A THOROUGHLY DISGUSTING PERFORMANCE: “A clearly frustrated President Obama on Friday said that the system for preventing accidents like the April 20 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico ‘failed badly,’ while calling the ‘blame game’ among oil executives at Senate hearings this week ‘a ridiculous spectacle’."

This by the man who started the “blame game” himself.

Mr. Obama, until the leak is completely and thoroughly plugged up, if you don’t have something constructive to say, please shut up.

The first order of business is to plug the damn leak. The second order of business is to clean up the mess. The third order of business is to find out what happened – and how it happened.

The last order of business is to assign blame, and Mr. President, as an engineer with 30+ years of experience, I can assure that there will be plenty of blame to pass around, and some of it will be on your watch.

I can say with absolute certainty that when the final report is written, it will be shown that the explosion and subsequent events will prove to have been caused by a number of mistakes, errors of judgement, communication lapses, mechanical failures and unanticipated problems, some serious, most not so serious, that had they occured in a different sequence would not have resulted in a catastrophic failure.

There will be a valuable lesson to be learned from the Deepwater Horizon explosion: leave the ’blamestorming’ for last. That the lesson will be learned is unlikely.