Ax to O: Etouffee is that-a-way  (ap photo)

Beltway is firmly on record suggesting that this time, President Obama stride purposefully back to the Gulf Coast in a dashing pair of lined, rubberized waders. They are just the thing to convey all that is lacking from the federal response — although possibly photographed at a bad angle, it could be John Kerry in the wormhole all over again.