Today marks the one month anniversary of the oil platform explosion that has spilled millions of gallons of fuel into the Gulf of Mexico and threatens ecological systems far and wide.

I defended the White House when people were throwing “Obama’s Katrina” around and I must say, I’ve had a change of heart.

To have trusted the intentions of British Petroleum from the start, when they claimed only a small percentage of oil was spilling out, is a a very serious indictment of the intelligence and reality testing of the governments environmental protectors.

Come on, people, if this had been me or any reasonable thinking citizen in command of the protective resources, we would have had every world wide expert in offshore drilling disasters put on retainer and surrounding that broken platform. On the level of photo op alone, this was just too good a chance for the Obama administration to shine. And they absolutely blew it.

As millions more barrels of oil pour into the ocean, we watch the credibility of Obama’s team torn asunder, perhaps never to recover from this screw up of historic proportions.

And that’s something to think about. I’m W J O’Reilly.