Happy New Year!

It’s well into January, but Happy New Year! You can see how well I’m doing with my resolution to write every week, but Tuesday’s election prompted me to stop procrastinating. Back in November, I wrote about the race for the Senate seat in Massachusetts, and as you know by now, Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney general, lost to a relatively unknown state senator, Scott Brown. At the time, I wrote about Coakley’s uncompromising stand on the healthcare bill and questioned whether it was a wise move on her part. As it turns out she flip-flopped on her position and proceeded to make a series of poor judgments about the way she ran her campaign. Pundits are saying voters are angry and don’t want healthcare reform. I’m not sure I agree with their analysis, since we already have healthcare reform in Massachusetts. But, unfortunately, the outcome is that Coakley didn’t demonstrate the kind of leadership that's needed in campaigning. Now we have a Republican male leader. He has posed naked (I’m not against that but can you imagine a woman winning if she did that?) and boasts about driving a truck. What he’s shown so far is that he knows how to rev the crowd.