“Plug the damn hole.”

Really, Obama? That’s your solution?

I suppose now that you’ve angrily chastised BP, they’ll magically find a way that works, because that’s what it really takes – a presidential missive to “plug the damn hole.”

Brilliant.

“If you could control an oil spill with lawyers and regulation-writers, and by signing papers and obtaining court injunctions . . . then maybe the U.S. government could do something,” said Byron W. King, an energy analyst at Agora Financial. “But really, Uncle Sam has almost no institutional ability to control the oil spill. For that, you need people with technical authority, technical skill and firms with industrial capabilities.”

Now that makes more sense. Yelling at people isn’t how you solve problems.

If the federal government thinks they can solve it, why don’t they just do so instead of complaining about how BP is handling things? Oh, that’s right, they don’t have a better solution, they just want to shout from the sidelines.