Finally, some explanation for why President Obama likened the election of Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., – who campaigned on an anti-Obamacare platform – to his own presidential victory. Answer: maybe he didn’t know what else to say?

Ron Suskind portrays Obama, in his book Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President, as frustrated upon returning from a campaign stop on behalf of Brown’s opponent, Martha Coakley, who appeared doomed. The day before the special election, Obama called a senior staff meeting. “What is my narrative?” Suskind says Obama asked. “I don’t have a narrative.”