Eh. Presidents take hits for disasters on their watch. This is not new.

What is interesting to watch is the new crop of experts on deep ocean recon and operations that appear to have sprung up to demand that Obama should have deployed the Navy immediately to shut off the oil.

Not sure exactly how, mind you -- I supposed we could have ordered a Los Angeles Class attack sub to have torpedoed the well head.

Or perhaps an uncontolled gusher a mile down is unprecedented and there are no good contingencies for it.