Political Lessons from Spill

Both parties are more interested in pointing fingers than refining their own beliefs and biases in response to the disaster. The environmental calamity exposes fundamental, fatal flaws in the philosophies of both parties. Therein lies the one prospect for good news from the gushing catastrophe: If the U.S. is to escape from the downward spiral it finds itself in, at least one of the parties must internalize the lessons of the spill.