Scott Brown: ‘Thanks, David Gergen; thanks, Rahm Emanuel; I couldn’t have done it without you’

“It’s not the Kennedys’ seat,” Brown responded, “and it’s
not the Democrats’ seat; it’s the people’s seat.” (The backdrop for Brown’s
victory speech Tuesday night trumpeted the words THE PEOPLE’S SEAT.)

Brown also owes Rahm Emanuel, Obama’s chief enforcer, and he
owes him big time. Over Christmas, Emanuel took a much-needed vacation to India
with his family. He should have stayed in Washington with his ear to the
ground. Had he done so, he would have realized that the entitled, politically
tone-deaf Martha Coakley was also taking a vacation — from campaigning — but
that Scott Brown was not. He was putting miles on his pickup truck. When
Coakley told reporters after casting her ballot Tuesday morning in Medford, Mass.,
“We’ve been working every day,” one could imagine Rahm, back in his West Wing
office, exploding in choice profanities.