REPLACE THEM WITH WHOM?

If you could control an oil spill with lawyers and regulation-writers, and by signing papers and obtaining court injunctions ... then maybe the U.S. government could do something," said Byron W. King, an energy analyst at Agora Financial. "But really, Uncle Sam has almost no institutional ability to control the oil spill. For that, you need people with technical authority, technical skill and firms with industrial capabilities.

So explain to me why the Obama administration - and the Governor of Florida - continue to threaten and vilify the only team in town with the skill and industrial capability to stop the oil spill.