i didn't pay any attention to the american political fallout from the BP gulf disaster while i was in kaz.
what i find fascinating is how little attention the disaster is getting now even though it's still just as bad as ever and getting worse. i assume it's because the coverage saturated at the beginning, which would dampen any enthusiasm for follow-up stories a month and one-half later. i mostly missed the saturation, so the relatively light coverage seems completely disproportionate to what is going on.
or perhaps the lack of coverage has more to do with a lack of solutions. it seems to me that we have the technology to create an undersea gush, but not to stop one. the things we can do keep failing. it's harder to talk about a mess when you don't have a real answer. and maybe there are just more pressing things to cover.
not that people trying to make political hay of the matter aren't trying. like this post from the heritage foundation blog. (via golden boy on FB) not a single thing on their "to do list" would address the source of the problem, continuous the gush of oil into the gulf. two of the suggestions (#3 and #10) would not even do anything to clean up the oil that was already released. in fact, #3 would potentially make it worse.
