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I’m not really in the mood for writing yet another tedious postmortem on Scott Brown’s victory in the Massachusetts Senate race tonight, so I won’t. But I’ll say this: it sure looks as though Democrats plan to make the worst of it.

On a broader note, though, it underscores how resistant the American public is to change. Aside from tax cuts, George Bush spent eight years in the White House and really wasn’t able to advance the conservative agenda in any major way at all. Now it looks like Obama and congressional Dems aren’t going to have much luck advancing a progressive agenda in any major way either. We complain a lot, but when all’s said and done, apparently the status quo is still pretty popular. That’s good news for Wall Street bankers and health insurers, not so good for the rest of us.

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