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The incendiary nature of this campaign has Patti operating on about four hours of sleep a day. She rises at 6 a.m., gets her kids (9-year-old daughter Lee and 5-year-old Joseph) ready for school, then conducts her first conference call at 7:30 a.m. She speaks to Hillary several times daily, updating her on everything from budgets to polls. Three days a week, she relieves her husband, Jim (a handsome Harvard Law grad), in time for “bath and story time.” Once the kids are tucked in, she works until 2 a.m. Perhaps Lee put it best in a drawing that sits in her mom’s office: “My mom is a rabbit...she hops off to work every day, she hops back home.”

I think it is more than about time that we outlawed by Federal statute the "...in order to spend more time with my family" rationale. It is absolutely impossible that someone could plan to become a Presidential campaign manager and not realize it might be a job that does not conform to 9-5 M-F, or that it might involve some pressure. Come on. I do like the way the media bolsters her case with the verbiage above. Sheesh.

Some Hillary spokeswoman tried to spin the whole event this morning on NBC Today by claming that Doyle had done a great job. I was thinking, “Suuuure...I often times fire someone when they are doing a great job.”