I mentioned some of these comments yesterday, but here is a video and transcript of GOP Senate candidate Marco Rubio describing the frustration among Florida residents as they watch more and more of their beaches become endangered by the Gulf spill:

. . . Clearly British Petroleum is responsible for the spill, but the federal government is responsible for the cleanup, and the fiasco that that effort has been.
They’ve been slow, they’ve been ineffective, they’ve been bureaucratic, and the evidence is that as of yesterday, real oil is now starting to wash up on our beaches, and let me tell you why that’s an outrage.
Number one, northwest Florida, which is the area being affected now, these are some of the most beautiful beaches in the world and some of the best fishing in the world. It’s an economic engine. People have made their living off of fishing and the beaches for decades. But it’s also a way of life, and people in Florida have grown up creating family memories by fishing and going out on the ocean and taking the family to the beach. All of that is being ruined, perhaps for a generation, because of what’s happened.
This is the most powerful country in the world, in the history of the world. You would think that at this point we would have every skimmer on the planet earth working on the Gulf Coast. The response has been lackadaisical and incomprehensible and unacceptable. The bureaucracy, the red tape, the lack of resources — all of these things have really created a level of extraordinary frustration that is reaching a boiling point in Florida, as it has already in Louisiana. So, we’re watching that very closely.

Of course, there was some time for some lighter topics:

Me: One last thing. The last time I spoke to you, when you came to National Review, last summer you said you had faith in Chad Pennington . . . What were you thinking? Do you regret that decision?
Rubio: I don’t! He got hurt!
Me: And can your campaign overcome this?
Rubio: Hey, listen, it opened the door for Chad Henne, and now, you know, Chad Pennington is still the third-string quarterback for the Dolphins which is a pretty good third-stringer to have.
Me: That’s true.
Rubio: Probably the best backup quarterback in the NFL.
Me: The best backup backup quarterback.
Rubio: Our second-string guy, Tyler Thigpen, is a really good player. People don’t know a lot about him. He’s a really athletic guy.
Me: He survived Kansas City!
Rubio: He did well in Kansas City, people forget that! He had a dysfunctional team, and had like, four 300-yard games.

(I like Chad Pennington a great deal, but note that he seems to suffer a career-threatening injury biannually and that he ought to have one of those buy-six-get-one-free sandwich cards for his orthopedic surgeon.)