Yep, that’s my vote. I don’t expect him to work miracles — this is a crappy situation, and he no more caused it than President Bush II caused the 9/11 attacks, but he’s not even competently fulfilling basic executive functions in ways that could at least modestly mitigate the impact. He might as well just go play golf all day every day, for all the impact he’s had on managing this disaster.
Imagine, if you will, if Bush had been confronted by the BP oil spill.
Don't you imagine that he would've moved decisively to take action to mitigate the effects? The Dutch skimmer boats would've been immediately accepted, ample boom would've been purchased and deployed, the Jones Act would've been suspended. The silly actions of the EPA would've been reversed.
It's conceivable that very little oil would've reached the shoreline or fouled the fisheries.
Why would Bush have been successful with the BP oil spill...and not with Katrina? First off, he would've had a free hand to deal with the problem -- not like Katrina, where he was forced to work thru incompetents like Nagin and Blank-oh.