Felony reporting…

From the ever-alert NewsBusters we learn that as of July 1,  getting within 65 feet of what the Coast Guard determines are essential recovery efforts will be a Class D felony,   punishable by a fine of up to $40,000.

CNN’s Anderson Cooper was  already furious about his team being blocked last week,  comparing such treatment to the Bush Administration’s similar actions during Katrina.   Except there were no such restrictions for Katrina…

Congressional Democrats  have blocked an amendment which would guarantee the press access to the Gulf spill.

Deepwater Horizon spill…

When even the leftish Guardian  notices His Oneness doing heavy public relations work on the  oil spill,  you know there’s something to it.    And Team Obama can’t have been pleased with The Australian’s saying the oil spill was  becoming his Katrina.

Meanwhile,  most American media is performing its own  cleanup job.     Chris Matthews found   a way to blame Dick Cheney and Haliburton,  with Rep.  Ed Markey’s assistance.

But ABC’s Jake Tapper  has reported that Interior’ s Chief of staff was rafting with his wife in the Grand Canyon while the oil slick spread.    That’s the same Interior Department which  exempted BP’s Gulf of Mexico drilling from its environmental impact study last year,  as reported by the WaPo.    Surely that had nothing to do with the fact that BP gave a  ton of money to Obama’s campaign,  so it can’t be that His Oneness is attacking BP for  political gain.   After all,  His Oneness must push back against  Rush’s criticism.

The government didn’t have a single  fire boom anywhere near the Gulf,   so it couldn’t follow the decade old emergency plan it had for such situations,  not that it appeared to be aware it even had such a plan.   BP is  working flat out,  has managed to cap one leak,  and is probably  working its engineers to death.

I wonder if Alabama AG Troy King would  be barking at BP if he weren’t running for re-election?   Trying to get people to agree not to sue your corporation in exchange for money is what a good corporate lawyer should be doing.