USA Today – Is oil spill Obama’s Katrina? Where’s the clean-up?!
The hurricane that drowned New Orleans and cast George W. Bush as out of touch swept across the Gulf Coast nearly five years ago. Now, as oil laps ashore in the very same region, local officials are asking: Is there another government-Gulf Coast disconnect? Is BP’s oil spill becoming this president’s Katrina?
President Obama will face questions today at his first news conference since oil started gushing five weeks ago.
Frustrated Gulf Coast residents say they understand that only BP can plug the leak. But they want to know why the federal government didn’t act faster to stop the oil from reaching shore, why BP hasn’t been forced to skim more oil from the surface and why their request hasn’t been approved to build new barrier islands to help keep the oil at bay.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2010-05-27-Spill-poll_N.htm
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