Ya think?

...in electing Brown, a large segment of the electorate declared that there is little appetite for near-universal national health care, the chief domestic policy initiative of Obama, who carried the state by 26 percentage points only 14 months ago.

link: Voter anger caught fire in final days - The Boston Globe

I've said all along I've got no stake in the health care squabble but, just for the record, if there's any message in the conservative trucker's election it's that people don't think Obama's health care plan goes far enough, not that they think it goes too far. Whether the national plan now on the table in Washington passes or fails should not make much difference to a Massachusetts voter, who already has pretty much the same plan and, in the end, still will.

Meanwhile, I'm just pointing out here, no sooner had we elected our favorite-son nutjob to the Senate the snow stopped falling, the sun came out, the temp zoomed to 34º and the snow on the ground began melting, and I'm looking forward to ducks in the puddle. And tulips.

I know, of course, I will be cruelly disappointed. And by the way, that wet ice on the sidewalks is very, very, very slippery, so watch your ass.