By Brian Beutler
Forget Sarah Palin. Michael Steele enjoys the distinction of having coined the phrase “Drill, baby, drill!”
Question for Steele: If the government greenlights offshore drilling, does it get credit for creating jobs? Or does the fact that those jobs don’t exist already mean the government has “destroyed” them?

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