[quote]You can’t imply that there should be more government intervention in private business and at the same time defend the government for incompetence when they say they are on top of things. You can’t have it both ways.[/quote]
Yeah you can. It’s easier to prevent a spill than to fix a spill. Excessive Bush-era libertarianisation made the spill possible. Now that it happened, neither the government, nor the private sector know how to close it. That’s not incompetence, that’s a simple fact of nature.