Sisyphus: Minnick And GOP Trap

Minnick is getting the same bad advice on taking Democrats for granted. There are many Idaho Democrats who desperately seek our next Church or Andrus to lead the party from the wilderness to the wealth of great ideas that, not only solve problems, but are politically popular. Governor Schweitzer provided this leadership in Montana with a melding of fiscal conservatism, gun advocacy and demonstrating that green jobs and health care reform are good programs for Montanans. Now Montana is purple with a bright streak of blue. The disappointment with Minnick is so palpable among the faithful in Idaho because the state’s highest profile Democrat fails to fill the bill of what it is to be western Democrat. And it will be his undoing as I argued to Larry LaRocco over the weekend/ Sisyphus , 43rd State Blues. More here .

• Worst news media in the world /Adam’s Blog
• How much gloomier can a prediction get?/ Clayton Cramer
• Talking tax increases — and forcing an unpleasant discussion /Kevin Richert
• Fight over mine, salmon gives me indigestion /Rocky Barker
• Two-fer: Daily politics brief , and: Wednesday Morning News /Treasured Valley

Question (for HBO’s Left Bank): Are you so disappointed with Congressman Walt Minnick’s performance that you’d abandon him in the next election and help a conservative like Vaugh Ward, for example, reclaim the seat for Republicans?