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