The White House just released a letter from oil spill czar Thad Allen to the chairman of BP inviting him and other appropriate company officials to a meeting at the White House next Wednesday with the President.

I’m not sure what Obama meeting directly with BP officials is supposed to accomplish, but at least we won’t have to keep hearing about Obama’s failure to meet with them and how that’s a huge mistake.

David Kurtz

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