Whitehouse working for McCain?

They've really got it down.

Economic crisis. There's McCain with his quote of the day: I'd fire the head of the SEC. Cut to Dana Perino, Whitehouse Press Secretary and a question so well timed one wonders if it was planted or whether the press really are that naive. Ms. Perino confirms that Pres. Bush has a fine relationship with the head of the SEC.

And so with a single, irrelevant statement, Mr McCain is able to claim that he's effective, a man in charge, on the spot with respect to the economy and he's distanced himself from the man he needs to show he's different from: GW Bush.