Coakley takes my town, 52% to 47%

She's doing remarkably well in Boston, is comfortably ahead in Worcester, and doing pretty well in most of western Massachusetts.

Coakley took Wellesley, by 12 votes.

However, it won't be enough. Brown is steamrollering through places like Westwood, Braintree, Fitchburg...

Andover? Haverhill!?

He's going to win, albeit not spectacularly.

The right-wing media are going to have a field day with this. Ironically, though, were Brown running for Congress in, say, upstate New York, they'd be calling him a RINO and tearing into him like sharks into a bloody carcass.

Fuck Braintree. Brains do not grow on trees, clearly.

Die Strasse frei den braunen Batallionen

If it has to be endured, I might as well make fun of it.

In retrospect

Obama failed to make the sale on health insurance reform largely, I think, because instead of devising a plan of his own, he sat there waiting for Congress to come up with one. The result ended up reassuring nobody but the special interests that crafted it.

In Massachusetts, we've had this kind of insurance reform for a couple of years now. It doesn't work; costs have gone up faster than ever.

Obama's foreign policy, especially his escalation of the Afghan war, has disappointed a lot of people, myself included.

His economic policy, however, has been the most disappointing of all: billions for Wall Street, but not one cent for job creation. It boggles the mind.

The Democrats still have control of both houses of Congress, even if only 58 Senators (Lieberman doesn't count). They'd better get their act together between now and November, if they know what's good for them.

Of course, they probably can't.