UPDATE: Media Matters compiled a day-to-day rundown of the administration's response to the oil rig explosion, collapse and leak.
Here's Glenn Beck lying about the administration response to the oil spill.
Here's what the president said:
"From day one, we have prepared and planned for the worst," Obama said. "Your government will do whatever it takes, for as long as it takes, to stop this crisis."
And while the president never said they were "there" from day one as Beck suggests, the government was, in fact, there.
Explain this, Beck...
The Coast Guard is continuing to search for 11 missing oil workers following the explosion at a large rig off the Louisiana coast Tuesday, the Associated Press and other outlets report.
I know Glenn Beck fancies himself a reader who is self-schooled in basic 8th grade civics, so it's shocking that he doesn't know that the Coast Guard is part of the Executive Branch, and President Obama is the commander-in-chief of the Coast Guard. (Bear in mind, the rig is located in international waters not controlled by the United States.)
And according to the White House:
The response to the BP Oil Spill began as an emergency search and rescue mission by the U.S. Coast Guard and other partners on April 20.
Concurrently, command center operations were stood up immediately in the Gulf Coast to begin also addressing the environmental impact of the incident.
The morning after the explosion, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar deployed Deputy Secretary David J. Hayes down to the gulf to assist with coordination and response to the incident.
The Administration immediately began holding regular calls with BP leadership and numerous senior-level meetings have been held between the administration and BP to discuss BP's response effort and federal oversight and support.
The National Response Team (NRT), an organization of 16 federal departments and agencies responsible for coordinating emergency preparedness and response to oil and hazardous substance pollution incidents was quickly activated and a coordinated group of federal partners-including the United States Coast Guard, Departments of Homeland Security, Commerce, Interior and the Environmental Protection Agency-immediately began directing and overseeing BP's response...