During the 1992 election I concluded as early as my first visit to New Hampshire that Bill Clinton was hateful in his behavior to women, pathological as a liar, and deeply suspect when it came to money in politics. I have never had to take any of that back, whereas if you look up what most of my profession was then writing about the beefy, unscrupulous 'New Democrat,' you will be astonished at the quantity of sheer saccharine and drool. Anyway, I kept on about it even after most Republicans had consulted the opinion polls and decided it was a losing proposition, and if you look up the transcript of the eventual Senate trial of the president—only the second impeachment hearing in American history—you will see that the last order of business is a request (voted down) by the Senate majority leader to call Carol and me as witnesses. So I can dare to say that at least I saw it through.
Christopher HitchensTags: money politics women lies history united-states misogyny elections corruption chauvinism us-presidents sexism trials presidents new-hampshire bill-clinton 1992 pathology carol-blue democratic-party-us impeachment impeachment-of-bill-clinton new-democrats republican-party-us us-presidential-election-1992 us-senate
Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less'—with an emphasis on the now. The wildly popular campaign was a cry against caution, against study, against measured action. In Gingrich's telling, drilling at home wherever the oil and gas might be—locked in Rocky Mountain shale, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and deep offshore—was a surefire way to lower the price at the pump, create jobs, and kick Arab ass all at once. In the face of this triple win, caring about the environment was for sissies: as senator Mitch McConnell put it, 'in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and Texas, they think oil rigs are pretty'. By the time the infamous 'Drill Baby Drill' Republican national convention rolled around, the party base was in such a frenzy for US-made fossil fuels, they would have bored under the convention floor if someone had brought a big enough drill.
Naomi KleinTags: alabama environment environmentalism employment slogans 2008 arabs louisiana texas may-2008 anti-intellectualism deepwater-horizon-oil-spill republican-party-us 2008-in-united-states 2008-rnc anti-arabism arctic-national-wildlife-refuge drill-baby-drill drilling-rigs fossil-fuels mississippi mitch-mcconnell natural-gas-prices newt-gingrich offshore-drilling offshore-oil-gas-in-us oil-platforms oil-rigs oil-wells petroleum-industry political-campaign republican-national-convention rocky-mountains shale-gas shales united-states-senate us-offshore-drilling-debate
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