Or the Republicans could remind the country, it was Clinton protecting his friends in Indonesia, and getting campaign cash, when he made a national park out of an area where clean burning coal was found in Utah. No, I can't expect the Republicans to remind people of what Clinton did to hurt this country.
The official spin from the left is that no new drilling can be allowed, as that is why the hurricane happened in the first place.
I suspect in the coming days we will be seeing protest to ban off shore drilling in the Gulf to stop "Global Warming'.