Meanwhile, Back at the Real World...

Oil Spill: In the Oil Spill case, the evil was done years ago during the unholy Republican-oil Industry alliance, and during years of deliberate efforts to gut the morale, expertise, and will to act of regulatory agencies.

Let's face it, why would the best people even want to go into government regulatory work, when all you get is months of delay in congressional confirmations and a constant round of pushes and pulls and public humiliation? We have the federal agencies we seem to want: ineffective ones.

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