Obama waited too long in Gulf disaster...

Doug Ross...further points out that much of the White House response thus far seems calculated to make trial lawyers happy, not find a solution to the crisis:

But the White House response has consisted of dispatching lawyers to New Orleans and shutting down other rigs that have nothing to do with the BP disaster. On April 30th - 10 days after the catastrophic explosion - the oil and gas news site RigZone reported that the White House had forbidden new drilling.

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