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I have an excuse that the Obama administration can be used to explain why he waited so long to take concrete steps tackle oil spills From the Gulf, an account that manages to stick it to George W. Bush: Obama has been so busy cleaning problems that Bush did not have time to clean up the mess in the Gulf!

The chronology of events since the explosion British Petroleum drilling rigs in deep water leased April 20 Horizonte sharpness reveals a less rosy picture and the willingness of government fulfilling its role in crisis management.

Three days after the explosion, press secretary of the White House, Robert Gibbs, insisted to reporters that the disaster would not affect plans to open several of President microscopic pockets of our vast reserves offshore oil drilling, the only reassuring result of this debacle.

It is important to understand that the White House, Obama speaks, the statement Gibbs is the equivalent of announcing: "This is a little spark to be released in the morning, and we are not worried subject distance. Why that arch over the spilled milk? "The administration has popularized the saying" Never let a serious crisis of waste and would like any excuse to reverse its recent democratic promise little irritating to expand the drilling would not have the opportunity to return his promise to go that had stopped the true scope of the impending disaster.

It is true that the steep losses of the first Horizon Oil did not discovered until the next day after the Coast Guard had rescinded its search operation for the missing workers turn. But anyway only the following Tuesday, one week after the explosion, the Interior Minister Ken Salazar announced that it will launch a investigation into the incident.

One wonders if the department had fully understood the gravity of the situation, even then, since the same day, Chief of Staff Tom Strickland Salazar, Salazar was assigned to the person "point" in this issue, left his wife for a period three days of work focuses on a journey to the Grand Canyon, apparently, a day of "work-centered rafting.

Days later, when the danger potential spread of the spill began at the dawn of staff of the Department, the National Park Service helicopter rushed 55th state to Strickland out of the canyon and guide in New Orleans.

Meanwhile, Homeland Security Secretary Janet "The system works" Napolitano, whose ministry will work closely with the Ministry of Interior to deal with the crisis, told reporters that the Defense Ministry was not involved at the wave: "If and when you have something to add, you know, "she said dryly.

As Napolitano response had changed over the downing of the aircraft attempted Christmas Day "The system worked" to "The system did not work," three days after his refusal of the department participation in the defense in cleaning said "Meet the Press" that the MoD had been in the Gulf "in the first day. It was a situation that has been treated as a possible catastrophic failure of one day. "(The administration later flirted with the idea of claiming Napolitano had actually said, "You May", but even then decided they were too dishonest to delete.)

To reconcile the contradictory comments, a ministry spokesman said in its latest statement, Napolitano spoke the presence of the Coast Guard, which had been in the Gulf since the first day.

Yes, the Coast Guard is very likely that in the scene an hour, and it is their mission When an accident occurs at sea for Napolitano, to say that the research mission of the Coast Guard was equivalent to sending Defense Department's resources in the region to cope with "the risk of catastrophic failure" is like saying that the flight attendants pick up garbage from passengers on Flight 253 at the northwest initiative reflects the Transportation Administration Security to help stop the attacker as Omar Faruk Abdulmutallab.

At least Obama points finger BP for its role in the disaster, a conflict of interest potential, one might think, given the recent revelation that Obama is the candidate of the federal government has received the most amount of campaign contributions the oil company over the past 20 years.

I do not usually rag on Obama for not addressing the biggest crisis of spill oil soon, but he has about himself, when he was parachuted into New Orleans as a newly elected Senator in 2005 make a big show of mouthing Out Kanye West-style, on the incompetence of the Bush administration to cope with the aftermath of Katrina. Obama has in the spill itself, so to speak.

Kanye West To combine two malapropisms: "BP, I'm a let you finish cleaning Gulf … But Barack Obama does not care about Louisiana jumbo shrimp! "