The Republican National party finally gives him THE order to do what he should have done 4 weeks ago. That is, do what he needed to do with state funds to defend his state and bill BP later. His secretary of the treasury has been SCREAMING on local radio for a month that building the berms would take 1% of the annual state budget.
.and make no mistake, he was playing the waiting game..making effing Democrats look as bad as possible per NPR policy..the "I want in national politics" game..

while his state died..some hero