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Say, oops, well, don't blame me for the accident them didn't have the regulator that's proper. obviously, this san unprecedented oil spill. and the fact that they have been so, in my -- and the word keep coming to my mind, mealy-mouth british petroleum about the way they talk to the public, i haven't seen british petroleum educating anybody, in hideout mode, worried about lawsuits and constantly reeling information back in and putting it back out there. it has been awful. >> doug, i want james to get in. what do you make of that, james? >> they need not worry about lawsuits, they are going to ...

Conservationists, all in an effort to try to curtail some of thf offshore drilling and sloppy oil practices of big corporations. >> doug, you wrote the definitive book on hurricane katrina. a lot of folks are trying to say this is barack obama's katrina. is there any comparison? >> there's no comparison whatsoever between them. this was a corporate bungle. might be three or four corporations by the end of the day of a deadly magnitude. katrina hads a failure of the levees, and this is also an engineering failure, and there's a connection there. but the obama administration has done nothing wro...

Be held accountable and i mean strictly caccountable. >> james, you mentioned sports as an example here, therefore, we can use the term snake bit. do you think your state is snake bit? >> no my state is a victim of two massive engineering failures. what happened in orleans and st. bernard parish is an engineering failure. what happened in the gulf of mexico is an engineering failure. we are a victim of sloppy engineering and that is a real kind of a tragedy here. you know, storms are going gonna come, there is no doubt about it we were supposed to be protected and protected well against a stor...

But the government will have to spend money in resources. all of this area down here is so environmentally sensitive. whether it's florida, louisiana. lake pontchartrain, whatever. you really have extra steps. you know, it's one thing to drill in oklahoma and texas, and pennsylvania, and some other places. but when you go off shore and you get into these environmental areas, you really have got to be sensitive. >> all right, guys, ed rowlands and james carville. ten seconds, james. >> louisiana surrendered from two engineering disasters, katrina, and what happened in new orleans was an enginee...

Lot of people, who felt left behind. which was the single most engineering failure in history. the hurricane missed new orleans, the flooding did not. and since that moment, the federal response to it has been to meager and so grudging and there have been so many comments from around the country about, you know, why rebuild new orleans? it's below sea level, isn't it? great societies rebuild their great cities. and the response has left new orleanians looking at a different life. culture is what brought this city back. one crawfish buffet at a time. one st. joseph night at a time. one second l...