You have to wonder if it's the same person at the White House?

Years after the administration displayed the "mission accomplished" banner behind the president as he spoke on an aircraft carrier about how hostilities in Iraq were over, the president spoke yesterday in Arkansas in front of a banner saying "fiscal responsibility."

The first banner turned out to be a huge public relations blunder for the White House when it become clear that hostilities were anything but over. The picture of that banner, which is displayed routinely when there are new reports about additional hostilities or the president's sagging approval ratings on Iraq, has become an embarassment for the administration to the point where it now denies that hanging it was even it's idea.

The failure of the banner tactic to work then has to make you wonder what the White House was thinking when it hung another one yesterday.