Reply #6: How do you define "working well"?

[BzaDem]

My guess is that you define "working well" to be what you WANT to happen (stopping the leak) as opposed to the optimal solution in REALITY (which might be FAR FROM being able to stop the leak tomorrow or even the next few weeks).

While we certainly are not "working well" under your land-of-unicorns definition of the term, we might or might not be "working well" under the reality-based one. I really don't know. I'm simply saying that Obama MIGHT have considered other options and dismissed them after careful analysis. (Or maybe he didn't.) But it is stupid to draw the conclusion that the Obama admin is not doing their best just because the outcome doesn't match your imaginary outcome (as opposed to the optimal outcome in reality).