Republicans don’t seem to want a little thing like the destruction of the Gulf of Mexico to interfere with the profits of the corporations that own them. Haley Barbour is a prime example:
As dumb as Haley Barbour’s oil spill denialism sounded, and as silly as Fox’s Bill Hemmer looked when he defended Barbour, the Barbour’s stupidest comments came when he joined Bobby Jindal in demanding an expansion of dangerous deepwater drilling.
Let’s take your points one-by-one, Haley:
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As I considered the problem yesterday, afternoon, I had a 💡 moment. I suddenly realized that I have been inaccurately thinking of the GOP Gusher in two dimensions. The sane view is to respond to it as a three dimensional problem. Last night I saw two segments that endorse that view.
The first is from Rachel Maddow with Dr. Samantha Joye.
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The second is from Keith Olbermann with Philippe Cousteau.
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As sad as it is, I accept that the technology to prevent the damage we can see on the surface will ideally capture 20% of the surface oil. And that’s just the tip of the iceberg.
We need to save everything we can, but we also need to go to work to learn how to restore the environment, including the part we can’t see, which is the majority of the damage.
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The Jack is back, and all he can say is that Haley Barbour is your typical modern-day conservative Republican. He doesn’t care about anyone but himself, and as long as he isn’t personally affected or inconvenienced by this massive oil spill, his main priority is protecting bp’s corporate profits rather than protecting the citizens and businesses of his state. The guy should be literally thrown out of his state capitol on his fat ass!
Welcome back, Jack! You have been missed, my friend. Out of the capitol and into the Gulf… wait… forget that. The Gulf is already too polluted.
Jack – don’t forget about all the money his state gets from drilling off it’s coast.
Those pictures of the animals dripping or dead from the oil make me sick. And it’s breading time – who knows how many species will be lost. Heart breaking.
Lisa, I agree. It’s tragic.
It is just so sad Tom. When will we learn!
Monique, I fear it’s IF we will learn.
I did a post on Barbour, most of it was his own words, but still Linda accused me of exaggerating and she defended Barbour! The righties don’t have a clue. They are selfish and cold hearted. They probably don’t even look at the horrible pictures of the spill and how it’s affecting the birds and sea life much less how it’s affecting the humans!!
Sue, what else would you expect? That’s what happens when people let others do their thinking for them.
There is a retired radio host from my area who likes to whine about how societies go to Hell in a hand basket when the uneducated masses learn that they can vote themselves money from the treasury meaning welfare and other government run benefits.
Haley Barbour and the GOP are prime examples of an even greater danger in which Morons upset with a changing world have organized and are willingly marching toward the edge of a cliff like good unquestioning lemmings. The problem of course is that their actions are pulling the rest of is along.
Well said, as usual Beach. Largesse for corporations has surpassed larhesse for common folks long ago.
Haley is a bag o’ batshit..and an ignorant sumbitch at that. He is a ‘good ol boy’ that appeals to those who don’t have two brain cells to rub together. As long as his dumb ass stays in Alabama…I don’t give a shit what he says or does.
I have to change the channel when they start showing the dying birds. I can not take it as I saw it first hand in Santa Barbara. I get incredibly emotional and would love the opportunity to shove my size 9 right up Haley’s ass.
Dusty, if you ever do, please wear football cleats. 😉
Screw them they are all getting millions from big oil! We are seeing right now the dangers to the planet and society of giving too much control to oil companies. Remember when Bush and Cheney met secretly in the White House with the so called energy Czars?
They decided what was right for them and their and Cheney and Bush’s wallets while disregarding us and the planet. Cheney said they did not have to use the 1/2 million dollar acoustic valve that would have prevented this disaster.
Remember Cheney’s 34 million dollar golden handshake from the oil companies when he became VP? Cheney/Bush terminated platform and well inspections in 2001. They are directly responsible for this. Screw them, this is getting worse too not better.
I figure a million gallons a day before their “fix” looking at the increase in pressure and everything it looks 33% worse anyway. I am sick of hearing rosy crap. This is going to be devastating.
Jim, I agree with everything you said except going to. It already is. It;s going to be worse.
“We need to save everything we can, but we also need to go to work to learn how to restore the environment”
I imagine the regressive GOP will probably block any attempt to try to prevent disasters like this in the future, and anything that makes it way past the GOP will be so watered down it would be useless.
Kevin, I don’t think so. Most of the affected areas are solid red. They love spending federal money there, while they complain about federal spending.
Oily characters, all.
The oilyest
Well, it’s been quite a day. Two more Rigs off the coast of the Gulf are leaking and have been for a number of years. BP has tried to hide or at least keep quite that because of Top Kill, the casing deep in the floor of the Ocean has failed. Oil is coming from the ground itself.
So Haley and Bobby can kiss my Grits. Already talking as what we have is just a nuisance
Tim, that may or ma not be true. I updated on those yesterday.
Uh, actually, he sure as hell CAN ignore that. That’s what Rushpubliscums do best of all-deny the truth.
Good point, JR.