OIL MESSED UP: Anger grows along the Gulf Coast at the Obama administration’s pathetic response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history.

[T]his government ... has created a perfect storm of bureaucratic and regulatory gridlock around the Deep-water Horizon disaster. Whatever is done to prevent the oil from coming ashore must be approved by the EPA, OSHA, the Army Corps of Engineers, the Coast Guard, and a host of lesser bureaucracies.

And so nothing gets done. As Norman Augustine put it in Augustine’s Laws, “If a sufficient number of management layers are superimposed on top of each other, it can be assured that disaster is not left to chance (Law XXVI).”