Pundits, being pundits, are growing bored with the prevailing Scott Brown storyline.

Old and busted: Cinderella Republican wins against all odds!

New hotness: proceed with caution, conservatives.

First, Jeff Jacoby:

Brown and the voters of Massachusetts have killed ObamaCare. In so doing they have provided the president a priceless second chance to adjust his political course, move toward the center, and deliver at least some of the bipartisan cooperation that was at the heart of his once-enormous appeal. If Obama seizes the opportunity that Massachusetts and its senator-elect have given him, the brightest days of his presidency may be still to come.

Well, it’s true: Brown got elected in large part because the Obama-led Democrats pushed way too hard on a too-liberal agenda. If they turn back on it, maybe they mollify the voters enough to avoid catastrophe in November.

Found that at The Linkiest.

Second, from Ed Morrissey:

Brown’s victory means an end to Harry Reid’s supermajority, which makes the radical agenda he and Obama have pursued unlikely to succeed. This is a much-needed brake on runaway government expansion, but it isn’t Nirvana by any stretch. Brown will be likely to vote for a scaled-down version of health-care reform (as would be Snowe, Collins, and perhaps a couple of other Republicans) that still would be the wrong direction, just not as bad as what’s on the table now.

I seem to remember somebody else writing about this already. Brown isn’t a hard-core conservative, and here’s hoping all the Tea Partiers who supported him don’t think that he is and get disillusioned six months from now.

That one’s via Memeorandum.