BTW, did anyone catch Brown’s press conference this morning? He seemed to be striking an uber-moderate tone, which says to me he’s going to attempt to keep the his seat in two years (as opposed to the scenario Drudge is pushing of his running for the presidency in 2012, or going the total obstructionist route and losing the seat in a tea-partying blaze of glory).

What will be interesting is how the tea party activists and movement conservatives who dumped out-of-state money into his campaign will respond if he isn’t providing them with the right atmospherics.