with the stalling, they re hoping to get this off the front page, the news cycle is going to change. at some point the new york times and cnn won t be focusing on it as much, and we won t be able to keep dion madding they act like a fair player. dudley s coming in now, he s from mississippi, he s in a mode that he knows how to talk to these parish presidents in louisiana. yet last week, they had a meeting and he blew them off 20 minutes before. here s dudley blowing them off last minute. it s a constant insult to not just louisiana, but to the united states. bp is this oil company that s making its money off the consumers in this country. it s about corporate arrogance on bp s part. if they don t act and pay people responsibly soon, i think the justice department, eric holder needs to make another trip to
might wind up just being forgotten as the country starts looking at them in the rearview mirror as assurances are given to them that the worst has passed. it has not passed economically for the people in the gulf of mexico, for most of them, it has just begun. doug brinkley, i assume you echo what the congressman just said? i agree with him. i think bp is trying to demobilize from the area. they re trying to get out. once that got capped, and they saw that it held up, their view is, we fulfilled our responsibility. with the stalling, they re hoping to get this off the front page, the news cycle is going to change. at some point the new york times and cnn won t be focusing on it as much, and we won t be able to keep demanding they act like a fair player. dudley s coming in now, he s from mississippi, he s in a mode that he knows how to talk to these parish presidents in louisiana. yet last week, they had a
region until ten days after the explosion occurred. it would be two weeks after the explosion occurred that we began to hear from members of congress from the region that you literally have fishermen standing on docks, you had parish presidents who were waiting for bp to give them permission to go out and deploy boom to protect their wetlands and their coastline. then we began to hear from governor bobby jindal about a delay in permitting for the construction of barrier islands. i think what s become clear to people at every end of the political spectrum and now even on the editorial pages of the new york times was that this administration was slow to respond but could it have done better? continues to fail to provide the energetic leadership that the american people expect and, candy, that the law demands. under the oil pollution act that was adopted after the exxon valdez disaster, it says that the president of the united states shall develop a plan to
you literally had fishermen standing on docks, you had parish presidents who were waiting for bp to give them permission to go out and deploy boom to protect their wetlands and their coastline. then we began to hear from governor bobby jindal about a delay in permitting for the construction of barrier islands. i think what s become clear to people at every end of the political spectrum, and now even on the editorial pages of the new york times, is that this administration was slow to respond and continues to fail but have they done better? continues to fail to provide the kind of energetic leadership, and candy, that the law demands. under the oil pollution act that was adopted after the exxon valdez disaster, it says the president of the united states shall develop a plan to dispel the discharge. but he s been down there, looking over it, he putted th t
out where we point a finger, who we assign a blame. what you see here in louisiana is an effort to solve the problem and i think you see parish presidents, you see the governor, you see now cabinet officers for the president and the president coming in here tomorrow, an effort to truly address the issue. and i think that where responsibility lies is going to be the subject of orderly examinations and certainry investigation but there is still a chance now to abate the difficulty. there is still a chance now to ensure that the oil slick doesn t create permanent damage. i hope you re right. it is going to have an effect. 200,000-gallons every day spewing out of the hole. they have been unsuccessful at capping it with the copper bronze gizmo they will put on top. i want to know why there is not a failsafe device on top of all those things. i remember the john wayne