‘Drill, Baby, Drill’ May Hinder Rethugs Effort to Taint Obama

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June 04, 2010, 3:48 AM EDT

(Updates with comment from Sarah Palin in 11th and 12th paragraph. For more on the Gulf oil spill, see {SPILL <GO>})

By Patrick O’Connor

June 4 (Bloomberg) -- Republicans’ embrace of offshore oil drilling and their skepticism of “big” government may hamper the party’s efforts to gain politically from President Barack Obama’s handling of the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour, who heads the Republican Governors Association, has said the BP Plc oil spill that followed the April 20 explosion of a deepwater rig is no reason for the U.S. to abandon offshore oil and gas exploration.

As oil washes ashore in Gulf Coast states, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, also a Republican, sent a letter to Obama this week expressing “grave concerns” with the president’s decision to suspend activity at 33 deepwater rigs.

“They’re kind of stuck because they’re the party of ’Drill, Baby, Drill,’” said David Lanoue, head of the political science department of the University of Alabama, referring to a Republican slogan during the 2008 presidential campaign. “If you’re an ambitious Republican governor, where do you go with this?”

[niceypoo]

1. "Drill baby drill" should be the Democrats theme in November

It should be hung on the GOP like a gigantic horse collar

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2. We already have some Rethugs up north here who were promoting drilling in the Great Lakes who ...

... are acting like they never pushed for it when in fact they did.

That will be a political death sentence for these good old boys.

Don

[damntexdem]

3. And everyone knows that "drill, baby, drill" became "spill, baby, spill."

This will hit home especially in states bordering the Gulf.

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4. Wonder how much ’Drill, Baby, Drill,’” video we have in the can?

I bet a lot.

Don