republicans are on national TV complaning about Federal response and what they would do.
National Guards have been available to them, that they could have used to set up booms from coast to coast..all the things that they could have gotten into place.
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/US/06/03/oil.spill.guard /
Washington (CNN) -- While local officials are calling for more federal government -- specifically military -- help with the oil cleanup, only a fraction of thousands of authorized, federally funded National Guard troops have been put into service.
Last month, the Pentagon approved the use of up to 17,500 National Guard members to help in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill relief efforts, at the request of governors in four states. But only about 1,400 have been actively engaged.
In Louisiana, 1,100 of the 6,000 authorized National Guard have been deployed.
Alabama is using just 280 troops out of an authorized 3,000. Mississippi has called 70 Guard members into active duty out of an available 6,000, and Florida has only seven National Guard troops on oil-spill duty out of an authorized 2,500.
