Obama botched this, no question about it.
And like Palin said, Obama is beholden to them. As she said, he received more campaign cash from BP than any other federal politician in 20 years.
I am certainly not against oil drilling offshore or anywhere else, but Obama is a corporatist/socialist, which is bad, bad, bad.
He supports gov’t controlled capitalism, not free market capitalism.
In other words, a Fascist.
The New York Times further reports, “Tensions between the Obama administration and the scientific community over the gulf oil spill are escalating, with prominent oceanographers accusing the government of failing to conduct an adequate scientific analysis of the damage and of allowing BP to obscure the spill’s true scope.”
“The scientists point out that in the month since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded, the government has failed to make public a single test result on water from the deep ocean,” the Times observes. “And the scientists say the administration has been too reluctant to demand an accurate analysis of how many gallons of oil are flowing into the sea from the gushing oil well.”
“The Obama administration, it appears, has higher priorities,” Burkart suggested, “namely helping BP in its frantic efforts to keep the public in the dark about what is almost surely the worst environmental catastrophe in U.S. history.”
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0520/coast-guard-bps-rules/
>> Obama botched this, no question about it.
Without any comments from the peanut gallery.
What if that catastrophe was a airborne biological assault and not a marine?