[OldDeckHand]

'Napolitano before making the rather tenuous argument that the oil companies should decide where to drill because they are the ones losing the money."

After watching it, I thought that Napalitano made some insightful and thought provoking comments. He's absolutely right about the insurance comments, and the remark about the federal government "inspecting" or authorizing BP to drill a certain place or a certain way, with absolutely no subject-matter expertise at all.

Even Obama acknowledged that the fedgov had no earthly idea how to stop it and all the industry expertise was with BP. If that's true - as I assert it is - how is the fedgov supposed to effectively "oversee" it?

[SandRat]

Let the Oil companies work to stop it but the Feds should be marshalling all means and forces to do the clean up - booms, skimmers, sand barriers, etc., from every soorce available.