Margot Kidder: Ax Max (Baucus)

“Baucus is the the most anti-charismatic Montanan in the state,” writes Kidder, a Livingston, Mont., resident. “The hideous truth is that this empty suit-person almost singlehandedly took the reform out of health care reform, has introduced and somehow passed more legislation to abet the cornucopia of crime that is our banking system than anyone else in Congress, and has stalled the funding of any, if not all, modern programs that would give financial lifeboats of one kind or another to families in need. He did it by pretending he was a Democrat and by hanging in there long enough to get appointed, almost by default, as chair of the banking committee. And he gets elected in a state with the fourth lowest per capita income in the country by consistently ‘bringing home the pork’/actress Margot Kidder , Counterpunch. More here .

Question: Kidder, who lives in Livingston, Mont., also says: ” The lunacy behind the thinking of many traditional Democrats that any Democrat in Congress is better than no Democrat at all needs to be exposed and treated for the infectious disease that it is.” Some Idaho Demos would say the same of Walt Minnick. What do you think?