Social Knives

"Everyman Obama courts socialites":

The new players in social D.C. will be the "people from Chicago, and the people close to the president," according to Mr. Conconi. "You are going to see a lot of people falling in love with Rahm Emanuel, if that's possible to do."

Awk.

The Obama courtship of Washington's socialites does not surprise Georgetown novelist Jane Stanton Hitchcock, who has observed the area's social milieu for more than ten years.

"Washington used to be a sleepy town. Increasingly the social life and political life has melded together and the parties have become more lavish with all the good and ill that comes along with that," she said. "There's a lot of competition, especially among the women, and the social knives come out. But we are tribal people, and it's always going to be this way with all the backbiting."

Knives. Sounds like Rahmbo's milieu.