Bet it’s not too much fun around the dinner table at the Governor’s Mansion in Helena these days. The Schweitzergate Scandal just won’t go away. Since breaking in the Dextra Blogosphere on September 5, the story of the gov’s, shall we say, intemperate comments about fixing the 2006 election for his good buddy Jon Tester has appeared in newspapers, radio, and television around the country. Now it’s evolving into a national cable story as Fox News plans a live interview of Secretary of State Brad Johnson on Sunday morning. Eric Shawn will be discussing the issue of voter fraud as we head into this year’s election – a subject that most Americans don’t find particularly humorous. We heard that BS was interviewed by Fox earlier this week, so the whole country will probably get to hear him bragging, boasting, and bloviating and then see him trying to brush it all off as jus’ shuckin’ and jokin’ by an innocent, down home, good ol’ boy who’s bein’ unfairly attacked by his political opponents.

I don’t know how this whole mess will eventually be resolved. The US Attorney’s Office has opened a file on the case, and we’ll just have to wait and see if the investigation results in indictments, a perp walk, a trial, and possibly jail time. We are already seeing the rising star start to fall out of the sky. It was only three weeks ago that the buzz was all about Schweitzer as Obama’s Energy Czar – now even BS himself is minimizing those expectations by claiming he really wouldn’t want to live in DC anyway – just in case anybody’s asking. Which they aren’t.

Reminds me of a Kentucky Derby thing. The winner of the 2003 Run for the Roses – a gelding named Funny Cide – out of Distorted Humor. Poetic justice – or just a hoot?