Kill Spill, Pass Bill! - As BP stems flow (for now), Obama asserts, "This disaster should serve as a wake-up call that it's time to move forward on" climate bill.

The 37th day since the explosion at the Deepwater Horizon oil rig saw several very dark clouds in the BP oil disaster, as well as a silver lining.

BP undertook a "top kill" maneuver to staunch the river of oil coming from the damaged well.   This effort involved shooting drilling muds into the drilling apparatus on the ocean floor to block the oil from escape:

In the top kill maneuver, a 30,000-horsepower engine aboard a ship injected heavy drill liquids through two narrow flow lines into the...