Chris Matthews criticized the Commander in Chief for not seizing control of the disaster.

"I think this is more like the Iranian hostage crisis that brought down Jimmy Carter than Katrina," he said.

The following day a Reuters blogger furthered the thought.

"Then the problem isn’t Obama’s Katrina, it is his Iranian hostage crisis — a long-term problem he has no control over that continually drains his political capital and popularity," wrote James Pethokoukis.