pieces in the new york times about george bush and hill and dick cheney and halliburton. clearly a difference in the tone of coverage. i agree with kirsten there s not much the president can do. when you had assessments from the coast guard and bp that the initial spill may burn off, it was 1,000 barrels a day and kicked up to 5,000 barrels a day that s what triggered the action. i don t think if janet knapp knapp had been in louisiana five days ago sean: we saw the oil slick. we saw which direction it was coming. there s a lot we could have done to contain this. certainly, we should have sent people out there to at least assess the damage. assess the environmental impact. if they had acted earlier, there s a lot they could have done to contain it. they cordon off the areas where the oil slick is and have the ability to almost like vacuum out the oil as it was in the water.