He let the Democrats walk all over him for 8 years. Through his lack of communication, he let things like the Michael Moore movie manifest, take all the blame for the Iraq war, take blame for Katrina, take blame for Enron, allowed the joke 9-11 commission to form with guilty parties sitting in judgement, and now is allowing this crisis to be blamed on him as well.
He stands up to foreign enemies but not the domestic ones.