Oh, and is "Massachusettsians" a word?  How did that howler get past the copy editors?  Oh, right, there are no copy editors anymore, spell check is all the Globe can afford these days.

• 1802 [1962], John Adams, L.H. Butterfield editor, Diary and Autobiography of John Adams, volume 3, page 336:

  That he was a Virginian and I a  Massachusettsian.

• 1869 January, Mayne Reid, “Trifles”, Onward, G.W. Carleton, page 82: 

  A young  Massachusettsian, by name Nathaniel II. Bishop, a mere lad of seventeen, who, prompted by a love of nature, starts off from his New England home, reaches the La Plata River, and coolly "walks" to Valparaiso, across pampa and cordillera, a distance of more than a thousand miles !

• 1916, Charles Villiers Stanford, A History of Music, The Macmillan Company, page 324:

  Chadwick (54), though a  Massachusettsian by birth, residence, and position is not so by preordination. He has a directness of thought, a humour, and a power of seeing himself as others see him that smack more of London or Paris than of Boston.

• 1997, Maggie Montesinos Sale, The Slumbering Volcano: American Slave Ship Revolts and the Production of Rebellious Masculinity, Duke University Press, ISBN 9780822319924, page 131:

  Much to the chagrin of many a  Massachusettsian, on January 29, 1 842, Secretary of State Daniel Webster dispatched directions to the US ambassador to Great Britain in support of Calhoun's resolutions.

“I love being from Massachusetts,” she admitted."  Operative here being "from", she will now get herself a nice place in one of America's 7 wealthiest counties that surround DC and begin the process of becoming truly rich as she lives the life of the ruling class, not public servant as she will tell voters every cycle. (oh, in all fairness, the reps do the same)

"If the rest of America looked anything like our state."  Fortunately for America, it doesn't.  MA is so far left, it surprises me it has not been made part of Europe yet.  

"“Massachusetts is back in the leadership business,”  I truly hope not.

"it feels like the state has become an ideological center of gravity in Washington again."  Really?  All because Kerry got nominated?    

Obama has plans for this country that could tear it in several pieces, with a rather small piece called New England wondering what it will do next.  This idea that the whole country is behind his ideas is a bit foolish.  We have seen this before when one of the parties puts up a really stupid choice for a candidate, then the opposing party thinks that they won a HUGE victory and has a mandate.  A cycle or two later, disaster strikes and they sit there trying to figure out what happened, congressional races went one way, presidential the other, huh what?

"The people in this room care about investing in education and infrastructure"  - aka raising taxes on the "middle class"

So to invest in education means paying a law professor 380K a year to teach one class - that's a great "investment.

The last time  this happened in Massachusetts under Mike Dukakis  we had a series of Republican governors afterward.


We should be so lucky :(

Contrary to our belief, we are not the center of the universe. The liberal northeast does not speak for America

The whole scene makes me want to barf.

Sounds like a nice pig fest of the MA politburo, the Democrat party. I wonder if Capo Axelrod of the Chicago "family" was telling Markey to make sure they took care of business re: a MA primary fight?  After all,  they cleared the field for a fake Indian, so getting Big Ears Markey should be easy, no?

MA is #1 in education; #50 in gun deaths per 1000; in the middle for obesity; top five in income; and #1 in whiners who don't appreciate where they live.  Move to Mississippi why don't ya?

Ms. Stockman,

Our demonym is "Bay Stater."

http://www.malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleI/Chapter2/Section35

So, HistoryisJustThat, Education doesn't matter to most folks? Wow.