Why? Here's a little chunk of what Dickinson found:

"Salazar did little to tamp down on the lawlessness at MMS, beyond referring a few employees for criminal prosecution and ending a Bush-era program that allowed oil companies to make their "royalty" payments -- the amount they owe taxpayers for extracting a scarce public resource -- not in cash but in crude. And instead of putting the brakes on new offshore drilling, Salazar immediately throttled it up to record levels. Even though he had scrapped the Bush plan, Salazar put 53 million offshore acres up for lease in the Gulf in his first year alone -- an all-time high."

And even though as the "new sheriff in town" he promised to restore confidence in MMS, Dickinson writes:

"Salazar was far less aggressive, however, when it came to making good on his promise to fix MMS. Though he criticized the actions of "a few rotten apples" at the agency, he left long-serving lackeys of the oil industry in charge... One of the Bush-era managers whom Salazar left in place was John Goll, the agency's director for Alaska. Shortly after, the Interior secretary announced a reorganization of MMS in the wake of the Gulf disaster, Goll called a staff meeting and served cake decorated with the words "Drill, baby, drill."

Despite warnings from scientists and others within MMS:

"On April 6th of last year, less than a month after BP submitted its application, MMS gave the oil giant the go-ahead to drill in the Gulf without a comprehensive environmental review. The one-page approval put no restrictions on BP, issuing only a mild suggestion that would prove prescient: 'Exercise caution while drilling due to indications of shallow gas.'"

That's the condensed version of Dickinson's take on Salazar.

In March, President Obama stood with Salazar at Andrews Air Force Base and praised his Cabinet secretary as "one of the finest secretaries of Interior we've ever had."

Hogwash. The former Dairy Queen owner is in over his head. The only blizzards he's making now involve snowing the public about his role in this mess.

Peter Orszag, the White House budget director, is already heading out the door, the first Obama Cabinet secretary to call it day.

If the president really wants us to believe that he's in control of the oil mop-up operation and that nothing like this will ever happen again, he needs to fire Salazar.