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Sarah Palin Implicates Environmentalists For BP Oil Spill on Facebook
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIf "extreme environmentalists" were not successful in prohibiting land based oil drilling in the United States, then companies like BP would not have to resort to looking for oil in the deep oceans. It's an argument that's been made recently by the likes of conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer. And now, the same "blame-environmentalists-for-the-Gulf-oil-spill" conclusion is the one that former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is pushing on her Facebook page. This afternoon, Ms. Palin lashed out at those who seek to protect the environment from the evils of oil drilling in a post titled, ...
Sarah Palin 'Energy Expert'
By David Knowles - Politics DailyJohn McCain likes to lavish Sarah Palin with high praise. OK, it's a running-mate thing. Obama does it with Biden, too. But over the course of the last few weeks, the Arizona Senator, in his bid to introduce the country to Palin, has done his best to portray her as a reformer, a maverick, an enemy of earmarks, a singularly ethical person, and on and on. As each one of McCain's assertions has been shown to be less than credible, Palin's unfavorable ratings have steadily gone south. Truly, an unkonwn commodity is more valuable than one we have the opportunity to evaluate.But of all the hyperbole ...
McCain/Palin: Team of Rivals
By David Knowles - Politics DailyIn her much acclaimed biography of Abraham Lincoln, Team of Rivals, Doris Kearns Goodwin chronicles the relationship between Lincoln and three of his advisers--William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, and Edward Bates. None of them men was particularly fond of Lincoln, thinking him something of an inexperienced hick. But Lincoln, as described by Goodwin, followed to the adage, "Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer," and gave each of his critics a job in his administration.In our current presidential campaign we're seeing a similar dynamic in play. This time, however, the would-be ...
Palin Re-Energizes McCain Campaign
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailySen. John McCain surprised even seasoned political observers today with his selection of first term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Palin was not mentioned on any short lists for the Vice-Presidential nomination, although her name has been floated in conservative circles for some time. The pick has brought a new energy to the McCain campaign and to its supporters, and has completely squelched the buzz in the media following Sen. Barack Obama's glitzy acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention last night. The first rule of picking a running mate is do no harm. Last ...
McCain Opening to ANWR Drilling?
By Dave - Politics DailyIt's not a flip yet, but it does show McCain could bring even more pressure on the Democrats over domestic energy issues: In an interview with THE WEEKLY STANDARD aboard his campaign plane last week, McCain made clear he has not ruled out a change in his position--to one that endorses drilling in ANWR. "I continue to examine it," he said. So does his staff. McCain's campaign has been quietly studying the ANWR issue and discussing the potential consequences--good and bad--of a policy change. But in our conversation on August 13, McCain added a new wrinkle. When I asked him if he had consulted ...
The Price Point for Drilling
By Dave - Politics DailySorry about being a sort of one trick pony with my last few posts about drilling, but it is the salient political issue of the summer and it is generating a lot of good political theater. This one is from Mitch McConnell, who ran this little maneuver yesterday: Obviously this is political theater, Ken Salazar was certainly not going to agree on behalf of the entire Democratic party to drill at a set price. In fact his only role here is to represent his party to stop anything real from happening. But Mitch McConnell takes the opportunity to point out that the current Democratic position ...
Obama Says Don't Drill, Inflate!
By Dave - Politics DailyThis has been popular in the right side of the blogosphere today: It's a good line of attack as it goes for a nice two-fer. Painting Obama as clueless to the fuel woes of ordinary Americans while focusing attention to the Democrats stonewall on Domestic drilling. And on the math he is wrong, as Powerline points out: Just for fun, I did the math. Properly inflating your tires can improve gas mileage by 3%. Of course, many people already keep their tires properly inflated, and many more are at least close to being properly inflated. Let's be generous and assume that one-half of the total ...
Media Shocker: Oil Industry Backs McCain
By Dave - Politics DailyNo, really:Oil and gas industry executives and employees donated $1.1 million to McCain last month -- three-quarters of which came after his June 16 speech calling for an end to the ban -- compared with $116,000 in March, $283,000 in April and $208,000 in May. ... "The timing was significant," said David Donnelly, the national campaigns director of the Public Campaign Action Fund, a nonpartisan campaign finance reform group that conducted the analysis of McCain's oil industry contributions. "This is a case study of how a candidate can change a policy position in the interest of raising ...
Congressional GOPers in Alaska
By Dave - Politics DailyWhile Obama is fact-finding in Iraq, a congressional GOP delegation is in Alaska, highlighting the plight of the caribou pointing out that we have $1 trillion dollars worth of oil in them thar hills. From the KC Star: "It's still a long road," said Steve Hansen, a GOP spokesman on the House Natural Resources Committee, where Rep. Don Young of Alaska has long pushed for drilling. "But right now the chances for opening ANWR for drilling are better than they have been for years." Would more drilling in Alaska, in the end, move prices at the pump? Barely, suggest experts. Still, geologists ...
Drilling Fever
By David Knowles - Politics DailyWith the price of gasoline topping $5 a gallon in some parts of the country, America suddenly finds itself gripped by what might be called "drilling fever." Yesterday, the president reversed his father's executive ban on exploratory drilling on the Outer Continental Shelf, and urged Congress to ditch the legislative restrictions that have kept the oil rigs within a limited parameter off our coasts. Here in Florida, a state often mentioned as a prime candidate for future drilling, the idea of drilling is a hot topic in Republican circles. Two nights ago, I listened in on a telephone "town hall" ...
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