{"id":10648,"date":"2009-12-07T17:32:01","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T17:32:01","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-12-07T17:32:01","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T17:32:01","slug":"skelton-confirm-maldo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/2009\/12\/07\/skelton-confirm-maldo\/","title":{"rendered":"Skelton: Confirm Maldo"},"content":{"rendered":"

While we may not agree on St. Abel being the glorious one full of bipartisanship, Skelton<\/a> and the Calitics editorial board<\/a> do agree on one thing: Confirm Maldonado.<\/p>\n

It would be particularly dumb for Democrats to dump all over a Republican who has fought with them in their foxhole. That would send a lousy message about the rewards of bipartisan cooperation.<\/p>\n

The smart thing would be to confirm Maldonado. He may be too moderate to survive a GOP primary anyway.<\/p>\n

Democrats could contest his vacated Senate seat in a special election. It’s competitive. Win that and they’re within one vote of a two-thirds majority. But Democrats aren’t confident they can capture that Central Coast seat in a low-turnout special election in what could be a Republican year.<\/p>\n

They should do the right thing anyway: Confirm a decent, qualified guy and avoid another self-inflicted wound. (LAT<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not much to disagree with about the electoral stuff; it is an excellent opportunity. Not an easy campaign by any stretch of the imagination, but a winnable campaign.<\/p>\n

As for “decent, qualified guy”, well, I’m sure it’s not hard to find a few million people who would argue with his scheming of the budget process to get his dream come true open primary measure.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Maldo sees this job as a cheerleader for Arnold. Kind of appropriate as he has been his mouthpiece in the Senate for a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

While we may not agree on St. Abel being the glorious one full of bipartisanship, Skelton<\/a> and the Calitics editorial board<\/a> do agree on one thing: Confirm Maldonado.<\/p>\n

It would be particularly dumb for Democrats to dump all over a Republican who has fought with them in their foxhole. That would send a lousy message about the rewards of bipartisan cooperation.<\/p>\n

The smart thing would be to confirm Maldonado. He may be too moderate to survive a GOP primary anyway.<\/p>\n

Democrats could contest his vacated Senate seat in a special election. It’s competitive. Win that and they’re within one vote of a two-thirds majority. But Democrats aren’t confident they can capture that Central Coast seat in a low-turnout special election in what could be a Republican year.<\/p>\n

They should do the right thing anyway: Confirm a decent, qualified guy and avoid another self-inflicted wound. (LAT<\/a>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not much to disagree with about the electoral stuff; it is an excellent opportunity. Not an easy campaign by any stretch of the imagination, but a winnable campaign.<\/p>\n

As for “decent, qualified guy”, well, I’m sure it’s not hard to find a few million people who would argue with his scheming of the budget process to get his dream come true open primary measure.<\/p>\n

Interestingly, Maldo sees this job as a cheerleader for Arnold. Kind of appropriate as he has been his mouthpiece in the Senate for a few years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[583],"class_list":["post-10648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-583"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6Pvhz-2LK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/calitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}