Posted on 11/14/2016 2:16:41 PM PST by drewh
"Drill, baby, drill!”
During her bid for vice president in 2008, that was Sarah Palin's crowd-pleasing chant promoting her energy policy. Now the pithy catchphrase – and the former Alaska governor herself – could make a comeback.
News reports say Palin is on President-elect Donald Trump's short list to head the Interior Department. As secretary of the interior, she'd be in charge of overseeing oil drilling, uranium mining and other energy extraction on 500 million acres of public land, including iconic national parks like the Grand Canyon.
The pro-mining policies Trump and Palin could be expected to bring to Interior would mean EWG and other public land advocates would have to resume a fight we thought the Obama administration settled in 2012.
Under President George W. Bush, the Interior Department tried to open up uranium mines near the south rim of the Canyon. It was a scheme that even The Arizona Republic, once a champion of the so-called “Wise Use” movement, denounced.
If Trump does make moves to open up uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Palin wouldn't stand in his way, judging from her quip in 2011 about opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling: “If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, ‘Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.’”
In a few months, she could be leading the team.
(Excerpt) Read more at ewg.org ...
“I am not hearing this in DC/NYC circles. Those in the know aren’t talking.”
That’s because we have entered the age of “pull it out of your ass” journalism. Progs have completely lost it! They will literally say anything to deny the reality that Americans are on to them and don’t put up with their BS any longer.
Just undoing the policies like limiting grazing, logging, etc on federal lands that are choking the economies of those areas would help.
Undoing limits on hiking, biking, vehicles, too.
That's President Elect Donald J. Trump to you, Alex, ...
it would be a wise and effective appointment.
She has some ecological sense about her, too.
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATFE) should be the name of the general store where FREE CITIZENS can buy those items without some government bureau’s interference.
Please, yes!
(My best friend just yesterday opined that this would be the best placement for her. She was right. I hope it happens.)
Hope all 4 walls are covered with ‘dead things’. ;)
The libs were planning on giving the lands to Mexico anyway next election cycle.
He’s building a dream administration. You can tell by the level of hate leveled upon it how great it will be!
The greenies would flat out lose it, around the bend, over the cliff, full on pre-natal thumb sucking meltdown with Sarah Palin in that position, wouldn’t they? Hope it’s true.
+1.
Bet she knowe how to field dress that sucker in record time without a single puncture to the gut sack.
Free tickets to Hail Bop or Jonestown.
Democrats, act now, get them while they last.
Certainly will be controversial, if true.
She is usually spot on for policy. But her communication leaves a bit to be desired. Run on sentences.
Remember how the Left absolutely derided the chant, “Drill baby, Drill”? What no one else said is that drill baby, drill worked with phenomenal success!
I LOVE LOVE LOVE all this winning and I LOVE LOVE LOVE watching all these far left loons in the Commie media having a fit over everything Trump does..remember this, when the media hates it it means its a WINNER
That is a thing of beauty.
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