Again it’s the people on the ground
The president told Matt Lauer that he is looking for whose ass to kick – big tough guy. You know what, it’s Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser who is out there figuring it out. BP has proven to be the most irresponsible, arrogant and patronizing company that I’ve ever seen the likes of since Enron. As a matter of fact the Federal Government has proven to be the most incompetent governing body that the United States has ever seen from 9/11 to the failure of the levees to BP’s oil spill – the response has been shortsighted, reactive, and incompetent.
Obama – he can talk tough all he wants but he needs to make sure that BP and all the rest of these companies pick up the check for everything – the clean up to the restoration of our precious Gulf.
In the meantime, ordinary citizens are doing what they can like my friend who moved to the beach to raise her son there – she’s blogging about the beauty that might disappear any day now.