Many folks, me included, early on labelled the Gulf Oil Rig crisis as "Obama's Katrina". Of course we were referring to the same public relations death trap that the Bush Administration allowed itself to get dragged into after the famous hurricane by the name pummeled the gulf coast on August 29, 2005.
And sure enough, the Obama Administration in clumsy form has been dragged into that self-fulfilling prophacy because they have looked dumb in the face of a crisis where they could easily have shined!
The differences between Hurricane Katrina and the Oil Rig are as contrasty as night and day, and those differences should have been vastly in favor of the Obama Administration. But being the pure leftist and stateists that they are, they revert true to form and really step in the Goo as a result of their own egotistical behavior.
Katrina was a huge, slow moving storm. FEMA actually did a good job of pre-positioning resources to move in after the storm passed. It was the sudden, later, failure of levees in New Orleans that caused so much grief and negative publicity (the Coast Guard saved the day by the way).
The Oil Rig was a huge surprise from day one. From that first day to this day, the only entity that can stop the flow of oil is BP specifically and the oil industry in general. Big government has nothing to offer. Yet, instead of partnering with BP and trying to support them, the Obama Administration went on a bashing spree. Those few things it could actually do to help Lousiana (berm building permits) it has done poorly and at a glacial pace.
As a public relations albatross, the Oil Rig is indeed Obama's Katrina.
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