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Is mainly a failure of the administration. bp caused the spill. bp's responsibility is to plug the leak. the federal government is in charge of trying to keep that oil off of the shores of the united states. it took the administration 70 days to order skimmers down to the gulf. >> in terms, though -- >> my point is you can't legislate competence. i think it's -- we're happy to look at oil spill legislation. for example, do we have the right kind of commission in place to look at what happened. there are aspects of that that might require legislation. but this has mainly been a competence probl...

Possible that we would do something with regard to the oil spill, although i must say this is mainly a failure of the administration. bp caused the spill. bp's responsibility is to plug the leak. the federal government is in charge of trying to keep that oil off of the shores of the united states. it took the administration 70 days to order skimmers down to the gulf. >> in terms though -- >> my point is you can't legislate competence. we're happy to look at oil spill legislation. for example, do we have the right kind of commission in place to look at what happened. there are aspects of that t...

Complete control. they certainly have allowed this crisis to get away from them. shannon: we heard many in the administration kind of saying this meeting wasn't really necessary, that it didn't need to happen. was it more about message than consent this meeting today? >> so much of this white house is about illusion, messaging. the healthcare debate, it was all about, they say we have a communications problem not a competence problem. this brings into bold relief this is a content and competence problem. they believe they have a messaging problem, we are not communicating with the american peo...

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