Thanks to this Scott Brown-related dispatch [emphasis added]:

Mass. could benefit if senators set aside partisanship

Right, and if ponies could fly they'd land on rainbows.

This goes back to the point I made yesterday about how the political press refuses to tell the truth about what's been happening inside the Beltway for the last 13 months regarding how the GOP has adopted a radical and unprecedented partisan approach to the White House, to the point where basically every single GOP member opposes all key administration initiatives. We've never seen anything like it in modern American history, but the press pretends like it's normal, and that gosh, bipartisanship is still possible.

Does the Globe really think there's a chance Sen. Mitch McConnell and Rep. John Boehner are suddenly going to free their members to vote their conscience on issues and to vote for what's best for their constituents?

The Globe is being almost childishly naive here.