Here's what I just sent:
Mr. President:
I was a supporter of yours during the election and since. I sent money; my car wore Obama and Obama/Biden stickers on three sides.
A month into what appears to be the world's worst environmental disaster in history, I do NOT want to be hearing about commission-forming.
Let ME be clear, sir: this is an emergency. Not only do you need to be directing the permanent and immediate stop to this oil rupture, whether it is through a detonation or sealing it in some sort of solidifying material, you need to recognize deepwater oil drilling for the folly it demonstrably is and declare it OVER for all time and you need to eviscerate BP and its contractors with all appropriate fervor and furor: kick them out of the United States; close their convenience stores, seize their assets and sell them off until there's not a speck of green, white, and yellow left in this country.
And when all of this is done, you need to recognize that oil production in the US is past its peak and has nowhere safe left to go, and we had better throw everything we have into the end-to-end infrastructure we will need to power our vehicles some other way and reduce the amount to which we are compelled to do so to maintain our personal livelihoods.
What, do you want to wait until some other country with skin in the game (i.e., they border oceans also) comes to do it FOR us? Can you process what that would mean to the world? A United States not just "too big to fail" but too slow and stupid to fix an oil leak it signed papers to let happen??
I acted to vote out one party partially on the basis of its arrogantly willful stupidity; I am prepared to do it again.
Now, get out there and SEAL THAT WELL.
Hilariously enough, the captcha I had to enter to submit my message read "carnage received."