Haley Barbour: Oil? What Oil?

[nmbluesky]

Press Should Stop Scaring Tourists. "The truth is," he said, "we have had virtually no oil. If you were on the Mississippi Gulf coast anytime in the last 48 days you didn't see any oil at all. We have had a few tar balls but we have had tar balls every year, as a natural product of the Gulf of Mexico. 250,000 to 750,000 barrels of oil seep into the Gulf of Mexico through the floor every year. So, tar balls are no big deal. In fact, I read that Pensacola or the Florida beaches when they have tar balls yesterday didn't even close. They just sent people out to pick them up and throw them in the bag." "They'll be in West Africa, Indonesia, in China, and drilling oil wells elsewhere in the world," said Barbour. "And the loss of production that we're going to suffer will make us even more dependent on the Middle East, on Venezuela, on people that aren't our friends. let me tell you one other little thing environmentalists ought to think about. The ten worst oil spills in American history, seven of them were from ships." "The American people are making up their minds pretty clearly about what they think of the administration's performance in this disaster," said Barbour. "And I'll let it stand at that. You know, Napoleon said never interfere with the enemy while he's in the process of destroying himself."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/06/haley-barbour-oil-what-oi_n_602088.html

[JitterbugPerfume]

1. that ain't oil

it's chocolate mousse


or toothpaste . It is very confusing.

[sandnsea]

2. If it's "no big deal", then where's "this disaster"?

Hurry up rapture.

[Art_from_Ark]

3. Haley's about as clueless as they come

:argh:

[bbinacan]

4. I'd like to know where

he got the oil seep numbers.

[indepat]

5. I would delight in seeing Haley as soaked in oil as some of the pelicans

are now being soaked just to see him exclaim it didn't amount to a hill of beans. :P

[bigdarryl]

6. and he wants to run for President JESUS!!!

[saltpoint]

7. Barbour's slicker than the oil which will be on his beaches soon

enough, despite his smarmy protestations that "the media" are causing strain in vacation-related businesses in Mississippi.