Sarah Palin can still ‘believe’ in Drill, Baby, Drill

Say what you will about Sarah Palin: She’s consistent, even when she’s poisonously wrong.

As what will likely prove to be the defining disaster of the Oil Age creeps toward the beaches of the northern Gulf Coast, most of the “Drill, baby, drill!” crowd is unavailable for comment. But not Palin. In a rambling note on her Facebook page entitled Domestic Drilling: Why We Can Still Believe, the half-term Alaskan governor doubles down on her famous catchphrase:

I repeat the slogan “drill here, drill now” not out of naiveté or disregard for the tragic consequences of oil spills – my family and my state and I know firsthand those consequences.

So it is not naiveté or disregard for the obvious risks of a dying petroleum industry which fuels Palin’s drilling fervor, but hubris. Behold cultural self-immolation as an act of religious faith.