Earlier I posted this from Chris Matthews:

MATTHEWS: Really? You know, I have a suspicion I’ll go back to it again. I don’t think they’re doing their best. I don’t think the government is doing its best. Why doesn’t the President go in there, nationalize an industry and get the job done for the people? There’s a national interest in this, not just a BP interest. We’re letting BP fix a national problem.

I bet Matthews is going to be pretty upset when he finds out the government doesn’t have a secret submarine to solve the problem immediately. Robert Gibbs on May 11:

Q Is there — I mean, was there any orders before yesterday to, hey, can we work on — can we have X agency working on figuring out alternative plans to plug the hole? Or was it all relied on BP?
MR. GIBBS: No, no, no. Chuck, we’ve been doing everything that we can. Some people have criticized, well, the military didn’t send a C-130 down until — I said this, I think at one point on the back of the plane, there’s not somewhere on a dock in Annapolis a secret submarine that will fix this leak.
I don’t mean that to be funny. I mean that it is — the President has asked that everything in our power be done. Everything in our power is being done. The frustration that the President has is that, despite all of that, and despite the efforts of others, there still continues to be a very large oil leak.