The Evergreen State is turning more blue, in a couple of ways. There's this bad case of the fiscal blues inflicted by the Bush administration's proposed budget. As a result, Washington could become even more of a "blue state" than it showed in the 2004 presidential election.

The president wants to change a decades-old revenue agreement between the federal government and the Bonneville Power Administration and raise electricity rates in the region to pay down the massive federal debt. That's such a bad idea, regional politicians of both parties are outraged.