The Hill and other sites reporting Barney Frank has endorsed Ed Markey for Senate should Kerry vacate his seat as expected: "Ed Markey should be and will be the next senator. Frankly, Ed and I have worked together in Congress and, before … [Read more...]

Bloomberg News is reporting that, unlike the summer of 2011 when President Obama convinced him to stay, Tim Geithner will step down as Treasury Secretary by the end of January, and in any event before any debt-ceiling resolution. I am … [Read more...]

[UPDATE: This "story" is at the top of the Globe's front page today (Thursday, January 3).] Glen Johnson reports that, in a call to "Jim & Margery," Ex-Senator-in 24-Hours Scott Brown said Massachusetts Democrats are "making it … [Read more...]

From the Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest, below the part about the House GOP being the most politically extreme Congressional caucus since at least 1879. It seems Capuano had some strong words for those seeking to anoint Ed Markey. … [Read more...]

After refusing (fortunately) to consider raising the Medicare eligibility age, the news emerging from DC is that President Obama is offering cuts to Social Security in the hopes of reaching a deal with John Boehner before the end of … [Read more...]

So it seems it's State, not Defense, but John Kerry's elevation to the cabinet is likely to come to pass. We already have discussed the issue of which Democrat should run in the resultant special election (quite likely against Scott Brown) … [Read more...]

Scott Brown tells us we know not what we do in casting out such a fine specimen of that endangered species, the Senate moderate.  He also noted he's part of another vanishing breed, the "moderate, pro-choice Republican."  Question: does … [Read more...]

Like many of you, I am very pleased with the election results on Tuesday.  Obviously, President Obama was re-elected with a large Electoral College margin and a popular vote margin of some three million votes.  The President won 11 of the … [Read more...]

to the last time Mitt lost an election, on what was otherwise a bad night for me.   … [Read more...]

I have spent far too much time staring at the 2010 Special Election Results.  Now I have a much more enjoyable page to look at: the 2012 Senate election results.  These are almost, but not quite, done.  They're close enough to shed some … [Read more...]