According to football fan James Carville, we’ll know whether the Obama administration is a playoff caliber franchise within the next few months. “It’s the third quarter, [Obama is] down by a point, and he’s got his best player on the bench – what really is going to be important is the fall,” Carville is quoted as saying in the Politico this morning. In the past few days, there have been dozens of stories about Obama’s falling poll numbers, the looming breakup of the progressive coalition, and the gathering tea party revolt.

When team Obama huddled up this morning, and the key players looked up at the scoreboard,  they probably got butterflies in their stomachs, as they realized that it’s now do or die time.| MORE ›