McClintock/Denham 2010? Bring it on!

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Hands down, the two biggest losers of the Senate Republican Senate budget blockade were Senators Tom McClintock and Jeff Denham.
 
While it's true that both have reached folk hero status with the increasingly insignificant ultra-right wing of the Republican party, their chances of statewide general election success deteriorated significantly during the past two months.
 
McClintock, a repeated failure in pursuit of higher office, once again positioned himself as Mr. No. McClintock never has voted for a state budget in the Assembly nor in the Senate. This year, his stand was less than principled; it was purely political. As he notes on The Flash Report, this was all about building his political mailing list. He was a prolific blog poster during the crisis -- not on his official government site, but on his political site. And his caustic, personal attacks on the Governor have made him enemy number one in the Schwarzenegger camp. And that's not something that will be helpful in 2010.