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Oil Spill Suggestions: What Should the President Do?

McKay Coppins, writing in Newsweek, asked presidential historians to speculate how the past five U.S. presidents (going back to Jimmy Carter) would have handled the Gulf oil spill if they were in office. Although nobody really knows what how other presidents would have handled the disaster, it makes for an interesting discussion. We asked in an earlier post, “Will President Obama Follow the Lead of Jimmy Carter, or John F. Kennedy?” Our suggestion for the President has been to take action, and put the federal government in charge of the oil spill cleanup.

Given the scope of this catastrophe, affecting millions of U.S. citizens and businesses, this is no time for the President to rest his hopes on British Petroleum. BP has proven that (a) it can’t be believed, and (b) it is not up to the challenge. The truth is that there is only one entity that has both the incentive and the resources to meet the challenge of the Gulf oil spill, and that is the United States of America. [click to continue…]

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