Reply #90: We agree as to the scale of disaster and there is no good end regardless

[PufPuf23]

Where we differ in opinion, is in the politics of the situation.

POTUS Obama will be blamed as the event is on his watch. Politics compounded damage to the Democratic party by his worst case timing of supporting offshore drilling and a piss-poor appointment in Salazar.

If the disaster was federalized, the same entities (BP et al) would be doing the work but with more oversight and added expertise and resources and less ability for the perps to cover their asses.

I wrote about how the NEPA process failed elsewhere in this thread. IMO some of the perps are Feds and they can be identified by following the trail of the NEPA process. I would wager there will be whistle blowing scientists in abundance unless stiffled by the Feds.