Is that what his lobbyist friends from BP are telling him? Good luck with that strategy. If the beaches are open and safe, maybe he can take friends and family for a beach party and show us more. It certainly would give everyone comfort to know that he is taking the lead on disproving claims of toxic sickness from others. Maybe he can join Rush and talk about how natural the oil is.

“This is the first significant amount of oil residue to hit Mississippi since the Deepwater Horizon explosion six weeks ago,” Gov. Haley Barbour said. “While it’s the first, it won’t be the last.”

During a news conference in Jackson on Tuesday, Barbour said this is no reason for “anybody to panic.” The state’s beaches and ports remain open, and Barbour said, “We’re told that it’s not toxic.”

“But it is a reason for everybody to remember that there is a likelihood that there is going to be more intrusion of some form of depleted oil, tar balls, tar mats, emulsified oil, that’s going to reach the barrier islands,” Barbour said.