But in a larger sense, the administration's lethally inept response to Hurricane Katrina had a lot to do with race.
The common result, of course, is inefficient thinking, an aversion to science and to numbers, inept responses to high school mathematics, overt failure and relatively few people going into scientific work.
The president bristled when the anchor asked about criticism that his inept response had to do with a "patrician upbringing" and about whether he was asking the country to sacrifice enough.
Because all the other levels of inept response from City, County and State were all DEMOCRATS.
If the inquiry is to accomplish more than to gloss over the government's inept response to terrorist threats during the last decade, it will have to hold present and former officials to account.
Politico also cited controversy over Lowden's use of a campaign supporter's RV, and "an inept response to a question about the Civil Rights Act" as reasons.
Ruaidrí's inept response to events led to rebellion by his sons in 1177, and his deposition by Conchobar Maenmaige Ua Conchobair in 1183.
An inept response by regulators failed to halt the infractions.
Dying, it had turned out, was often merely an inept response to the universe.
The contrast between the Pentagon's reaction to the latest crisis and its inept response during the Stark episode in May 1987 is illuminating.