'Talk about bad timing! Pawlenty to step down as national co-chair of Romney's stuttering campaign to take job at bank lobbying group...'

That was the headline earlier this afternoon at London's Daily Mail, for this piece, "Pawlenty to step down as national co-chair of Romney's presidential campaign to take job at bank lobbying group."

When I saw the news at the office today I didn't make the connection to the Romney campaign (forgetting Pawlenty was a top operative). But I noticed some folks around Memeorandum spewing the "sinking ship" analogy, and the New York Times reports, "Pawlenty Is Leaving Romney Campaign for Lobbying Post." (Also at Memeorandum.)

Check the links.

A man's gotta make a living, but yeah, the timing's not so great.