From this morning’s “Morning Jolt”:

The Heritage Foundation has a team in the Gulf researching the federal response to the oil spill: “A team of experts from The Heritage Foundation left port at Myrtle Grove, Louisiana to tour marshes, wetlands, estuaries and lakes from Venice to Grand Isle, and spoke with officials leading the cleanup and protection efforts. One message was made extremely clear: The lack of urgency from the federal government remains. The Heritage team witnessed workers collecting boom saturated in oil and other boats maintaining and placing new boom. The edges of several marsh patches were visibly stained black and although some areas already showed signs of recovery, had Governor Bobby Jindal’s proposal for building barrier islands been approved from the beginning, the oil would not have even reached these marshes.”

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