Americans have been anxiously waiting for President Obama to take full charge of the gulf oil catastrophe. He pledged to do that on Tuesday in his first address from the Oval Office, vowing to “fight this spill with everything we’ve got for as long as it takes” and declaring that “we will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused.”
Mr. Obama and his team will have to follow through — with more energy and dedication than they have shown so far.
We know that the country is eager for reassurance. We’re not sure the American people got it on Tuesday night in a speech that was short on specifics and lacking in self-criticism. Certainly, we hope that Mr. Obama was right when he predicted that in “coming days and weeks,” up to 90 percent of the oil leaking from the well will be captured and the well finally capped by this summer. But he was less than frank about his own administration’s faltering efforts so far to manage this vast environmental and human disaster. More...
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