Am I missing something here?
I don’t see how he’s failing to act. He doesn’t have magic powers to stop the oil from gushing out into the ocean. If this had happened while President Bush was in the White House, would we have been wailing that he was “failing to act”? No, they’d have been doing that over at DU, and we’d have been pointing out that there really wasn’t much he could do, besides letting the experts try their best to fix it, which is exactly what has been going on. If he’s actively trying to minimize coverage of it, (assuming there isn’t actually serious suspicions of terrorism) it’s most likely because he doesn’t want the leftist enviroweenie wing of his political base to get all stirred up and start loudly demanding that he promise to end offshore drilling (which he has no more intention of doing than President Bush did).