You have to change your rhetoric if you're about to ask the federal government for a big "handout" to clean up the spill.

But the New York Times said the spill was making him a 2012 contender. I'm confused. Obama is at fault for this too, somehow.

Yes, it is truly a shame Haley can not tap into the talents of the late Nick Civella and Tony Accardo, as they were extremely gifted at skimming. Plus, they could have been great advisors for the National RepuG Party.

Who could have imagined THIS KIND OF PRESSURE in a now uncontrollable volcano of oil and toxins in the gulf.

My god how do people vote for idiots like him. The people of Mississippi must be the most gullible group in America.

Everytime, I hear Haley speaking, I expect to see Charles Durning playing him and jumping upon a stage and belting out "You are my sunshine" and, then, introducing the Soggy Bottom Boys.

With apologies to the great Charles Durning, who, when he disembarked at Normandie, the soldiers immediately in front and behind him were killed instantly. But, he could play Haley to a T.

I did relief work in Mississippi after Katrina. Haley Barbour is a legend in the minds of the media elite, but he is not well regarded along the Gulf Coast. They have to put up with his silly. The closer you get to Haley Barbour more you want to see him go.

"My god how do people vote for idiots like him. The people of Mississippi must be the most gullible group in America."

Well, this IS Mississippi after all. It's not as though its citizens have a huge reserve of talent from which to draw. If you're smart enough to run Mississippi successfully, you were probably over the state line before the ink was dry on your diploma.

Mississippi: The Shallow End of the Gene Pool

The thing that seems to be missing from news coverage of the oil spill is specifics on the current and potential impacts to people. People sort of care about pelicans and turtles, but if you really want to get their attention, you have to show direct impacts that they can relate to. Most of what I hear being reported seems to be about how huge the oil spill is, or how this or that right wing lunatic is denying how huge it is, but very little in terms of the specific impact to people of the hugeness. I.e., how many local businesses are now closed? How many jobs have been lost, at least temporarily? How many miles of beach are now closed? What is the effect on the jobless #'s for LA, MS, and FLA?
These kinds of statistics need to be listed on all the news venues.

It's nice to see Barbour pinned to the wall for his careless comments, although I don't think anyone expected incisive, realistic analysis from such a doofus. However, what about the other hacks whose ridiculous comments should now be used to roast them like suckling pigs? I'm speaking, of course, of Rush Limbaugh and his divorced-from-reality piehole effluent about oil being "as natural as the ocean water" and that the ocean would "take care of itself" if left alone.

is anyone going to challenge newly-minted-environmentalist Limbaugh about his doltish and uninformed remarks? That'll be the day. Make a dandy Democratic ad, though, considering how he's revered in conservative circles.

Mandy Cat: for fuck's sake, with friends like you, who needs Barbour?

Although I concede there are some people here in MS who like to talk about the gene pool, and how it might be improved. Sounds like they might be your kind of people.

Oh, if only we could force the governor of Mississippi to resign the way we could force the CEO of GM to quit.

Ah...those Mississippi beaches. That takes a little understanding. Nobody really goes to Mississippi for the beaches any more, that's why they needed the casinos. Their tourism was dead. As a child in the 50's I would travel from Georgia to Louisiana to visit cousins. The best part was a mid-day stop at Gulfport, where we were allowed to play in the surf for about an hour. Never long enough for me, it was a beautiful beach, not quite the white powder of the Florida panhandle, but it was a lovely beach. They had beautiful hotels and motels all up and down the strip, great seafood restaurants. Now, they had that hurricane in the late 60's which closed the beaches for a few years, but in the 80's I took my kids along that stretch on a camping trip. What a different place. No tourism to speak of, the nice hotels and restaurants were gone, we ate in a little seafood joint down on the fishing docks. But the amazing part, when we went on the beach we were the only people there, aside from a man walking his dog. We got in the water, and the water was so gross. It was brown, it was the temperature of bathtub water. You could see brown particulate matter floating in it. I panicked and made my kids get out and shower, was afraid they were draining the local sewage into the gulf or something. It was seriously the nastiest water I have ever swum in, and I have been in some good old muddy southern rivers. The campground manager kind of sarcastically asked me how I liked the beach. When we reached Louisiana I asked some of my oil industry cousins what happened to the Gulfport beaches, was it offshore drilling. They swore it was not, said they thought it was all the nutrients washing down the Mississippi these days (because the levees keep the river from flooding and dispersing all the soil it carries.) They agreed with me that nobody really goes to Mississippi any more to swim in the water, but disagreed about the source of the brown gunk. One cousin did say, "You have to go all the way to Gulf Shores (Alabama) these days to get water fit to swim in." So you can take Haley Barbour's comments with a grain of salt. Those folks gave up on their beaches a long time ago. And the water has been brown for the last 20 years, so I guess he thinks they won't notice the difference. To this day I wonder if it was really the Mississippi, or was it the offshore drilling.

Was that Haley Barbour speaking or one of the many bloated oil-covered dolphins belching it's last breath?

I can't tell....

GrammyPat - Jesus, that's sad.

Ron Byers - I think his inside-the-beltway rep comes mainly from his successful tenure at the RNC. He seemed to be a good fund-raiser, and ran it competently, as far as I could tell. Outside the beltway, of course you are right. Even a lifelong Republican would balk at voting for such a Boss Hogg stereotype -- corrupt, fat and utterly indifferent to the welfare of his constituents.

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