In an interview with NBC’s Matt Lauer set to air later this morning, President Obama says he wants to know “whose ass to kick” in response to the Gulf oil spill:

“I was down there a month ago, before most of these talking heads were even paying attention to the Gulf. A month ago, I was meeting with fisherman down there, standing in the rain. . .We talk to these folks because they potentially had the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”

To review, the President of the United States is patting himself on the back for caring enough about an Old Testament-scale natural disaster to visit the scene eighteen days into it, and for caring about it before those lazy armchair pundits on the TV. (How many fire booms and Coast Guard clippers did Fox News deploy? That’s right, zero. Truly the Party of No.) And then he threatens to kick some ass.

All sounds perfectly reasonable to me. I mean, it’s not like he said he was “The Decider” or something similarly juvenile. This guy’s an adult.

Oh, and you can send your suggestions about which fundaments POTUS should calcitrate to Greg over at The Feed.