Democratic strategist James Carville and MSNBC anchor Chris Matthews, two reliable supporters of President Barack Obama, have issued withering critiques of the administration's handling of the Gulf oil spill.
Carville, the famously outspoken Louisianian who was a chief political aide to Bill and Hillary Clinton, told CNN's Anderson Cooper on Thursday that the administration's response to the spill has been "lackadaisical" and that Obama was "naive" to trust BP to manage the massive clean-up effort.
"I think they actually believe that BP has some kind of a good motivation here," he said. "They're naive! BP is trying to save money, save everything they can... They won't tell us anything, and oddly enough, the government seems to be going along with it! Somebody has got to, like shake them and say, 'These people don't wish you well! They're going to take you down!'"
Big business and free markets have no interest in doing the right thing without some law telling them to do it. Carville is an opportunist a lot of the times when it comes to Barack, so add a miracle clean-up of a monumental oil spill to the list of grievances he has against the President.
While this is not Obama's Katrina, his administration has to kick it up a notch. Hurricane season is just around the corner.
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