In a classic Friday afternoon news dump, BP has apparently demoted the bumbling Tony Hayward. According to the New York Times:

A day after he came under relentless attack at a Congressional hearing, BP chief executive Tony Hayward was displaced as the man in charge of the company's response to the spill.

This move might have made sense a month ago, when it first became clear that Hayward had been born, tragically, without a smidgen of self-awareness. But after yesterday's performance before Congress, I'm not so sure this is justified or wise for BP: whatever Jedi mind trick Hayward employed to compel Joe Barton's apology seems like a most useful asset. Most of the reaction today wasn't about "evil BP" but about what a blinkered moron Barton was for apologizing. If I were running BP, I wouldn't be so quick to give that up.