In other words, Dolan was a failure, and was rewarded by being put in charge of a bigger, more important diocese, so he could fail some more.
No. Just the opposite.
Bishop Dolan was given the very difficult assignment of cleaning up the mess in the diocese of Milwaukee. In spite of being sabotaged by the homosexual network already in place he got rid of many of them and helped clean up the Archdiocese.
The homosexuals already in place were discovered and removed. Many of them had sexually molested the sons of parishioners and had been protected by Archbishop Weakland. The lawsuits against the diocese for these earlier crimes forced them to seek protection in bankruptcy court.
Bishop Dolan did a very difficult and thankless job of removing the homosexual network from the diocese. He deserves credit for what he did.