From Disaster to a Catastrophe In the Gulf – What’s Obama’s Endgame?

James Carafano / July 14, 2010

To many along the Gulf Coast, the oil spill response is Katrina… with a difference.

With Katrina, says Mark Riley, an official in Louisiana’s Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness Department, the problem was that the federal government showed up with its “hurricane bag” and found a disaster.

This time, they showed up with “oil spill bag and found a catastrophe.” (more…)