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Palin Hurls 'Terrifyingly Naive' Attack At Obama

Posted 04.18.2012

Read More: Video, Green Energy, Fracking, Drill Baby Drill, Sarah Palin Energy, Obama Energy, Sarah Palin Obama, Sarah Palin, Politics News

Sarah Palin is blasting President Obama's energy policies again, taking issue with remarks he made Tuesday in an attempt to curb oil market manipulati...

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The Idea That Drilling Can Cure Unemployment Is A Joke

The New York Times | Paul Krugman | Posted 03.16.2012

Read More: Gas Prices, Oil Drilling, Environmentalists, President Obama, Mitt Romney, Gop, Stephen Moore, Gulf of Mexico, Drill Baby Drill, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, Politics News

To be a modern Republican in good standing, you have to believe — or pretend to believe — in two miracle cures for whatever ails the economy: more...

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Not a Good Week for Big Oil

Carl Pope | Posted 07.20.2011

Read More: Tea Party, Big Oil, Bp, Oil Subsidies, Olympia Snowe, Exxon Mobil, Phillips Oil, Chevron, Drill Baby Drill, Shell Oil, Politics News
Carl Pope

The Big Five oil companies -- Exxon-Mobil, Chevron, Shell, BP and Phillips -- may be hoping that the end of the world actually occurs on May 21. Then they can say proudly that they went out bloodied but unbowed.

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The Gospel Of Protecting The Environment

Rev. Chuck Currie | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Global Warming, Climate Change, Environment, Focus on the Family, Budget Deficit, Environmental Protection Agency, Budget Cuts, Christians and Environmentalism, Christian Environmentalism, Drill Baby Drill, Care for Creation, Environmental Activism, EPA Budget Cuts, Religion News
Rev. Chuck Currie

We must continue to lift our voices in opposition to those who would harm the environment. The Gospel of Sarah Palin cannot be allowed to overcome to teachings contained in Scripture.

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Smoke Baby, Smoke!

Scott Edwards | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Wind Power, Massey Energy, Solar Energy, Smoking, Don Blankenship, Oil Drilling, James Inhofe, Climate Science, Sarah Palin, Wind Energy, Climate Change Denial, Climate Change, Global Warming Hoax, Drill Baby Drill, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Scott Edwards

Fossil fuels are to our ecosystems what cigarettes are to our human body systems.

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Is Carly Fiorina Really Sarah Palin?

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, California, Carly Fiorina, Drill Baby Drill, Sarah Palin, The Senate, Politics News
Robert Greenwald

"I support offshore drilling." With this position, Carly Fiorina is falling in line with her 'Drill, Baby, Drill' comrades and continues her work to become the Sarah Palin of California.

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27,000 Potential Leaks

Al Gore | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Oil Drilling, Drilling, Oil, Climate Change, Al Gore, Climate Crisis, Drill Baby Drill, Global Warming, Offshore Drilling, Green News
Al Gore

These are 27,000 potential environmental catastrophes waiting to happen. We need action now -- not only to make sure these wells are safe, but also to move away from fossil fuels, so no more wells need to be drilled.

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Drill, Gamble, Loot, Starve: The Chamber of Commerce, the GOP, and the Politics of Plunder

Richard (RJ) Eskow | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jon Kyl, US Chamber of Commerce, Drill Baby Drill, Republican Party, Financial Reform, Business News
Richard (RJ) Eskow

The US Chamber of Commerce has released an "open letter" to the President, Congress, and the American people which contains its blueprint for our political future. It reads like the battle plan for those alien spaceships from Independence Day.

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The Choice: Drill, Baby, Drill or American Values. You Can't Have Both

Hal Donahue | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: American Values Network, Department of Defense, Military, American Power Act, US Senate, Sarah Palin, Clean Energy Jobs and American Power Act, Green Energy, Drill Baby Drill, Senate-Energy-Committee, Offshore Drilling, Deepwater Horizon, Oil Spill, Politics News
Hal Donahue

In the wake of the greatest environmental disaster in the nation's history, America needs a smarter approach to energy policy, not a futile pep rally chant and continued funding for the enemies of our way of life.

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"Drill, Baby, Drill?" That's What Got Us Into This Oily Mess

Brian Keane | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cape Cod, Cape Wind Project, BP Oil Spill 2010, BP Oil Spill, Rfk Jr, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ted Kennedy, Cape Wind, Offshore Drilling, Drill Baby Drill, Green News
Brian Keane

As Americans, we're lucky to have the choices that come with prosperity. It shouldn't take an epic man-made disaster like the BP oil spill to help us make the right ones.

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Jason Linkins

GOP Senators Can't Remember This "Drill, Baby, Drill" Thing People Keep Talking About

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, Jon Kyl, Drill Baby Drill, Pat Roberts, Offshore Drilling, Gulf Oil Spill 2010, Eat the Press, Politics News

At some point in the past, you may have gained a passing familiarity with this catchy, chantable little phrase, "Drill, Baby, Drill." It was sort of semi-ubiquitous, remember? It was pretty much one of the three or four things that everyone who watched the McCain campaign understood as an actual, sort of, policy that the Arizona Senator supported. But maybe it is just a trick of memory! Because with gallons of oil floating around in the Gulf of Mexico as a backdrop, Senators Jon Kyl and Pat Roberts are basically telling reporters, "Drill, baby, drill? Was that, like, a thing?"

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Are More Oil Spills Inevitable?

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: President Obama, Science, Energy Policy, Drill Baby Drill, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Exxon Valdez, Offshore Drilling, Oil Spill, Elites, Middle East, Climate Change, Central Asia, Russia, Enviromentalism, Gulf of Meixo, Green News
Lincoln Mitchell

If the primary lesson which we take from this oil spill is that we should not drill for oil off of our shores, than we have missed the point.

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Sarah Palin: St8sman 4 Hire

Michael Seitzman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: British Petroleum, Gulf of Mexico, Oil Spill, Drill Baby Drill, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin Reaction, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Michael Seitzman

Okay, you're a fisherman and you've barely recovered from Katrina amd you're told that your livelihood for the foreseeable future is about to drown in a thick, toxic sludge.

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The Gulf Coast Oil Spill: An Ecological Disaster Years in the Making

Janet Ritz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Endangered Species, Business, Oil, Fauna, Science, Barack Obama, Politics, British Petroleum, Katrina, Flora, Halliburton, Gulf Oil Spill, Dick Cheney, Bp-Oil-Spill, BP Oil Spill, The Environmentalist, Louisiana Oil Spill, Energy, Oil Leak, Louisiana, Bp, Oil Rig, Deepwater Horizon, Green News, Oil Spill, Gulf Coast, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Drill Baby Drill, Green News
Janet Ritz

The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill has now reached the Gulf Coast and will likely eclipse the Exxon Valdez disaster in its impact on the ecology of th...

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Friday Talking Points [121] -- Swampy Muck

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chris Weigant

Once you get started, it becomes quite easy to justify shaking people down for their papers. I think the police should pull over anyone who looks like they work on Wall Street, at any time.

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Bill Maher Slams Obama, Oil Companies After Gulf Coast Oil Spill (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

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Bill Maher slammed President Obama Friday for supporting a repeal of the moratorium on offshore oil drilling. During the panel segment on "Real Time,...

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Drill, Baby, Drill -- or Whoops, Baby, Spill?

Carl Pope | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Deepwater Horizon, Charlie Crist, Louisiana, Mary Landrieu, Louisiana Oil Spill, Oil Spill, Drill Baby Drill, Offshore Drilling, Bp, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill, Green News
Carl Pope

If it cannot be sealed, Deepwater Horizon might eventually exceed the Exxon Valdez catastrophe. And it's happening in the heart of the most productive marine fishery in the United States.

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Oil Spills: A History Of Disaster (PHOTOS)

Huffington Post | Travis Walter Donovan | Posted 05.25.2011

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The recent disaster that occurred at a BP offshore drilling site near Louisiana--seriously injuring 17 workers, leaving 11 still missing, and leaking ...

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'Drill, Baby, Drill' Champions Silent On Gulf Oil Spill [UPDATED]

The Huffington Post | Nico Pitney | Posted 05.25.2011

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UPDATE: Palin has made her first comments on the spill, scroll down to see. More than a week has passed since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded 50 ...

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Spill, Baby, Spill! How the Left Can Win the PR War

Andy Ostroy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gop, Rep. Joe Barton, Rand Paul, Bp, Offshore Drilling Moratorium, President Obama, Rush Limbaugh, Death Panels, Rep. Michelle Bachmann, BP Oil Spill, Drill Baby Drill, Democrats, Republican Party, Sarah Palin, Politics News
Andy Ostroy

If the left's ever gonna take back control of the message, they'll need to start dumbing-down their rhetoric so that it's clearly understood by the little guy.

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Clean, Baby, Clean

Robert Greenwald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Energy, Bp, Gulf Oil Spill, Drill Baby Drill, Lobbyists, Offshore Drilling, Politics News
Robert Greenwald

The disaster in the Gulf was no accident. It was the result of years of oil money buying off politicians to lead to an unregulated and ill focused addiction to oil and drilling.

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Sarah Palin's Right: You Should Run on Energy

Heather Taylor-Miesle | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clean Energy, Energy Independence, Green Jobs, National Security, Sarah Palin, NRDC Action Fund, Economic Recovery, Drill Baby Drill, Climate Change, Climate Bill, Green News
Heather Taylor-Miesle

Over the past week, Sarah Palin encouraged Tea-Party candidates to make energy issues a central part of their campaigns. "There's nothing stopping us ...

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Cries from the Gulf (VIDEO)

Mike Papantonio | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Catastrophe, Rig, Bp, Deepwater Horizon, Lea Morris, Drill Baby Drill, Oil, Ring of Fire, Disaster, Oil Spill, Sarah Palin, Explosion, Video, Green News
Mike Papantonio

"Drill Baby Drill" Isn't that what you said? I remember the chill that ran up my spine the first time I heard it. I couldn't imagine that anything more painful would ever fall on my ears. I was wrong.

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After the Spill and the Speech

Lincoln Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Reverend Jeremiah Wright, Economic Crisis, Republicans, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf of Mexico, Drill Baby Drill, Republican Party, Barack Obama, Jeremiah Wright, Offshore Drilling, Afghanistan War, Politics News
Lincoln Mitchell

If Obama is able to achieve the goals outlined in the speech, he will have succeeded on the energy issue, but the speech itself is certainly not enough.

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Sarah Palin Demands Hardball Regulations and a Takeover of BP

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Energy, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Bobby Jindal, Haley Barbour, Sarah Palin, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, Oil, Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Gulf of Mexico, Drill Baby Drill, Politics News
Bob Cesca

Yes, seriously. Sarah Palin is in favor of the federal government planting its gigantic boot on the throats of energy companies. She put it in writing.

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