It’s an interesting way to look at Mayor Michelle Wu’s latest property-tax defeat on Beacon Hill, i.e. that she actually may have won because now she can blame others for the 13 percent tax hike that Boston homeowners are likely going to be paying next year, as the Globe’s  Joan Vennochi writes. … I think Joan’s partly right. Wu’s tardy and lackluster lobbying effort sure seems like she was going through the motions on Beacon Hill, as if she knew she couldn’t win nor really lose. Another sign she was playing a blame-game game: senators are now scrambling (or at least trying to come across as scrambling) to come up with alternative tax plans now that they’ve blocked Wu’s proposal. They know they could be on the losing side of the blame game. …

But just to be clear: winning a blame game isn’t the same as doing the right thing. Wu just rubs a lot of people the wrong way on Beacon Hill. Personally, I think it’s her righteous nature that irks more than a few folks.

P.S. – Don’t miss Jon Ellis’s latest MassterList column: “Mayor Wu’s Proposition 2 1/2 follies.” … Her opposition to the statewide tax-cap provision is the clearest sign to me she’s not eyeing a statewide office – at least not now.