Moratorium

Just for the record, every time we've suffered a major oil spill —EVERY TIME and regardless of which party was in power! — we've put a 6 month to one year moratorium on the activity that caused the spill.

We've shown that we can drill in deep water but we don't have a way to fix the problems that might occur as a result of that drilling ... and only deep water drilling is affected by the moratorium (shallow water drilling will continue).

While I really do understand the economic impact the moratorium will have on an area that has yet to recover from Katrina (and all those other hurricanes), please, let's not be disingenuous and imply that Pres. Obama is doing something out of the ordinary.