For the past eight years, the right has been better at working the refs. Now the left is learning how to play the game.
Eric AltermanIf newspapers were a baseball team, they would be the Mets - without the hope for those folks at the very pinnacle of the financial food chain - who average nearly $24 million a year in income - 'next year.'
Eric AltermanCertainly there are worse sins than doing everything possible to make your presidency matter.
Eric AltermanSo was it a political mistake for Obama to put so many eggs in the health-care-reform basket? Well, a negative decision from the Supreme Court will certainly make it appear so.
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