In the loop

I realize there is a glut of jokes about how irrelevant Pres. Bush seems these days, but I'll just share these two headlines:

• Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:56pm EST
  White House says unaware of any Citigroup rescue talks
  ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE (Reuters) - White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said on Sunday she knew of no talks going on between banking giant Citigroup and the federal government for financial aid.
  
  
• Mon Nov 24, 2008 8:06am EST
  U.S. rescues Citi with $20 billion capital
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. government has bailed out Citigroup Inc, agreeing to shoulder most of the potential losses on $306 billion of high risk assets and inject $20 billion of new capital, in its biggest rescue of a bank yet.