Not Spilling Much Ink Over This Story

You know, if the Interior Administration under Bush had exempted BP from an environmental impact analysis on its drilling operation in he Gulf of Mexico prior to the oil spill, we'd hear a lot about how government doesn't work well under conservatives because they don't believe in government.  Maybe this is yet another signal that the real problem is that government regulators can't always do their jobs well, in part because there's too much to do, and in part because bureaucracy is pretty inefficient.