"Come Clean Mr. President"

RNC Chairman Michael Steele has a good re: line in a recent fundraising letter pointing out the lack of transparency in the Obama White House: "Come Clean Mr. President". Already the BP oil spill has seeped into the public consciousness as a metaphor for even more things characteristic of the current administration than simply ineptitude.

Heckuva Job, Kenny

The Obama Administration's Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, concedes that the administration has botched it on the Gulf of Mexico oil spill by failing to hold the industry accountable and ensure safe off-shore oil drilling

Salazar told Congress today that the administration is sticking to its "reform agenda" but will give "more tools, more resources, more independence and greater authority" to the Minerals Management Service, which regulates drilling in the Gulf of Mexico." I