Montana’s U.S. Senator Max Baucus may have thought that he was going to be able to cruise to re-election this year, but his once smooth sailing has started to encounter some very choppy waters.

With a Progressive Patriots legislative rating of only 27, it’s no wonder the Senator Baucus re-election campaign has begun to show a distinct limp. You can only knock around Montana Democrats for so long before they’ll take things into their own hands.

It seems that some progressives have begun a lens on Squidoo focused on the problems that Max Baucus is having convincing Montana Democrats to support his re-election bid in spite of the fact that he votes more like a Bush Republican than like a genuine Democrat.

Today’s vote by Max Baucus to support the new spy powers for George W. Bush was the tipping point for many. It seems that progressives are in no mood these days to give Democrats a blank check.

It’s understandable, given all the promises of 2006, that many progressives feel let down, or even lied to. If the Democratic majority in the Senate can’t block unchecked electronic espionage powers for the President, the feeling seems to be that the right wing Democrats in Congress are as much to blame as the Republicans.

Max Baucus, that means you. Watch out. Your name has been named.