She was the GOVERNOR of an ENERGY STATE! How dare you question her qualifications as an energy expert!
I live in FLORIDA and that makes me an expert on ROCKET SHIPS, you know.
Palin says environmentalists are to blamefor the oil spill in the gulf:
In other words, oil companies had no choice but to avoid safety regulations by drilling in deep water.
That woman takes my breath away, and not in a good way.
“Now look what you made me do!”–Oliver Hardy
I wonder what lies the environmentalists told. Do you suppose they suggested there might be a spill? Those slanderous bastards!
Oh, clever! You could use this as a justification for all sort of policy fuck-ups:
“Invading Iraq to steal their oil 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.”
Personally I think the Obama administration isn’t doing enough to combat the oil spill, they’re too busy hanging out with John Lennon! What more should they be doing you ask? Well, exactly what the Bush administration would have done: Put the job of fixing the leak and cleaning it up out to tender and then award the multi-billion dollar contract to Haliburton.
And an energy expert, too!
Well, yes, now that our beaches are covered in oil 
GOP Congressional nominee from New Mexico suggests putting landmines on the US/Mexico border, although after being pressed to clarify, says “I am not suggesting we do that.” It’s simply that:
No, it’s decidedly not “interesting”…rather, it’s decidedly stupid. Tom Mullins makes the ghost of Princess Diana cry. 
Of course it’s interesting – you posted it here. There’s no conflict between interesting and stupid, that’s the whole idea behind this particular thread.
True enough that the two aren’t necessarily in conflict. I stand corrected there. However, in this case, I’d distinguish between (1) the idea itself being stupid and (2) that a prominent politician would suggest such a stupid idea is what’s interesting.
Interesting, that is, in a “point and laugh” kinda way. 
What the article doesn’t mention is that Mullins’ intent is not to keep Mexicans out but to keep American tourists in. He’s tired of American money being spent in Cancun and Tijiuana when there are perfectly good beaches in [del]Louisiana[/del] [del]Alabama[/del] [del]Mississippi[/del] [del]Florida[/del] [del]Texas[/del] California.
Once the marketing squids massage it, you will have beaches plentiful in suntan oil.
Or, as one of the ideas on America Speaking Out explains:
(Apparently, the alternative option of pulling all the continents together with a giant magnet to facilitate future invasions has been removed from the site.)
Speaking of America Speaking Out, the trolls and comedians seem to have gotten bored and drifted away (perhaps because setting the pageviews to default to “Most Interest” rather than “Most Recent” made their contributions less visible). However, that change highlights trend I noticed before (that most of the ideas that are actually popular with the public are ones the GOP leadership dare not touch because they’re too beholden to the Religious Right). They can’t win, it seems…
Not all of them, thank God. 
Nibblin on sponge cake
Watchin the sun bake
All of those tourists covered with oil
Jimmy Buffet, Margaritaville
Alabama GOP candidate Rick Barber foments treason, advocating “taking up arms against the United States” in his campaign video.
Cite.
Think he’ll be arrested? Or elected?
Institutionalized, hopefully.
Can’t you fling him over the land mines into Juarez?
He might land in the Gulf. Probably the best place for him, really.