We started today off on Shift with the good news that Jim McDermott, the appropriately identified “liberal psychologist from Seattle” in his losing 1980 gubernatorial campaign, was finally retiring from the Congressional seat he’s held since 1989. Shift is setting the over/under at 9 for how current/retired far-left Democrat officials will jump into the 7th District race – among the most liberal in the country. It will certainly remain in Democrat (or Socialist, if Kshama Sawant jumps in) hands, but should provide good entertainment through the August primary.
We also launched a series today on key issues before the legislature, which opens a 60-day session next Monday, starting with a look at the Democrat approach to meeting the McCleary decision (you guessed it, raise taxes!). We also reported on a couple environmental issues – the failing Puget Sound Partnership wanting more taxpayer money to waste, and the problem with government trying to rewrite the laws of supply and demand when it comes to biofuels. Nothing like spending OPM (Other People’s Money) to make the liberals pay little attention to actual results.