Damage Control

The White House is suddenly feeling heat for their relative inaction during the first nine days of the Gulf oil spill:

President Obama plans to visit the catastrophe zone off Lousiana's coast within the next 48 hours as SecDef Gates mobilizes the Lousiana National Guard and WH convenes a principal-level homeland security response meeting. Republicans begin to question speed of Obama's response. Hannity: "They did nothing for nine days." ...

John at Powerline has a good analysis of whether Obama could rightfully be blamed for the extent of the oil disaster.

Of course, you know Bush would have been had he done exactly the same thing Obama did.