{"id":1769,"date":"2010-06-06T02:32:42","date_gmt":"2010-06-06T09:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1769"},"modified":"2010-06-06T02:32:42","modified_gmt":"2010-06-06T09:32:42","slug":"barbour-unveils-gop-plan-for-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/barbour-unveils-gop-plan-for-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"Barbour Unveils GOP Plan for Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">Haley Barbour demonstrated the best Republican idea for managing the GOP Gusher.<\/font><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/barbourbush.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-right-width: 0px; margin: 2px 0px 5px 10px; display: inline; border-top-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px\" title=\"barbour-bush\" border=\"0\" alt=\"barbour-bush\" align=\"right\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/barbourbush_thumb.jpg\" width=\"204\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a> Yesterday, President Obama met with the governors of Louisiana, Florida, and Alabama in Kenner, LA, to discuss the oil spill clean-up effort. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) \u2014 who has repeatedly tried to downplay the disaster \u2014 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sunherald.com\/2010\/06\/03\/2233710\/barbour-a-no-show-again-for-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">was the only no show<\/a>, making it the second meeting with Obama he\u2019s skipped: <\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Barbour spokeswoman Laura Hipp said the governor is in New York, meeting with bond rating agencies about the state\u2019s finances and to attend the annual Mississippi Picnic in Central Park<\/span>, which showcases Magnolia State food and culture to New Yorkers and expatriate Mississippians living there. [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0in 0.375in; font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold\">Barbour missed another meeting between Obama and the Gulf governors on the president\u2019s trip last week to Louisiana.<\/span> He had previously committed to attend the opening of a solar panel plant in Senatobia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; font-family: calibri; font-size: 11pt\">Hipp and a White House spokesperson said that Barbour has been participating in regular conference calls with federal government officials on the response effort\u2026 [<em>emphasis original<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"http:\/\/thinkprogress.org\/2010\/06\/05\/barbour-skips-meeting\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think Progress<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p><font color=\"#0000ff\">How could not showing up be the best GOP plan?&#160; He can\u2019t obstruct, if he\u2019s not there.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Haley Barbour demonstrated the best Republican idea for managing the GOP Gusher. Yesterday, President Obama met with the governors of Louisiana, Florida, and Alabama in Kenner, LA, to discuss the oil spill clean-up effort. Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour (R) \u2014 who has repeatedly tried to downplay the disaster \u2014 was the only no show, making <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/06\/barbour-unveils-gop-plan-for-gulf\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}