Haley Barbour thinks the temporary ban on offshore drilling is worse than the spill itself

How can anyone say something this moumentally stupid? After this horrible disaster, are guys like the governor of Mississippi still spouting a hard-on for Big Oil?

JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi's Republican governor, Haley Barbour, said on Sunday that the temporary moratorium on offshore drilling imposed by the Obama administration is worse than the catastrophic oil spill caused by the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon rig.

"Governor, what's worse, the moratorium or the effects of this spill on the region?" asked "Meet the Press" host David Gregory on Sunday. Barbour responded, "Well, the moratorium... the spill's a terrible thing, but the moratorium is a terrible thing that's not only bad for the region, it's bad for America."

As the Washington Monthly's Steve Benen notes, "what Barbour neglected to mention is that Obama got BP to commit to a $100 million fund to compensate unemployed oil rig workers affected by the closure of other deepwater rigs."

Short answer, as Sarah Palin would say: You Betcha!