In 5 + weeks since this deal started, our President has barely commented on the situation other than to appoint some special commission to affix blame 6 months from now. Meanwhile, there is no coordination and little help from the feds while fishermen organize themselves to wage an impossible battle against an approaching oil slick. Obama was more concerned with the primary elections, the semantics of a state immigration bill he hasn't read, and the campaign for his Supreme Court appointee, while the Gulf of Mexico has been ruined for a generation.
If he really had his "boot on the throat of BP" he would have taken this deal over very early on. This isn't about policy, point of view, party lines, or vision for the future, this is about taking charge in a crisis to demand action and limit the damage, and this is a miserable failure. The question about his leadership in a crisis has been answered, and it leaves this country with a scary outlook for his term his President.
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