October 10th, 2010
As you may have heard, the independent panel appointed by President Obama to investigate the government’s handling of the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico has accused the White House of seriously underestimating the scale of the disaster, resulting in an overly-optimistic emergency response. I find this news most unsettling. It seems to make comparisons between this disaster and the Bush Administration’s incompetent response to Hurricane Katrina more appropriate than I’d previously thought.
