by Randy Rieland. With Attorney General Eric Holder now huddling with Gulf states attorneys general , the uneasy relationship between BP and the Obama administration is taking the ugly but inevitable “see you in court” turn. The White House is so anxious to separate itself from the BP stink that from now on only Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen will do daily briefings on the spill, with no BP exec in sight. And yet, as The Washington Post ’s Joel Achenbach and Jerry Markon point out , this creates quite the awkward situation. Obama desperately needs BP to succeed. His status as a leader erodes with each day of gushing-oil webcasts from the sea bottom.

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