"Plug That Damn Hole" Not

Well, President Obama's short lived dream that he had something to do with yesterday's hopeful reports that the oil well in the Gulf has been plugged went down the drain today.
Today, BP announced that the "Top Kill" procedure did not work and they are trying plan "Q".
From Fox News: "BP admitted defeat Saturday in its attempt to plug the Gulf of Mexico oil leak by pumping mud into a busted well, but said it's preparing yet another method to fight the spill after a series of failures.
BP PLC Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said the company determined the "top kill" method had failed after after it spent three days pumping heavy drilling mud into the crippled well 5,000 feet underwater.
"This scares everybody, the fact that we can't make this well stop flowing, the fact that we haven't succeeded so far," Suttles said. "Many of the things we're trying have been done on the surface before, but have never been tried at 5,000 feet.""
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/29/bp-says-latest-effort-plug-leak-succeeded-mulling-options/
Let's hope the next option works or stems the oil flow. Let's hope the oil company and their scientists are able to figure this out. In some ways, this is the new frontier in oil drilling and managing emergencies. And maybe now, the Obama administration will now realize that it is more important to drill on the ground rather in the deep reaches of the oceans and he opens up more areas to drill instead of restricting areas to drill.