Mississippi officials slam Coast Guard as BP oil hits shores

[unhappycamper]

Oil from the runaway Deepwater Horizon well 120 miles south of the Mississippi laps over protective boom material in Biloxi Bay.


Mississippi officials slam Coast Guard as BP oil hits shores
By Anita Lee and Margaret Baker | Biloxi Sun Herald
Posted on Sunday, June 27, 2010

GULFPORT, Miss. — What South Mississippi officials had been fearing for weeks came true Sunday when large, gooey globs of weathered oil, chocolate-colored oil patties and tar balls washed ashore in quantity along the Mississippi Coast.

Emergency managers scrambled to win approval for stronger protection of inland waterways, more skimming equipment in Mississippi waters and installation of absorbent material, also to keep oil out of inland waterways.

Local officials were livid that the oil had made it ashore.

Connie Moran, the mayor of Ocean Springs, Miss., said the city would consider taking further action itself to protect the sensitive marshes and beaches of Jackson County, whose coastline runs from Biloxi to the border with Alabama. She blamed the organization that combines the Coast Guard and BP into a so-called unified command for allowing the oil to drift into the beaches.

~snip~

Barbour, who once confidently predicted that the oil would skirt Mississippi, rushed back to the state on Friday from a fundraising tour he was making on behalf of Republican candidates. Sunday said the state was prepared to move alone if the federal government couldn't provide more resources.

[gleaner]

1. This is very sad ...

I'm not sad for Barbour who was a dick head after Katrina too, but I am sad for the wildlife and beaches and the people who are being affected and will be affected more as time passes. The picture is chilling. The fouling of the ocean is not going to be limited to the immediate area of the spill. There are currents and tides and now it is hurricane season. It will disperse all over and who knows how much of our coastlines will be affected?

[SpiralHawk]

3. Barbour is such an overgrown frat boy (R)

Sheesh. He and Rush Limbaugh are a pair, both chickenhawks, both spewing the notion that the oil disaster is 'natural' and of no consequence, both groveling on bended knee to BP. |

Now they set their Cuban cigars aside for a moment, and start to squeal -- but not at their corporate oil cronies who have negligently perpetrated this tragedy -- but rather at the very government that is trying to deal with this mess, the government that they and their republicon cronies have been trying to strangle and drown in the bathtub for 20 years or more.

How twisted is that? Republicon Family Pharisee Values. Again.

[gleaner]

19. I had heard that Barbour ....

was authorized up to 600 Coat Guard vessels if he wanted them. He ordered 60. Now he says the government didn't send enough ships. Say what!:wtf:

[proud2BlibKansan]

2. So it's the Coast Guard's fault?

Why not slam BP?

[WinkyDink]

10. The CG doesn't give them bribes.

[annabanana]

4. "if the federal government couldn't provide more resources."

The federal government is busy drowning in a bathtub, remember? You stupid "government is the problem" asshole?

[jtuck004]

5. I wonder if BP will use this as a defense?

Miss sues them for damage, they bring into the record the Gov of the state saying the reason
the shores were damaged was Coast Guard malfeasance, not BP.

Dumb public statement.

[Hubert Flottz]

6. Go suck your crawdads you chubby cheeked gas bag

I hope the Coast Guard shells the asshole.

[icnorth]

7. "...scrambled to win approval for stronger

protection..." Just what in hell have all the "officials" been doing for the past 69 days.

http://tinyurl.com/27nc3uv

Connie Moran, the mayor of Ocean Springs, Miss., said... "This is just outrageous and unacceptable.”

No Connie, its more than outrageous and unacceptable. It's exhibit "A" of corporate grand larceny that the "little" people along the coast will be paying for decades. But what the hell, we're acutely aware the number one issue for America is a few cave dwellers packing heat in the White Mountains of Tora Bora.

[SoCalDem]

8. Boo Hoo Barbour.. what a slug

neanderthal


and had Obama been wildly pro-active & positioned ships all over the gulf in the early days of the spill, Barbour would have been frothing at the mouth over BIG GUBBMINT WASTE OF PUBLIC FUNDS.

Barbour's a big ole crybaby, a liar & a scumbag. I cannot believe that people elected him to anything. He's probably only suited to be a bathroom inspector at the local bowling alley.

[RedRoses323]

14. ....

:rofl: :rofl: :yourock:

[madmax]

15. Damn!!!

It's him or his twin!

[Angry Dragon]

16. "a bathroom inspector"

He seems more the type to be patrolling and trolling in bathrooms
to see if he can be of "service" to anyone and all........

[malaise]

9. But but but

Barbour said '...tar balls are no big deal...the biggest, the biggest negative impact for us has been the news coverage.'

http://madrad2002.wordpress.com/2010/06/07/mississippi-governor-haley-barbour-downplays-oil-spill/

[DFW]

12. GMTA!! N/T

[DFW]

11. But, but, but...their Gov. Said "The coast is clear, come on down!"

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0606/barbour-media-damage-oil-spill/

A Republican Governor, especially one who was head of the RNC wouldn't have been trying to deceive anyone, would he?

Well, come to think of it..............

[AlinPA]

13. The fat pig governor said it was all a media plot "Ain't no ole -c'mon daln"

[Kingofalldems]

17. Drill Baby Drill!!! Yeah-and deregulate!

That's the ticket!----> The mantra of just about all repubs.

[HCE SuiGeneris]

18. OMG. Look how much oil is there. It outnumbers the pockets of water.

:cry: :scared: