A short note to the nation from the state of Massachusetts. [View all]

[WilliamPitt]

http://www.boston.com/news/politics/2013/01/01/senate-closes-agreement-stave-off-fiscal-cliff-tax-hikes-spending-cuts/qQ31yJ3abKIFtutfb4zs0I/story.html

The story isn't even worth linking too, just more boilerplate about waiting to see if/when the House will call a vote...but it's the Boston Globe, and they do have the local angle to consider...so, yeah, I just read this in my local paper about the Senate vote:

"Both Bay State Senators John F. Kerry, a Democrat, and Scott Brown, a Republican, backed the compromise. For Brown, it was probably his last significant act as senator before he is replaced by Democrat Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday."

Read that second sentence twice.

Happy New Year, America. Sorry about Scott; here's Liz to make up for it.

Sincerely, Massachusetts.

P.S. You're welcome. Again.



Oh, P.P.S., stop freaking out about the Kerry appointment. Ed Markey has an army of old friends not even Martha Coakley has heard of. He's got Kerry and the Kennedy family behind him, and Menino's machine in 617...and Scott Brown lost once, and that was without all this going against him. Just sayin'.