Tea Party Supports Democrat over Republican in Idaho?

This is pretty absurd. Sure, as far as Democrats go, Rep. Walt Minnick of Idaho is one of the better Democrats in the House. But he still endorsed Pelosi as speaker and is generally a vote for her when she really needs him. Further, if the GOP were 1 vote shy of kicking Pelosi out of her leadership position, do they still really want to support a Democrat?

I remember hearing in 2006 with all of these "conservative" Democrats that they would be almost as good as having a Republican (Brad Ellsworth, Bart Stupak, Jim Webb, etc). Of course, on the important votes, they are as bad as Pelosi and Reid. You would think most Americans have learned that there really are no longer any conservative Democrats in Congress.