Obama Outraged Over BP, Federal Oil Regulators, Axelrod Says [View All]

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Source: Bloomberg via Business Week

May 26, 2010, 6:58 PM EDT

By Edwin Chen and Julianna Goldman

May 26 (Bloomberg) -- President Barack Obama’s outrage over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill has reached “the upper scale,” and it is directed at both BP Plc and federal regulators, senior White House adviser David Axelrod said today.

“His anger and frustration about those things, and his anger and frustration about any attempt to obfuscate the amount of damage that’s been done by the company is great,” Axelrod said in an interview on the eve of the release of a report on the spill from Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

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Obama, in planned remarks tomorrow, will speak about the Salazar report and “lay out some new thoughts on how to proceed on drilling,” White House spokesman Bill Burton said today. On May 28, the president will visit the gulf region for the second time since the oil rig caught fire.

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The president’s top political adviser declined to quote Obama’s words, saying: “Knowing that Bloomberg is a family news service, I can’t share with you what he said.”



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In this case it's nice to read of some presidential outrage.