One woman summed it up: “The spill makes us sad, but the moratorium makes us mad.” The governor and senators of the state called for an end to the moratorium. In partial response, President Obama ended it a month early, but that earned him no points with those I spoke with. “What did Obama know up there in Washington?” they asked. In the speeches of the two congressmen a few years later, not a word was said about the spill.
