Rep. Walt Minnick told the Moscow Daily-News regarding going back to Congress for another term. It's no biggie:

"I would like to go back. If I don't, that's not the end of the world."

(Hat Tip: The Political Game.)

I wonder if Minnick told that to Barney Frank and friends when he showed up for a big political fundraiser in Washingtona few months back. Minnick has...read more

The Idaho Conservative Blogger got an audience or at least an e-mail audience with my Congressman Mike Simpson and they asked about a somewhat caustic remark I wrote last month:

Well, Simpson is so confident, he's done the political equivalent of walking out on the battlefield in t-shirt and gym shorts. When he's back in his district, he doesn't hold town hall meetings where his constituents can ask him questions. He doesn't have representatives show up at Central Committee meetings, which is a good thing as his staff makes the downtown DMV look like the Missionaries of Charity. I've gotten more polite service at a Subway near BSU. That says something."

"Simpson has taken his position for granted. Even Simpson's fundraising numbers are weak. They're the numbers of a man whose political career has become a never-ending victory lap. Now, he faces a challenge. Not two unknown challengers throwing in their hats at the last minute before the filing deadline, but one challenger who is raising money and building an organization in a year when incumbency will offer less advantage than any year since 1994."

Simpson...read more

The media made a big deal out of Congressman Sali's issues with the FEC, which later turned out not to be his fault.

Well Congressman Simpson seems to have run into a little bit of a problem as he received a Disavowal notice from the FEC for not filing a statement of candidacy, which is legally required. Of course, everyone makes mistakes, so having this issue happen in 2009 wouldn't be...read more

What would happen if the immortal detectives, Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown met with a brutal murder to solve?

This is the fascinating question posed by Rev. Stephen Kendrick's 2001 Book, Night Watch. The plot of the story is that Sherlock's Holmes' brother, Mycroft, the British's government's most indispensible man as Sherlock Holmes described him, calls his younger brother...read more

Cheers to Governor Butch Otter who has set up a website for citizens to provide feedback for how Government can tighten its belt during these hard economic times. Said Otter, ""We need your help. Government does not have a monopoly on good ideas." Indeed, they don't, Governor, however an anti-trust lawsuit may be forthcoming against government on the other type.

Boos to...read more

Boos to Rep. Walt Minnick (D-Planned Parenthood) for his vote for funding abortion through Obamacare. His vote for Planned Parenthood and NARAL v. his constituents is telling. The people of the first district don't want their tax dollars to subsidize abortion. On the other token, Minnick's own folks are not happy about his vote against the underlying bill, so I don't think he's long...read more

Cheers to Dave Frazier of the Boise Guardian. On his blog, the Idaho Statesman's Kevin Richert referenced that Boise City Council Candidate Dave Litster is referring to Mayor Bieter's downtown trolley as the Folly Trolley. Of course, the term is not of Litster's making, it was originally coined by Frazier on the Boise Guardian as he has reported on politicians' seeming love affair...read more