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THE POLITICS OF OIL AND WATER AND IDIOTS

By "Captain Liberty" and "Rumpole"

HALEY BARBOUR IS AN IDIOT.For seventy days Haley Barbour, the Governor of Mississippi and former head of the Republican National Committee has loudly complained that fears of oil reaching Mississippi's coastline was created by the liberal media. Barbour, a former lobbyist for Oil Companies, and whose run for Governor was financed in part by large oil companies, has also been an outspoken critic of the government's ban on new offshore drilling, and has spoken against the use of Obama's "big government" against "private oil companies."On Monday June 28, 2010, oil reached the beaches of several Mississippi beaches. Governor Barbour immediately asked for more federal help and pledged to make sure BP paid for the clean-up. For 70 days everyone but the Governor of Mississippi knew that the prevailing Gulf currents would take oil to the beaches of Mississippi...continue to full post

Full post as published by Justice Building Blog on June 29, 2010 (boomark / email).