"Scott Brown Wins Mass. Race, Giving GOP 41-59 Majority in the Senate"

That's the Village Voice's headline today. Suderman points to other Democrats ready to throw in the towel. Andrew Sprung throws up his hands. I know now more than ever before why I could never be a Democrat and feel it vital to defeat the current Republican nihilism. Which leaves me with Obama. This is a critical moment. How he responds will be everything. I think there is a response and that, oddly enough, his chances of re-election in 2012 just rose. He must not return to Clintonism. He must reignite the center around him. More thoughts on how he can forthcoming.

But out of every crisis, opportunity. And the stakes are far too great and this country's crisis far too deep for surrender to the old politics now.