Cameras Spot A Gutsy Message for Biden On Lauren Boebert’s Shirt at SOTU

By
David Rufful
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OPINION | This article contains commentary that reflects the author's opinion.

Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado sent a message to Joe Biden and the Democrats with her attire at the State of the Union address.

Boebert wore a shawl with the words “Drill Baby Drill” on the back. The phrase initially gained significant prominence when it was used by Sarah Palin as the Republican Vice Presidential nominee in 2008.

“Drill Baby Drill” expresses support for increased drilling for petroleum and gas within the U.S. Democrats have recently come under heavy fire for killing the Keystone XL pipeline and importing oil from other nations, including Russia. Take a look:

During Biden’s address, Boebert live-tweeted: “Another 30,000,000 barrels released from the Strategic Reserve?”

“Why don’t we just stop killing our own energy production instead of tapping into our reserves?” she added.

“When it comes to Energy, I support an all-of-the-above strategy where the government does not choose winners and losers. Drill baby, drill!” Boebert has previously stated on the issue.

“Add new nuclear technology to the mix as a clean and efficient energy source,” she added.

When President Donald Trump was in office, he took matters into his own hands to impose sanctions on Russia and sustain U.S. energy independence.

In 2019, a bipartisan effort of the House Armed Services Committee recommended imposing sanctions on Russia. Congress passed a measure to impose sanctions on a Russian company that is building the Nord Stream 2 pipeline to deliver natural gas from Russia to Germany.

Trump signed these sanctions into law because the pipeline “really makes Germany a hostage of Russia if things ever happened that were bad.” Trump wanted to contain the Russians.

The pipeline was widely viewed as a way to empower Russia to overrun Europe. Polish President Andrzej Duda told Trump that he fiercely opposed Nord Stream 2.

The head of Naftogaz, a Ukrainian energy company, called the pipeline Russia’s most “dangerous geopolitical project.”

“Maintaining Trump’s sanctions should have been an easy call for President Biden,” Governor Kristi Noem said.

But what did Joe Biden do? The Biden administration waived those bipartisan sanctions and allowed Nord Stream to move forward.

Some people believe that Joe Biden simply reversed an important accomplishment of the Trump administration for spite.

“A more sinister theory suggests that because his son, Hunter Biden, served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, President Biden had, at a minimum, the appearance of a conflict of interest,” Governor Noem wrote in an opinion piece on Fox News.

“To make matters worse, Hunter ‘received a $3.5 million wire transfer from Elena Baturina, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow,’ according to a Congressional report,” Noem concluded.