Obama Needs a Mulligan in the Gulf

Majority in Mississippi notes that while President Obama urges Americans to visit and vacation on the Gulf Coast, it is all too much of do what I say not what I do. He is going to Maine: 1750 miles away.

GOP.com invites Republicans to use a widget to list their personal choices for "The Top 5 Most Ridiculous Things Obama Has Done Since the Oil Spill." The choices at Play Golf or Save the Gulf:

Instead of attending a memorial service for the eleven workers killed, Obama flew to California to raise funds for Barbara Boxer

Obama went golfing ten times since the explosion in the Gulf

Obama turned down 13 countries that offered to help us clean up the Gulf

President Obama has refused to return BP's contributions; he is the largest recipient of their campaign donations over the past twenty years

Obama announced a job-killing drilling moratorium that could cost Louisiana $2.97 billion in revenue and 7,590 jobs directly related to the oil industry

Obama repeatedly denied requests from Gulf Coast lawmakers for necessary cleanup items like oil-blocking booms and skimmers

Obama originally denied Louisiana officials permission to build up barrier islands between the coast's marshes and the gulf

Obama let 10 days pass before sending any Cabinet-level officials to Louisiana's coast

Obama's Interior Department Chief of Staff rafted with wife on "work-focused" trip in Grand Canyon during the spill

Obama said that the Gulf disaster "echoes 9/11"

Obama attended private concerts by Paul McCartney and Kelly ClarksonObama took two vacations (one to his hometown Chicago and one to Asheville, North Carolina)
The liberal think tank Center for American Progress appears to have more influence on spill policy than the president's in-house advisers