from Grist Magazine:
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Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, was unconcerned on an April 29 Fox News panel. "The oil spill, itself, I don't think will be a huge disaster over the medium and long term, honestly." Having assessed the disaster thusly, he worried whether the public and politicians will be "grown up enough ... not to let one incident drive policy." After all, Kristol noted, offshore drilling is "very environmentally clean, except when there is a disaster like the spill."
Former half-term governor of Alaska Sarah Palin was pained, on Facebook. She was "shocked and saddened," her "heart breaks." Her husband, Mr. Palin, offered that the incident was "heartbreaking." She agreed that it was so. Heart broken, she nonetheless forges on to note that "accidents happen" and that despite an ecosystem lost here, industry lost there, drilling makes us a "more secure, prosperous, and peaceful nation."
Rush Limbaugh said the spill "might have been intentional" -- that is, the work of eco-saboteurs. The Obama administration is "open to the possibility that this could well have been on purpose," as evidenced by the SWAT teams Obama was sending. "Don't forget, the original Earth Day, 40 years ago, was inspired by the river in Cleveland catching fire," Rush noted. "Forty years later, the day before Earth Day this year, the Gulf is on fire. Coincidence? Jury's still out." Indeed. ........(more)
The complete piece is at:
http://www.grist.org/article/2010-05-01-what-are-conservatives-saying-about-the-gulf-oil-disaster/