Republican Governor Jon Huntsman of Utah is frustrated with his party and its "gratuitous partisanship"…

Huntsman's primary beef with the Republican minority is that, in his view, they haven't come up with new ideas and solutions, but are representing themselves as — to borrow a cliche — the party of "no."

"Right now, we are devoid of some of those big ideas that will allow us to become a governing party once again," Huntsman told the Times. "Until we get to that point, we are going to be sort of out there gasping for air, and that's where we are right now."

RNC Chairman Michael Steele fired back by "threatened to withhold party funds from three GOP senators who voted for the stimulus package."

Who's being gratuitously partisan now, huh?

In these exclusive outtakes from The Colbert Report, Stephen graciously offers Jason Chaffetz — the freshman Congressperson from Utah — a facial with his own skin care product…

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And then the two get down with the soulful sounds of "Charlene (I'm Right Behind You)" on Rock Band

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It's nice to know that we're being governed by vagrants and drifters.

I mean, I always suspected it, but it's nice to get confirmation on it…

If you see Rep. Jason Chaffetz wandering around the halls of Capitol Hill or loitering by the congressional candy machine, please do not give him any appointments to congressional committees. And definitely don't give him any pork. No matter how hungry for graft he looks. It will only serve to encourage him.

I know you think you're doing the right thing, but you're not. Believe me. You're not.

Utah's Republican Congressman Jason Chaffetz sits down with Stephen to discuss Marie Osmond, illegal immigration and guns.

After his leg wrestling loss, will Nancy Pelosi change her mind about allowing congressman to come on Stephen's show?

Last week, Idaho shocked the nation by electing its first Democrat to Congress since 1994, Walter Minnick.  Minnick defeated incumbent Bill Sali on a platform of job creation, sensible foreign policy, and environmental stewardship.

But now Minnick wants to add one more plank to that platform: copying everything that Utah Congressman Jim Matheson does…

Congressman-elect Walt Minnick says western and northern Idaho voters who chose him over one-term incumbent Republican Bill Sali need only look one state southward to see how a Democratic lawmaker can be effective in a largely GOP state.

U.S. Rep. Jim Matheson, D-Utah, has won five times by focusing on constituent services — and by appearing to break ranks with leaders such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on votes including October’s $700 billion bailout.

Like Matheson, Minnick is a Harvard University graduate. And like Matheson, Minnick has vowed to reach across the aisle to his Republican counterparts.

He and Matheson ran similar campaigns, each reluctant to emphasize Democratic ties. And Matheson invited Minnick to join the “Blue Dog Coalition,” about 50 fiscally conservative House Democrats, according to the group’s Web site.

Minnick has promised that his first act once sworn into office will be covering his copy of the Congressional Record with Matheson's name, and occasionally with the name "Walter Matheson."

Anyway, it's appropriate that these two will be working closely together, since Idaho and Utah are more alike than ever.  For instance, Idaho residents donated $400,000 to the Mormon Church's efforts to outlaw same-sex marriage in California.  And scientists working jointly at the University of Idaho and Utah State University recently cloned a mule.

Their follow-up project, apparently, was cloning a Congressman.

Fox News has called Iowa for Obama and Louisiana, Georgia, Texas and Utah for McCain.