Now that Caroline Kennedy is out of the running to be appointed for the senate seat vacated by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, it’s worth asking a few questions. First, is more just eye-rolling: How could the appointment of four vacant senate seats become such a mess. First, there was the Blagojevich scandal to replace President Obama’s seat followed by the mini-scandal over whether to seat Roland Burris. In Delaware, the appointment of Joe Biden’s long time top aide was an obvious attempt to keep the seat warm for his son, Beau. And in New York, it’s become an unholy mess. Only Bill Ritter in Colorado seemed to have come through this thing unscathed with his appointment of Michael Bennet.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=146788