The Government Official In Charge of Responding to the Oil Spill Was the Official In Charge of Responding to Hurricane Katrina http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2010/05/government-official-in-charge-of.html

Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced that she was changing the federal leadership of the oil spill operations. Adm. Thad W. Allen, the commandant of the Coast Guard, is now directly overseeing the work of Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, who had been in charge of the response. Admiral Allen was in charge of the federal response to Hurricane Katrina. 

The same guy who oversaw the brilliant government response to Katrina is overseeing its response to the Gulf oil spill?Well, that's confidence-inspiring ...