DAVID GREENE, Host: NPR's Frank Morris has that story.</s>FRANK MORRIS: Just off a boat ride through some of the hardest-hit marshes at the mouth of the Mississippi River, a rail-thin man in a black T-shirt and cap steps to the microphone.</s>FRANK MORRIS: What's really happening out there is nothing.</s>FRANK MORRIS: That's James Carville, former President Clinton's savvy strategist.</s>FRANK MORRIS: The silence that - you could've been in Antarctica. There were no boats. There were no activity. There was no anything.</s>FRANK MORRIS: Governor Bobby Jindal, a rising star in the Republican Party, couldn't agree more. What really bugs him is that he hasn't been able to get permission, let alone federal help, to build miles of linear sand piles just offshore - berms to block the advancing oil.</s>DAVID GREENE, Host: Every day we wait for this permit is another day of delay, is another day that this question has been answered for us that we're going to have to fight this oil in our wetlands instead of on these barrier islands.</s>FRANK MORRIS: For NPR News, I'm Frank Morris in Venice, Louisiana.
Frustration continues to mount as oil from the blown out well in the Gulf of Mexico attacks the delicate coast of Louisiana. The desperation has inspired a common cause between natural political enemies.