Deval at Doyle's

There was a great event tonight for the Deval Patrick Boston delegates and organizers. We met up at Doyle's, the famously political Irish bar/restaurant, replete with Kennedy portraits and memorabilia, an entire room devoted to Tom Menino, and other posters and propaganda from politicians present and past. We chatted about the amusing scene of the Russians confusedly voting their slate in Ward 21 (I remember the busloads of non-English speaking Russians at the DNC delegate caucus in 2004); and the troubling graduation rates in Boston's community colleges, and yes, talked about presidential hopefuls for 2008, though I tried to steer the conversation to more interesting races of now, like Ciro Rodriguez, the Texas Democrat endorsed by Democracy for America running for the House against a "Democrat" endorsed by the vile Club for Growth and who sat on the GOP side of the aisle at the State of the Union--the early voting just started.

Another story on the cusp of exploding is the continuing collapse of Rick Santorum, who seems to be engaging in Duke Cunningham-style corruption.

The event was great; it was pretty nice to just sit and eat with other activists and political wonks and Deval, who simply stayed and ate dinner without ceremony. Though he certainly was wearing the best suit.