My goodness. The combined effect of Josh Green's piece in The Atlantic and today's take in the New York Times makes the vaunted Clinton machine look like a toxic brew of arrogance, infighting and gross mismanagement. Patrick Healy and Katharine Seelye write:

She [Clinton] and her team showered so much money, attention and other resources on Iowa, New Hampshire and some of the 22-state nominating contests on Feb. 5 that they have been caught flat-footed - or worse - in the critical contests that followed, her political advisers said.

She also made a strategic decision to skip several small states holding caucuses, states where Mr. Obama scored big victories, accumulating delegates and, possibly, momentum.

Her heavy spending and relatively modest fund-raising in January compounded the problems, leaving the campaign ill-equipped to plan after Feb. 5, advisers and donors say.

"It sure didn't look like they had a game plan after Super Tuesday," Mr. Rendell said in an interview on Wednesday. "What I would have done, knowing the line-up, I would've picked one or two states to make an all-out effort, whether Maine or Washington State or you name it, to really try to stop the Obama momentum."

The Times reports the Clinton campaign is just now opening field offices in Texas and Ohio, which strikes me as borderline negligent.

The current situation in Hillaryland reminded me of something her husband said in Iowa in November of last year. Asked to size up Hillary's competition on the Republican side, Bill Clinton ran through the GOP field before saying this about John McCain: "I respect the fact that when his people abused him worse than I ever saw a campaign staff abuse a candidate - just threw all this money away - he didn't quit, he just kept on running without it. So I like that."

I wonder if Bill feels something similar about the way Hillary's campaign has been run.

UPDATE: More behind the scenes drama from the Clinton campaign in today's Wall Street Journal.