“Drill, Baby, Drill!” was a 2008 Republican campaign slogan originally used at the 2008 Republican National Convention by former Maryland Lieutenant Governor, current RNC chairman Michael Steele. The slogan expressed support for increased drilling for petroleum as a source of additional energy. …

Sarah Palin used it often during that campaign.

I watched the vice-Presidential debate where Palin mocked Joe Biden for saying that deep water drilling wasn’t safe.

… Republicans continued to use the slogan after the 2008 election.

In 2010, however, the slogan received renewed attention because of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, a major oil spill at a BP offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill is causing extensive environmental damages and economic losses estimated in the billions of dollars. As a result, some proponents of “Drill, baby, drill” became embarrassed about their previous support. The slogan was parodied as “Spill, baby, spill”, and “Kill baby, Kill”.

Two senior Republican Senators, Jon Kyl and Pat Roberts, made comments attempting to distance themselves and the Republican Party from the slogan …

The right thing to do after the oil spill would be to drop that catch phrase as a political talking point. Politicians in times of disaster should work together to solve the problem.

Sarah Palin, instead, on June 6th put this up on Twitter.

Yep. She’s got the gall to blame environmentalists for this spill.

Her post on Facebook was a little more coherent:

… “Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country’s energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies about onshore and shallow water drilling have locked up safer areas. It’s catching up with you. The tragic, unprecedented deep water Gulf oil spill proves it.” …

All politicians are lying swine. But I can’t think of a worse liar in politics today than Sarah Palin.

She must think her followers are stupid enough to believe this spin.