Obama Urges GOP To 'Stop Playing Special Interest Politics' On Oil Liability

If someone came into your home and was destroying it, would you allow them to continue the activity and be in charge of clean-up?



No.



You would call in your own people, your own specialists, and give those who had destroyed it the bill.



The argument that BP should control the effort stop the oil from gushing (and subsequent clean-up) because the oil industry's employees are the sole/best experts is abzurd.



It is long past the time when Obama should have pushed BP aside and put the Army Corps of Engineers on this. When the Army Corps of Engineers is allowed to do the job, there is nobody better.



BP has no desire or incentive to stop this disaster. As a matter of fact, by destroying the entire region ecologically, BP and all pro-drilling interested parties (politicians included) can and will argue that offshore drilling increase, "since it's all ruined anyway". Mary Landrieu has already launched that campaign (fumes on the brain is the only explanation I can think of for Louisianans putting her back into the US Senate), and the longer that Obama drags his feet by letting BP control the situation, the more he looks in cahoots.
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