Within Team Clinton, the Penn Wars continue unabated. The campaign dysfunction continues.

For everyone who remembers the 1990s, there was never a dearth of drama coming from the Clinton White House. Never. Some of it trumped up the right-wing noise machine, some of it legit. Seems that old habits die hard in the Clinton camp. Today, even in the wake of the wins on Tuesday night, the internal battles of the Clinton campaign are on the front page of the Washington Post. Last night, John posted it and the article is worth a deeper look and raises important questions. If this is what we can expect from the Clinton campaign, is this how a Clinton administration will function, too?

For any political junkie, the Post piece is a must read. It's full of back-biting and blaming each other. The main culprit is Mark Penn. Oh, and for those who may be thinking that the Post is dredging up old news (from last week) to make the Clinton campaign look bad, a lot of this is very recent (from this week) -- and it comes from within:

Penn declined to respond when reached yesterday, but he has been firing back in conversations with compatriots in recent days, arguing that he never had control of the campaign's finances or organization, instead blaming Ickes, Solis Doyle and her deputy, Mike Henry, who resigned. "Mark Penn's point is: 'I didn't do any of the spending,' " said a campaign colleague who has heard the argument. "Penn's whole point is: 'To say I had control of the money is crazy. Patti was in charge.'"

And so strangely enough, a moment of victory for the Clinton camp somehow feels less than victorious. "Mark blames Patti and Patti blames Mark in a circular firing squad," said an adviser who has worked for both Clintons and watched Penn, Solis Doyle, Ickes, Wolfson, Grunwald and others go at it for months. "What they don't realize is that everyone else blames them -- all of them."

Seriously, when it comes to the Clintons and their top advisers, the drama never ends. And, while the Post article is fascinating (as are this one and this one, too), it's actually disturbing how many of her staffers run to the media to air the campaign's dirty laundry. That's never a good sign in this town. They seem to know the campaign is a mess and their actions are counter-productive, but can't help themselves. Hillary knows it's a mess, too, but she lets it go on and on. She keeps telling us she's a leader, but if this is how she leads, we're in trouble. It's no way to run a campaign, but it's definitely no way to run a country.

One other line stuck out:

"The greatest challenge going into the campaign," a senior campaign aide said with a sigh, "was the management of Bill Clinton."

That was one of the biggest challenges of the Bill Clinton administration. And, it doesn't look like much has changed. Hillary is the last person to be talking about 3AM phone calls...