Is this proof that the Obama administration's response to the BP spill was as bad as Bush's to Katrina?

If you do some research before you jump to conclusions you would discover that President Obama responded to the explosion, long before the oil-spill became evident, on DAY ONE---sending Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar and the Coast Guard to the site. There was no "slow" in the response, but British Petroleum (BP) had made a deal in 2007 that reduced oversight on its safety backup mechanisms, and the fail-safe shut-off had "dead batteries" and the Obama administration learned that the Minerals Management Service (MMS) was derelict (which is now being FIXED by splitting the royalties collections from offshore drilling which can total in excess of $19 billion a year from the conflict-of-interest role of regulating which might actually be a profit-reducing activity---these two functions are separated into two separate agencies). There are plenty of people at the sites of the ongoing spill (many now hired by BP to help with cleanup or with efforts to contain the leak and many others representing the Obama administration and the environmental groups).

What more can be done? NO SLOW REACTION...and also actions taken to PREVENT such a horrific thing from occurring again...If President Obama physically visits the sight his motorcade will be blocking traffic and the media will be focused more on him than on the catastrophe...so what more can he do? He's doing everything possible and he began helping on the first day by sending the appropriate people to help---people who are still engaged in trying to help minimize damages and stop the leak.

Actually, a law was passed after the Exxon Valdez disaster that said that companies are responsible for the cleanup of their own messes, Obama was just assuming that BP was going to be able to fix the problem. BP fudged the numbers on exactly how much oil was spewing out of that hole. I have a suspicion that BP may be bungling this in hopes that the US government will take over the cleanup - and the liability.

I've said this before here - you can bet your a** that the BP execs were calling the lawyers at the same time as they were calling the emergency crews. This is going to take years to sort out. It is almost textbook business practice for big companies to offload as much liability as possible, and it's almost invariably the taxpayers who end up having all that liability dumped in their laps.

That license should never have been granted to BP - or any other oil company. Apparently, there is long-standing corruption in the regulating agencies. It's rather interesting that one of the partners in this disaster is Dick Cheney's former company, Halliburton.

What about all the deregulation of the oil industry that was so willingly fostered by the Bushies, and Republicans in general?

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.