Video Below is of Senator LeMieux explaining the failure.
Money quote: "They said to me, look, some of these skimmers we can't take from other places in the country because they may need them for an oil spill. That's like me saying well I can't sent a fire truck to your house that is burning down because another house may burn down, it just doesn't make any sense."
Could Obama be more incompetent?
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