chief of staff for the white house, rahm emanuel. that was 2008 and what he was he was in front of some wall street executives and it was at the height of the market collapse talking about how the financial system house of cards is falling and so you don t let a good crisis go to waste. what they did is they pushed for reform. we re coming up on 60 days of that gusher down in the gulf and now it sure sounds like the president and his men and women are using this as an excuse to pass their agenda. mitch mcconnell who will be on our show a little bit later has his response. here s john banor s. here s what he said. i sincerely hope the obama administration will not try to use a crisis made worse by its own failings on the backs of americans living and working on the gulf coast. this moment demands a call to action based on our shared interest in stopping this leak, cleaning up this mess and figuring out what went wrong. coming up on the show, we ll