Not Entirely Grand Old Police Blotter: Green Day Edition

In a rare display of bipartisanship, and in honor of Earth Day, the Blotter reports on the budding criminal careers of Republicans and Democrats alike.

The (presumed) Dem is the wife of Democratic Senator Max Baucus. The Reliable Source reports:

Wanda Baucus, 56, is an anthropologist and painter who told court officials she now works on the Senate staff. Before obtaining an arrest warrant, a police officer talked to the alleged victim, Tierney Barron, 44, and three people who saw the incident in the parking lot at Johnson's Flower and Garden Center.

According to an affidavit filed to support the warrant, it all began while an employee was loading mulch into Barron's car and Baucus parked in a way that blocked Barron from leaving. As so often happens, "the two subjects exchanged words," states the affidavit.

While Barron sat in her car, Baucus "struck her in the face," the affidavit says. Barron got out and "the defendant continued to strike her upper body several times." Barron suffered a swollen cheek and scratches, the affidavit says.

Baucus got in her car and drove away -- then called police to report an assault. She returned to the scene with her husband, according to Channel 4, which had a camera there. She gave conflicting statements about the altercation, police said.

I guess she lost her composture.

As an e-mailer points out, and as Baucus's own website demonstrates, Baucus has a pretty high DINO rating. The site also reveals why Mrs. Baucus was so happy to take her husband's last name when they married.

In the same column, we learn of a young but not so bright staffer leaving the Republican Party for the a Green Party:

Last week the Capitol Police busted a young intern working for Rep. Ron Paul (R-Tex.) for toting a baggie of pot and a bong into the Cannon House Office Building, but they'll have to look the other way when stockbroker Irvin Rosenfeld brings his stash onto their territory today.

Had the intern been in Paul's home state of Texas -- and had he lacked Republican connections -- he'd soon be starting his five-year prison sentence. One of the hazards of too much dope smoking is that you start to take seriously the libertarian rhetoric of your boss.