Mitch Landrieu, David Vitter Talk Oil Spill On National Cable Networks
Times-Picayune (excerpt)

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu appeared on CNN's "State of the Union" Sunday morning, and U.S. Sen. David Vitter was on the Fox News Channel. Landrieu spoke about the apparent success of capping the BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico and his oppostion to the federal ban on deepwater offshore oil drilling. Vitter, meanwhile, criticized President Barack Obama for not returning to the oil-stricken Gulf South since early June. "I'm afraid he's decided to deal with this issue, at least politically, by not coming back here and trying to move it off the front page rather than dealing with the situation forcefully," Vitter said on "Fox News Sunday." "He was coming here on a pretty regular basis. ... He hasn't done that in Louisiana since June 4. That's personally disappointing to me."