Brice OHara

Obama's Oil Spill Response: On Top of It, or Too Little Too Late?

On Thursday, President Obama stood in front of a skeptical Washington press corps -- and a skeptical American public -- and defended his administration's response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, saying, "I'm confident that people are going to look back and say that this administration was on top of what was an unprecedented crisis." It has been 37 days since the Deepwater's catastrophic explosion, which killed 11 workers and spilled millions of barrels of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, threatening vast underwater ecosystems, shutting down local economies, and infuriating not only ...

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