Got Until Summertime

When people make these seasonal predictions without qualifiers I'm never sure if they mean the beginning, the middle, or the end. In this case I thought roughly the middle was appropriate.

He's got until summertime to show some results, and if he doesn't, he's got to start pulling out, too," one of the President's closest associates said yesterday. "The fact of the matter is, most of the public isn't with him now, and the rest aren't going to stay with him unless this last-chance surge works.