BP ANNOUNCES ‘TOP KILL’ PROCEDURE has failed to plug the oil leak in the Gulf, yet another setback in trying to control the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

So -- now that the President has announced that he is 'in charge' why doesn’t he just walk out to the spill site and command the oil to stop flowing? Isn’t he the man who, two years ago this week, "declared that his very nomination as Democratic-party presidential candidate (never mind his election, or inauguration) marked the moment when ‘our planet began to heal’ and ‘the rise of the oceans began to slow’?"