The first woman to chair was Katherine Blanco, the Governor of Louisiana who was so totally incompetent during Hurricane Katrina.
It was her, not Bush, that turned Katrina into a cluster. Haley Barbour of Mississippi had the same hurricane, but wasn't a clueless Democrat.
Oh, yea. They reward failure.
The new high bar for achievements prerequisites for governing in America. Competency is so uncool dontchyaknow.