The Coast Guard is saying this afternoon that it's pretty bad. The New York Times calls Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen's report "gloomy." And the cleanup is going to go on forever -- a background to the mid-terms and everything else on America's plate for "years."
“It’s the breadth and complexity of the disaggregation of the oil,” that is now posing the greatest clean-up challenge, Coast Guard Admiral Thad W. Allen said at a news conference at the White House.
He underscored the challenge by acknowledging, in response to a reporter’s question, that it would take years to mitigate the impact of the spill on the marshes, beaches and wildlife on the Gulf Coast. Just the day before, he had said that it could take well into autumn to deal with the slick spreading relentlessly across four states of the gulf.
“This is a long campaign and we’re going to be dealing with this for the foreseeable future,” he said.
Do the powers that be throw us any sops? Sure. The amount of oil being captured today has increased slightly. Gloomy cheer.
