told a group of reporters that containment systems for gushing wells still needed work. here s what he said, these containment systems are a work in progress. both systems currently have limitations on water depts and barrel-per-day containment capability. so we re barreling straight ahead, even though containment systems are a work in progress. that sounds disastrous. in other words, if something goes wrong, oopse, we were in the middle of a work in progress. but to republicans, of course that s still not good enough. they re calling for more drilling, baby. when you shut down drilling, higher prices and fewer jobs are sure to follow. fewer jobs for republicans who get paid by those oil companies. to that end, republicans are pushing measures in the house and senate that would speed up the permits and open up new areas for drilling. they want to do that, even