Enough is enough. Obama has been much too kind to BP and their efforts to salvage their precious oil well. The pattern with Obama continues to look the same for various issues which is to get pushed around and around before finally developing a backbone. It would save a lot of critical time and frustration if the backbone was firmed up earlier in the process. It's not a winning strategy and whether it's watching Wall Street chip away at regulation efforts (which even today, are watered down) or Big Oil ruin the environment, time is being lost.
Just as I was unimpressed with the mayor of New York being the voice of America during 9/11, I'm unimpressed with seeing BP as the lead source of information and effort for the oil disaster. Nobody elected BP and Americans don't live in the country of BP. It's the United States so why is it taking so long for the administration to act that way? We all know that if we saw the same reaction during the Bush years, we would have been losing it weeks ago and talking about the cozy relationship between Bush and Big Oil. When critics talk about both parties being corporatists, this is precisely what they're talking about. How different is this administration from the last?
It's an improvement to see more aggressive action, but the leadership gap continues to be a concern. Isn't it fair to expect more from our elected leaders as opposed to another fast talking corporation?
BP has "fallen short" in providing data about the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, the US government has said, in its latest critical letter to the firm.
The Obama administration said the British energy giant should act in a "transparent manner" and "promptly" make all information public.
Earlier, BP said more oil than the 5,000 barrels a day it first estimated were gushing from the burst well.
