That would be comparing apples and oranges, though. This comment makes the point:
At 6:12 PM , Blogger Darleen said...Someone posted a link to a federal law passed in 1990 (IIRC) giving the POTUS explicit, sweeping authority to respond to an oil spill in US waters. That, IMHO, should have been the first data point on the timeline posted here. Because it pins direct, concrete responsibility to Obama for whatever the Federal government had the capacity to do, and did not do, to ameliorate the damage due to Deepwater Horizon.My only quibble with the "Katrina" equivalence is that the evacuation of New Orleans and surrounding areas was a local/state issue and President Bush could not go in before being invited. IIRC the LA Gov Blanco specifically rebuffed offers from the admin to come in and coordinate. The BP oil rig is far beyond the 3 mile limit of state jurisdiction. It was the Fed's responsibility from the get-go. Obama and his administration is far more responsible than what happened during Katrina."
And, since his administration was responsible for the Coast Guard budget, he bears some responsibility as well for whatever capacity the government could have had, and did not. Meanwhile, there's a company which ramped up production of oil booms to clean up some of the mess - and neither BP nor Obama has ponied up a dime to get any of it. I guess Obama has tapped out the "stimulus" money paying government employee unionists . . .
“Someone posted a link to a federal law passed in 1990 (IIRC) giving the POTUS explicit, sweeping authority to respond to an oil spill in US waters. That, IMHO, should have been the first data point on the timeline posted here.” ~ conservatism_IS_compassion
I did:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2505164/posts?page=203#203