President Obama spoke this afternoon in forceful terms about the oil spill:
"I did not appreciate what I considered to be a ridiculous spectacle during the congressional hearings into this matter. You had executives of BP and Transocean and Halliburton falling over each other to point the finger of blame at somebody else," the president said.
I don't think this is the last time we'll hear tough words from the president on this. From what I can tell, we're only in Act One of an increasingly tragic story.