my suspicions: Palin, not McCain, is the FrankenBarbie of the Rove-Cheney cabal. The strategy became clear. Time magazine reported that Rove is “dialed in” to the McCain campaign. Rove’s protégé Steve Schmidt is now campaign manager. And Politico reported that Rove was heavily involved in McCain’s vice presidential selection. Finally a new report shows that there are dozens of Bush and Rove operatives surrounding Sarah Palin and orchestrating her every move.
What’s the plan? It is this. McCain doesn’t matter. Reputable dermatologists are discussing the fact that in simply actuarial terms, John McCain has a virulent and life-threatening form of skin cancer. It is the elephant in the room, but we must discuss the health of the candidates: doctors put survival rates for someone his age at two to four years. I believe the Rove-Cheney cabal is using Sarah Palin as a stalking horse, an Evita figure, to put a popular, populist face on the coming police state and be the talk show hostess for the end of elections as we know them. If McCain-Palin get in, this will be the last true American election. She will be working for Halliburton, KBR, Rove and Cheney into the foreseeable future — for a decade perhaps — a puppet “president” for the same people who have plundered our treasure, are now holding the US economy hostage and who murdered four thousand brave young men and women in a way of choice and lies.
How, you may ask, can I assert this? How can I argue, as I now do, that there is actually a war being ramped up against US citizens and our democracy and that Sarah Palin is the figurehead and muse for that war?
Look at the RNC. This is supposed to be McCain’s America. But you see the unmistakable theatre of Rove’s S and M imagery — and you see stages eight, nine and ten of the steps to a dictatorship as I outlined them in The End of America. Preemptive arrest? Abusive arrest? “Newly released footage, which was buried to avoid confiscation, shows riot cops arresting and abusing a giant group of people for nothing.”
Journalists were arrested — for reporting. Amy Goodman and ABC producers were arrested. Jane Hamsher of Firedoglake and others were forced to lie face down as armed agents tied their hands behind their backs. The riot police wore the black S&M gear of the Rovian fantasy life and carried the four foot batons cops carry in North Korea. All this is not John McCain’s imagery or strategy: it is Karl Rove’s.
In McCain-Palin’s America, citizens who are protesting are being charged as terrorists. This means that a violent war had been declared on American citizens. A well known reporter leaked to me on background that St Paul police had dressed as protesters and, dressed in Black — shades of the Blackshirts of 1920 — infiltrated protest groups. There were also phalanxes of men in black wearing balaclavas, linking arms and behaving menacingly — alleged “anarchists.” Let me tell you, I have been on the left for thirty years and you can’t get three lefties to wear the same t-shirt to a rally, let alone link arms and wear identical face masks: these are not our guys. Agent Provocateurs framing protesters and calling protest “terrorism” constitutes step ten of a police state:
“In what appears to be the first use of criminal charges under the 2002 Minnesota version of the Federal Patriot Act, Ramsey County Prosecutors have formally charged 8 alleged leaders of the RNC Welcoming Committee with Conspiracy to Riot in Furtherance of Terrorism… [they] 7 1/2 years in prison under the terrorism enhancement charge which allows for a 50% increase in the maximum penalty.”
“Paid, confidential informants… infiltrated the RNCWC on behalf of law enforcement. They allege that members of the group sought to kidnap delegates to the RNC, assault police officers with firebombs and explosives, and sabotage airports in St. Paul. Evidence released to date does not corroborate these allegations with physical evidence or provide any other evidence for these allegations than the claims of the informants. Based on past abuses of such informants by law enforcement, the National Lawyers Guild is concerned that such police informants have incentives to lie and exaggerate threats of violence and to also act as provocateurs in raising and urging support for acts of violence.”
Under the Palin-Rove police state, you will see escalating infringements on your access to a free internet:
“Sarah Palin was baptized at Wasilla Assembly of God…Last Sunday our research team released a video, a ten-minute mini-documentary, focusing on the Wasilla Assemblies of God and the video seemed on the verge of a massive “viral” breakthrough when YouTube pulled it down, citing ‘inappropriate content’. At the point the video was censored by YouTube it had been viewed by almost 160,000 people. The short of it is that YouTube has censored a video documentary that appeared to be close to having an effect on a hard fought and contentious American presidential election…”
Under the coming Palin-Rove police state, you will witness the plans now underway to bring Iraqi troops to patrol the streets of our nation. This is not McCain’s fantasy: it is Rove’s and Cheney’s.
Under the Palin-Rove police state, there will be no further true elections. Mark Crispin Miller has done sensational and under-reported investigating t o establish that — as I warned — indeed the GOP staffers on the US Senate Judiciary Committee have been .
The evidence is also buried on the Website of the Majority House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
WASHINGTON — Republican staff members of the US Senate Judiciary Commitee infiltrated opposition computer files for a year, monitoring secret strategy memos and periodically passing on copies to the media, Senate officials told The Globe. >From the spring of 2002 until at least April 2003, members of the GOP committee staff exploited a computer glitch that allowed them to access restricted Democratic communications witho ut a password. Trolling through hundreds of memos, they were able to read talking points and accounts of private meetings discussing which judicial nominees Democrats would fight — and with what tactics.
– “Senate panel’s GOP staff spied on Democrats” By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | January 22, 2004
Do you think that spying like this will ever end under a Palin-Rove regime? Dream on. If she and McCain are elected, then every single strategy memo and speech and debate prep note from every opposition candidate from now and on into forever will be read by the regime in power while it is still in the computers of the challengers.
Under the Palin-Rove police state, citizens will be targeted with state cyberterrorism. Bruce Fein of the American Freedom Agenda, a former Reagan official, warned me three years ago that the Bush team went after a Republican who had crossed them through cyberstalking: they messed with his email, messed with his phones and I believe messed with his bank account — he became a cyber-pariah, unemployable and haunted. With modern technology, there really is less place to hide from the state than there was in East Germany in the Cold War era. I remember feeling a chill: of course. That is the wave of the future once we breach the protections around citizens of FISA and the fourth amendment. That way lies the abyss for us all.
Am I trying to scare you? I am. I am trying to scare you to death and ask you to scare your Republican and independent friends most of all. How do you know when it is war on citizens? When there are mass arrests, journalists are jailed, the opposition is infiltrated, rights are stripped and leaders start to ignore the rule of law.
Almost everyone I work with on projects related to this campaign for liberty has been experiencing computer harassment: emails are stripped, messages disappear. That’s not all: people’s bank accounts are being tampered with: wire transfers to banks vanish in midair. I personally keep opening bank accounts that are quickly corrupted by fraud. Money vanishes. Coworkers of mine have to keep opening new email accounts as old ones become infected. And most disturbingly to me personally is the mail tampering I have both heard of and experienced firsthand. My tax returns vanished from my mailbox. All my larger envelopes arrive ripped straight open apparently by hand. When I show the postman, he says “That’s impossible.” Horrifyingly to me is the impact on my family. My childrens’ report cards are returned again and again though perfectly addressed; their invitations are turned back; and my daughters many letters from camp? Vanished. All of them. Not one arrived. Try explaining that to a smart thirteen year old. Try explaining it in a way that still makes her feel secure and comfortable.
I am not telling you this because it’s about my life. I am telling you this because it is about your life — whoever you are, Conservative or Liberal, independent or evangelical. Your politics will not protect you in a police state. History shows that nothing portects you in a police state. This is not about my fear and anxiety: it is about what awaits you and everyone you love unless you see this for what it is:
Scharansky divided nations into “fear societies” and “free societies.” Make no mistake: Sarah “Evita” Palin is Rove and Cheney’s cosmetic rebranding of their fascist push: she will help to establish a true and irreversible “fear society” in this once free once proud nation. For God’s sake, do not let her; do not let them.
October 8th, 2008 at 8:32 amI could make a joke about “drill baby drill”, but I’ll resist the temptation!
October 8th, 2008 at 9:55 am