Obama is increasingly under fire to stop oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico. He can only really put pressure on BP as the federal government has no equipment to deal with this disaster itself, but the President and his administration are worried that this could turn out to be a Hurricane Katrina moment for his presidency. Mark Mardell has been following the story and writing some excellent analysis of what it means. Here is some footage of how BP's latest attempt to plug the leak is going. Obama is to head down to Louisiana for the second time today to see the real damage that it is already causing. How much longer can the administration wait before intervening or can they intervene? What does this mean for the administration's energy policy and the administration itself?
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