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Like the good little Augustus he is, Obama wants to stuff the guvmint with loyalists, lackeys, and dependable hacks. But La Feinstein is not pleased. "My position has consistently been that I believe the agency is best served by having an intelligence professional in charge at this time." (As opposed, one notes, to an intelligent professional. But we digress.)

I have no position on Panetta, but am pleased as can be that the Donk proves once again to be so splendidly inept at palace politics. Harry Reid barred Burris from the august chambers of the imperial city, meanwhile caving to Gopster demands that the Minnesota Frankenstein not be seated until . . . some other time. Boyking Black Reagan declares he will not pass his economic kidney stone without eighty senators on board. If not the mandate of heaven, at least a "bipartisan manner."

Lady Diane will cave, of course. Caesar will sit her down for a little chat, with Hillary behind him in houdou high priestess regalia holding the shrunken head of Vince Foster. As goes La Feinstein, so goes Harry Reid, who has all the tenacity of a plastic bag in a hurricane. They're just getting in their warbles while they still can.