“I haven’t been to the U.S. Senate, so. . . I’m learning about how it works.” - Martha Coakley on WTKK-FM yesterday.

Massachusetts, haven’t we made enough “history?”

In 2006 we cast an “historic” vote for Deval Patrick. What did we get? The highest unemployment in 20 years, $1.5 billion a year in new taxes and taxpayer-subsidized green jobs outsourced to China.

In 2008 we cast an “historic” vote for Barack Obama. What did we get? A trillion-dollar “stimulus” that left us with 2.5 million fewer jobs; a health-care fiasco that will cost $2 trillion more and a would-be Undie-bomber consulting with his attorney in Detroit.

Now it’s 2010, and Martha “as the only woman in...