From TPM Reader DB, who appears to be from NOLA …
What’s been eating at me has been: 1) Why wasn’t the Obama administration more effective at getting accurate estimates of the oil flow rate?
2) Aren’t there resources beyond what BP had at the outset that should have been brought in to help solve these problems? Even if one accepts BP has more expertise than the government, what about getting scientists and the like from other oil companies? Or from other areas in the private sector? Why just BP? 3) Why does BP have so much authority in the clean-up efforts? 4) I’m a little ashamed to say it, but yeah, I want to see some ass getting kicked, maybe a rolling head. The enormity of BP’s blunder is too big to go without a swift slapdown of some kind. 5) The people whose livelihoods are threatened need immediate and sustained compensation and so far it looks like BP has been doing less than the minimum. 6) Also feel a bit like after the levees breached (I’m in New Orleans): People aren’t getting how bad it is. Where’s the primetime presidential address?
