There is a major difference in not only attentiveness but action between Katrina and this spill... Only a true partisan trying to make political points based on mythology would try to lump the Obama administration's handling of this to the absolute mess that the Bush administartion made of Katrina...

But the problem here is systemic in that since deregulations of the 90's the corportaion have (and continue) been given free reigns to "police" themselves... Same problem with the mine disater in Wes Virginia a couple three weeks ago... What we have here is the corportists calling too many of the shots... Think Golman Sacks, Halliburton, Blackwater, Exxon, BP... And the corportists are so scared that Obama will force regulations bacvk on their specfic industries that they are paying lots of $$$$ to lobbiest and PR firms to send a subtle message: Do you want big government in your life???

The phraseology is that "even a caveman" would shout an astounding , "NO!!!"...

That is the problem and it's taken US 30 years to get to the point where the nation is in decline because profits have trumped good policy...

So the oil industry (Google A.P.I.) here has spent a ton on money getting their point accross and that point is, in the words of my late father-in-law who was an A.P.I. lobbiest, "Don't worry, be happy"... Well, "Don't worry, be happy", in the words of Dr, Phil, ain't workin' for US...

What will come out over the next few weeks is that BP was blowing smoke up the Obama's ass on how it had things under control and how little oil was actually leaking... Remember the 1000 barrels a day??? BP had to know... They knew the size of the well and the pressure... Ain't rocket surgery here when you have engineers who go to school to learn these kinds of things... Yet, until it became apparent that BP was blowin' smoke, there really wasn't much that the feds could legally do against BP...

This ain't Katrina where there were clear opportunities for the feds to over-ride state and local goevrenments (again, Google National Response Plan)... This is a new ballgame for which their isn't a clear path... Katrina was easy compared to this because we had the resources, the laws and more importantly the knowldge and experience, to do recovery...

So let's just leave this bogus claim that this oil; spill is Obama's Katrina where it belongs... On the trash heap... If anything, this is Obama's 9/11...

B~