As the massive oil slick started washing up on the shores of the Gulf Coast, waves of right-wing radio criticism of the Obama administration's handling of the environmental crisis began hitting the White House. Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh called the oil slick "Obama's Katrina." "He's getting even with his country for all of its transgressions in the past," Limbaugh said on his Friday show. "So we got an oil slick, added benefit, now he can cancel offshore drilling." The massive oil slick stems from an April 20 explosion that ripped through the Deepwater Horizon oil rig off the coast of Louisiana and left 11 workers missing and presumed dead. Though the rig sank two days later, oil has continued to pump from the drill head and experts are predicting that the environmental fallout will dwarf the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster that contaminated more than 200 miles of Alaskan shoreline. The White House had announced plans to expand offshore drilling earlier in April, before the disaster, in the interest of economic growth - a concession to administration critics. But the President ordered a halt of any additional offshore drilling until a cause of the explosion was determined, a move that has made "drill, baby, drill" proponents outraged.

Source: NY Daily News

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