On Tue, Jul 6, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote:

> It depends on the items and what time scale they run on. For example,
> failures in the management response to the BP oil catastrophe, totally
> on his shoulders. The lack of oversight by MMS that lead to it, I'd
> say probably shared responsibility. A lot of the culture at MMS was
> instilled in a very Big Oil friendly Bush admin, but the Obama admin
> obviously didn't place it as a high priority to change that culture.

That rig was built in 2000 and we still don't know what caused it to
explode. Sounds more like recent events than things from the past but
time will tell.

> For the economic stuff, some things take awhile to effect the system,
> some things a shorter time. Turning an economy the size of the US in
> any direction is not a quick thing.

Not to mention maintaining the longest recession in history is no easy task.

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