Opportunity or Disaster for Battered Bush

From the Los Angeles Times:

Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast this week just as President Bush's public approval rating hit an all-time low. How he handles the aftermath of the monster storm could, in the short term, burnish the president's leadership image at a time when some problems uppermost in voters' minds — including violence in Iraq and high gasoline prices — seem unsolvable.

But public impatience with the pace of recovery or painful economic fallout from the storm that spreads across the country also loom as potential political menace.