For the last month, people have been saying that the BP oil spill might be President Obama’s Katrina.  I have been skeptical about this for a number of reasons.

First and foremost, before the massive oil spill could become Obama’s “Katrina” the liberal mainstream media would have to stop worshiping at the Altar of Obama and provide some unbiased reporting.  This type of reporting has been few and far between.

Allahpundit of Hot Air sums up the hypocrisy of the media:

Well, look on the bright side: If nothing else good comes from this disaster, at least now we have a roughly quantifiable sense of how long it takes for media outrage to build towards Obama versus towards Bush. Figure Dubya would have been under fire for dragging his feet on the spill after, what — maybe three days? It’s now 34 days since BP’s rig exploded and only yesterday did frustration really start bubbling on the Sunday chat shows.

Beyond the MSM mostly producing puff pieces or apologies for any of President Obama’s mistakes, there is the simple question of “did he do anything wrong?”

Initially, I looked at the “Obama’s Katrina” statements as nothing more than politics as usual.  An attempt by the right to return the favor for the blame that President Bush received due to the ineptitude of the governor of Louisiana and the mayor of New Orleans.  I am not a proponent of unfairly criticizing President Obazma, only because the press and left unfairly criticized President Bush.

However, now that we are over a month in, President Obama is clearly handling this massive disaster in a disastrous way.  Not only is he attempting to gain populous, political points by attacking BP and big business, which is Obama as usual, but more importantly he isn’t do anything to address the problem.  As an example, Louisiana has been waiting to get approval from the Corp of Engineers to use dredging ships to create a sand barrier around the Louisiana barrier islands.  Doing this would protect the delicate marshlands, but the Corp of Engineers refuses to approve the dredging, claiming they have to determine what impact it will have on the area first.

What “impact”?  Could it possibly have more impact than millions of gallons of oil flooding the marshlands, killing plant and animal life?

Rather than getting his hands dirty and helping solve the problem by picking up the phone and giving Louisiana permission to dredge and build the sand barrier islands, Obama is simply trying to make political hay by attacking BP and big business.  Talking about how he will keep his foot on the neck of BP and make them clean up their mess.

It’s time for the President to realize the American people don’t care about where his foot is, they care about their coastline.  He needs to get off the political stump and get to work solving the problem.  Start working with the Gulf Coast Governors to come up with solutions. Get them the oil booms, ships and skimming equipment they need.  There will be plenty of time for Obama to exploit the disaster for his political gain ‘after’ the spill is under control and the cleanup is done.

Is it Obama’s Katrina?  No, it’s far worse than that.

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