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Hostage to a federal bureaucracy the executive seems unwilling to control. As fiction author and Alabaman Winston Groom puts it, they have created:

“…a perfect storm of bureaucratic and regulatory gridlock around the Deep-water Horizon disaster. Whatever is done to prevent the oil from coming ashore must be approved by the EPA, OSHA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Coast Guard, and a host of lesser bureaucracies….It seems oil skimming or booming requires taking courses and passing tests given by the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration. Otherwise you run the risk of being arrested.”

Whatever happened to the Hope and Change sales pitch?