Posted on 05/04/2010 11:40:33 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
GOP Whip Jon Kyl (Ariz.) and Sen. Pat Roberts (Kan.) said Senate Republicans have never endorsed the phrase.
Two senior Republicans on Tuesday distanced themselves from the controversial "drill, baby, drill" phrase first used by Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele and repeated prominently by 2008 GOP vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
Speaking in the wake of a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico that might have as many political repercussions as environmental ones, GOP Whip Jon Kyl of Arizona and Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas both said Senate Republicans never endorsed the phrase. And Kyl specifically avoided referring to Steele by name.
"That was not a Senate Republican phrase," Kyl said. "I think there was a candidate that used that. I think our phrase was 'drill here, drill now,' meaning here in the United States and as quickly as oil and gas leases are going."
Roberts said Republicans were always uneasy with the catchphrase.
"I don't know about the slogan. The slogan was what, two, three years ago and basically we had a lot of opposition to it anyway."
Steele is believed to have used the phrase first in his address at the 2008 Republican National Convention in Minnesota, where the delegates took to chanting it. Conservative blogger Erik Rush also used it around the same time, and Palin employed it that October in an exchange with then-vice presidential candidate Joe Biden.
"The chant is 'drill, baby, drill,'" Palin told Biden. "And that's what we hear all across this country in our rallies because people are so hungry for those domestic sources of energy to be tapped into."
Wimps and RINO’S!!!
But let them come to us asking for money so that they can continue to “fight” for us. What a bunch of wimps. Damn rinos.
“I think our phrase was ‘drill here, drill now”
Kyle,,, you homo, is drill baby drill not an “official” repub slogan??
The entire GOP is, seriously, still in danger of eventual non-existence in the future, thanks to RINO Republicans and thanks to Establishment Republicans.
Wrong.
That statement was famously uttered at the Republican National Convention by Michael Williams, Texas State Railroad Commissioner.
He's also a black Republican, but hey, we all look alike, right? Sheeesh...
Every day it becomes even more clear why I hate “business as usual usual” politicians. They are worse than the worse than the whores on the planet.
Even I, who is very angry over this spill, understand that oil is essentially the life blood of our economy, and by extension, our wealth and security.
It is not time to throw the baby out with the bath water, repuplicant’s. It is time to solve problems, learn, prepare, and master this situation.
When the Challenger exploded, it was a tragedy, but we did not halt our space program, rather, we persevered, and that is what we must do here. Mr. Kyl, please remove your tail from between your legs.
Face palm...and epic fail
Black people who become Republicans lose their color according to lib media and Dems.
New slogan: WALK, BABY, WALK. (think any of them will actually DO this???)
Sniveling cowards.
These RINOs stuck their heads up. Lop them off in November. Spineless pandering weasels.
Ah.. The oil rig sabotage really worked! On Republicans let alone the Al Gore zombies.
I used to think Kyl was one of the good guys. After he worked to bring about amnesty, I could never look at him the same. This fits my new characterization of him. One of the wimps.
This is the Bloomburg wing of the party that is just leaving.
I once worked with a lazy guy who told me this philosophy: “Whenever you do work, you increase your chances of making a mistake. I make very few mistakes.”
Why am I not surprised.
They don’t call it “The Stupid Party” for nothing.
These 'Bloomburg Republicans' are so yellow, they carry egg yolks in their wallets for ID.
If political courage was money, they couldn't afford to buy a package of gum.
If adherence to principles was gasoline, they couldn't back their cars out of the driveway.
They have the ethics of a pack rat and the courage of a tit mouse.
They are so timid, Yellow Cab has sued them for copyright infringement.
And their Congressional interns are known as the Yellow Pages.
An angry protester recently dumped a glass of lemonade on Mitt Romney's face - and no one noticed.
If courage was dynamite, they couldn't blow their noses.
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