Will a New Senate GOP Leader be Selected this Week?

[courtesy of The California Majority Report]

Given the Senate Republicans’ ignominious recent record of political irrelevance and pointless obstructionism, it wouldn’t seem to matter all that much who replaces Dick Ackerman as their next leader.
 
Whoever gets elected -- Senator Dave Cogdill and Dennis Hollingworth being the current "favorites" -- will have wide circles run around him by the more experienced and politically-astute Senate President-designate Darrell Steinberg. These days, being the leader of the Senate Republicans is a little like being the captain of the Washington Generals (the team of proverbial patsies who consistently played and lost to the Harlem Globetrotters, for you Meadowlark Lemon non-devotees). Or the leading shareholder of Enron stock. Or, in a dated and inaccurate reference but one that will particularly infuriate our right-wing friends, a general in the French Army.
 
But, if you’re like me and you find the Republicans’ proclivity for messy infighting and political self-destruction particularly comical, then you’ll be interested to know that the word in the State Capitol among Republican staffers is that a vote to elect a Leader-designate could occur as early as this week’s Republican Caucus meeting. It’s sort of the Sacramento equivalent of watching those women of ill repute fighting over a date with broken-down rocker Bret Michaels on VH-1’s "Rock of Love." I mean, even if you win, what have you really won?

Image courtesy California State Senate Republican Caucus.