I'm apparently in the minority around here re: Obama & BP.

[Jackpine Radical]

By leaving BP in charge, he's taking the only sensible course. The calamity is immense. I don't think that the government getting involved will shorten or mitigate the disaster in any way. All the government could do would be to assemble oil industry experts, and that has already happened. By leaving the whole thing in BP's hands, he is keeping the tail pinned where it should be. It's BP's disaster. If the government gets involved, the taxpayers end up paying for the cleanup. Leaving it this way, BP is paying, both in big bunches of money and in public opprobrium. If Obama takes it on, it will get fixed no faster, but it will become his problem rather than BP's. Why should he take on an albatross that he doesn't need to?

I'm often critical of Obama, but not on this one.