Boy, is Joe Klein a schmo or what?Blaming this oil spill crisis on the Bush administration is not selling, and isn't going to help Obama at all. Instead, it makes the left look evasive and pathetic. Democrats have had control of Congress since 2006. They're always talking about exercising oversight over the bureaucracy. Where were they?

The fact is that the bureaucracy is more or less permanent. Only the people at the top ever change, which is one of the reasons why big government is a mistake. The founders knew that from experience, which is one of the reasons they created a limited federal government and reserved all non-numerated powers to the states and the people.