What's with the oil spill?

It seems like there has been a loss of interest in the Gulf oil spill spewing from the botched BP well. That's really unfortunate that the attention span has been exceeded and has now moved on to more important things, like Lindsey Lohan deservedly being sent to jail.

There has been so much mismanagement and dereliction of responsibilities it makes one wonder if anyone in the present administration really cares about the Gulf coast's environment. We have out of control bureaucrats making decisions when they don't have a clue about the ramifications of those decisions. They only think in terms of the small niche they occupy without any consideration for the big picture. An example, the worry over whether berms requested by Bobby Jindal would have an adverse effect on the environment, even though it's a forgone conclusion that oil in those wetlands would damage that which they purport to be concerned about.

There is going to be some short term damage, but even that could have been averted if there had been an active effort made to prevent the oil from reaching shore, by whatever means necessary.

It's something that could have been avoided with proper action, but instead we got inaction and hands tied for those who would have done something constructive.

The world isn't going to come to an end with this oil spill, since I have land that is an old well site (that surely had oil spilled at times) and I cut hay on it every year. Here's what it looked like when I first began getting it back in shape.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/Paul5388/Goldenrodtractor2.jpg
(I don't know why I can't get the image to appear, but the link is good for a copy and paste)
It's not exactly a barren piece of ground is it? It hasn't been destroyed to never be in condition to grow anything, is it? However, it also didn't have an uncontrolled amount of oil dumped on it for 3 months like what's happening in the Gulf!