Donny Doubles Down

Don Surber, ladies and germs (emphasis mine):

UPDATE: I see where a day later, people have noticed this story of the congressman who dared to say that maybe the press has hyped the damage from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. The liberals are going bonkers over it. Memeorandum has the links.

Given that the congressman A. represents the Gulf Coast area that will be hit by the oil and B. has actually seen the spill and C. has consulted the experts on this, maybe he knows something the liberals don’t.

So I have bumped this post from its original posting at 12:30 PM on Sunday.

ORIGINAL POST: So we have all these people — left and right — panicking over the spill from an oil rig which suffered an explosion that killed 11 men.

No one should die getting oil. No one.

But the panic over the possible environmental damage seems so unnecessary. Let’s see what happens first. The ocean is big and even a few million gallons of oil is small.

Cooler heads may prevail.

Democratic Congressman Gene Taylor, who represents Mississippi’s Gulf Coast, is telling people to chill. He toured the region where the oil is in the water.

Via the Sun Herald in Gulfsport, Congressman Taylor: “It’s not as bad as I thought… This isn’t Katrina. It’s not Armageddon. A lot of people are scared and I don’t think they should be… It’s breaking up naturally; that’s a good thing. The fact that it’s a long way from the Mississippi Gulf Coast, that’s a great thing, because it gives it time to break up naturally.”

Welcome to the Future Stupidity files, Donny. (You too, Congressman Taylor.)  Let's see who's right say, 30 days from now.