Just to double the pleasureJust to double the pleasure, and the schadenfreude fun, a mere week ago, Alterman was invoking "the paranoid style in American politics" to explain right-wing reaction to JournoList -- you remember that famously secret Fight Club brotherhood of liberal journalists which committed harakiri rather than risk another traitorous exposure to the sunlight., right?

The problem for folks like Alterman is that they inevitably end up believing their own spin. Even so, it takes serious skilz to convince yourself that Obama has been saving his transformational initiatives for his next term -- especially when the Prez is looks more and more like he doesn't even want a second term.

I believe you need to credit Michael Yon for the photograph used here.