Necessity really is the mother of invention.
Still no excuse for not having some plan ready to go on day one.
There was no need for a backup plan since Obama exempted this major political contributor from normal procedures.
“Still no excuse for not having some plan ready to go on day one.”
I think they did. I think evidence is mounting that a proper response was prevented by the regime.
There was an official government plan ready. Burn off the spill right above the source with fire booms. It had been in place, pre-approved for instant use years ago. It was capable of handling spills larger than this, at least if weather conditions allowed it. However our brilliant federal government never got around to buying the physical fire booms required. So it deployed what it had instead, fiery rhetoric.