Obama. My. Old. Friend.

As Dubya wanders the White House, impotently ordering banks to spend their fucking allowance already,

White House, Treasury press banks to use aid to lend more

WASHINGTON (AFP) — The White House and Treasury pressed banks Tuesday to use the US government's capital injections to boost lending instead of simply hoarding the cash.

"Banks exist to lend money -- that's how they make money," White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said as the Treasury prepared to deliver the first round of infusions of a 250-billion-dollar recapitalization plan.

"So we think that one of the things that we have to do is help recapitalize them so that they have a capital base, so that they are willing to lend money."

Perino said the government cannot force the banks to lend money but pointed out that "the banks are regulated by the Treasury Department ... they have every incentive to move forward and start using this money."

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And the fractious, undisciplined mavericks of Team McSame make more headlines every day by eating themselves alive:

Top McCain Aides: 'Palin Simply Knew Nothing About National And International Issues'

Nicholas Graham October 28, 2008

The McCain campaign continues to snipe at each other over the handling, and subsequent effect, of Sarah Palin on the campaign trail. According Nicole Wallace, a senior McCain aide who is one of Palin's handlers and helped to orchestrate her initial rollout, there is an 'organized campaign to lay blame' for things at her feet. Robert Draper, however, offers a defense of Wallace, saying she's kept quiet about things that a couple of McCain higher-ups have leaked to him, and that Wallace was in a very unenviable position:

I'm sympathetic to Eskew and Wallace, and not just because they're decent people. They've held their tongue from leaking what a couple of McCain higher-ups have told me--namely, that Palin simply knew nothing about national and international issues. Which meant, as one such adviser said to me: "Letting Sarah be Sarah may not be such a good thing." It's a grim binary choice, but apparently it came down to whether to make Palin look like a scripted robot or an unscripted ignoramus.
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I cannot help but note that, as always, Bill Shakespeare long ago got there first with the perfect words:

Those he commands move only in command,
Nothing in love: now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.

--MacBeth, Act V, scene II