Well, yeah, bb... Bush did blow it... But Katrine and this oil spill ain't excatly the same critter... Ya' see, Katrina involved deploying techology and resources that we had a 100% working knowledge of how they worked and how to deploy them... I mean, it was rescue, housing, food, medical care, etc... Ain't much rocket surgery involved with dealing with the effects of a hurrican... Lotta will power tho and there's where Bush failed...

The oil spill is unchartered territory... Ain't np "National Respinse Plan", ain't no how=to=book, ain't really no historical equivalent... Yeah, Jimmy Carvelle can jump up and down and ain't gonna mean nuthin' in the real world... Plus, Jimmy hates Obama anyway fro beatin' out Hillary... Everyone knows that Carvelle is a Clintonite...

I mean, what the hell to all these crybabies think Obama can do??? Oh sure, he could have grandstanded... Maybe got a little FEMA trailer and moved to Lousiana and gone out every day and cleaned birds or pitched sand or filled snad bags... Yeah, he could have done that... Wall Street would have loved for him to have done that because it would mean that he wasn't in DC making calls and twistin' arms to bring some sane financial regs...

But, no, Obama sent several cabinet level people to Lousinan and has been in daily contact with them since the oli spill... But anything short of diving down and pluging it himself the Repubs won't be happy... They will try to make political hay out of it and, as per usual, doing a purdy good job...

Problme is that the upcoming elections are more a referendum on the role of the federal government as so far with the oil spill all we've heard outta Bobby Jingle is, "We need more federal government"??? I mean, the Repubs want it both ways... Thay want less government until they need it and then they can't get enough???

B~