Former San Francisco lawyer and current Montana Democratic Party Chairman, Dennis McDonald, was able to get Lee Newspaper reporter Charles Johnson to devote over 800 words to a story about something that’s not gonna happen.

Nope, I am not talking about the Democrats coming up with a solution to help with our country’s energy crisis.

The latest escapade from Chairman McDonald is that he is demanding the resignation of Montana’s U.S. Attorney, Bill Mercer.

This request is nothing new. Over a year ago, Montana’s two senators, Max Baucus and Jon Tester, (both Democrats) called on Mercer to resign. He didn’t.

Mercer is a Republican Presidential appointee, so you can see the political angle in all this. It’s too bad that reporters don’t see it that way. It could have saved readers from wasting time reading over 800 words about a lot of nothing.

Mercer serves at the pleasure of the President. President Bush’s term ends January 20, 2009. If Mercer leaves before then, it won’t be because the Chairman of the Montana Democratic Party or Montana’s two Democratic U.S. Senators demanded it.