Ted Stevens Found Guilty on All Counts
Well, good. It couldn’t happen to a more puffed up popinjay.
Ted Stevens, the longest-serving Senate Republican in history and patriarch of Alaska politics, was found guilty of all seven felony charges for making false statements.
The verdict could spell the end of a 40-year Senate career for a man who rose to be one of the most dominant figures in the upper chamber and who helped transform Alaska in its 50 years of statehood. The verdict was reached after the jury deliberated since Wednesday and found the 84-year-old senator guilty of failing to report more than $250,000 in gifts from Bill Allen, the former head of Veco Corp., and other friends.
Stevens loved the perks and power that came with his position and he was more than willing to spread around the money entrusted to him by all of us to make sure that he stayed in that position.
That he stayed in office for so long is a shame to the Republican Party. They should have pushed him hard to resign and made him persona non grata in Congress if he didn’t. Unfortunately, they decided not to do either one and they’ve paid for that with a broken party.
Perhaps this election will sweep some of the deadwood from Congress and we’ll be able to find energetic conservative politicians willing to step in and give the government back to its rightful owners.
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Category: The Republican Minority
The problem with this is that the democrats never get rid of their own. Barney Frank and Chris Dodd will stay there forever.
We unilaterally disarm, and still get blamed.
This is the second Mark Foley wave, and I pray it does not drag the entire party down.
Respectfully,
eric aka the Tygrrrr Express
What's dragging the party down is the continued pandering to all the fundamentalist knuckle draggers like Palin.
McCain chooses anyone, ANYONE, but this creationist, book burning kook and it's a 50/50 race to the wire.
Both parties need to clean out the dead, self dealing, wood and leave the fringes to the fringes.
GoF – Okay, so you don't like Palin so much that you'll lie about her. Good. Do you have anything factual to say?
Lie?
"After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.
Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said."
Lies?
"She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast." That woman, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn't be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire Baker for not giving "full support" to the mayor.
But let's get back to the main point.
McCain chooses any mainstream VP and he's got a shot. The Palin pick, clearly, and by all polling, cost him a chance of winning.
And the lesson is axiomatic. Americans don't like the extremes of either party, and to continue the pandering to that element is a losing proposition.
Yes, lies. The librarian said that she never so much as attempted to ban any books, ever. that she inquired into the process can be attributed to any number of reasons. You claimed that she was "book-banning". She was not. That is a lie.
Your dinosaur allegation is also not true. CNN debunked that story pretty solidly and it's been out there for at least a month.
The fictions you're telling are the main point. Whether you like Palin or not, you're not entitles to spread long-debunked fibs about her.
As to the rest of your point, I'll say that you're doing a good job of floating the Obama talking points. Indeed, polls have her as more acceptable than Barack Obama's VP. She has also done something that no mainstream (which I'll say is your codeword for "moderate") candidate could ever have done – energized the Republican base. The energy she's put back into the campaign is very clear.
As for the polls, well, we remember how accurate they've been recently, don't we?
Yes, she's energized the fundie base and disgusted the core of party. That's a winning formula?
Or have the Fundies become the core? I doubt it.
See you on the 5th.
Watched you link.
LOL
She tried to fire the librarian for defying her book banning ways, and "relented under public pressure".
Yeah, that sure put the lie to her views on free speech….
I think this was a case of you hearing what you want to hear. And, I partially blame CNN because they kind of through that “dog whistle” in there so that Palin-haters would hear it the way you did and the rest of us would hear what was actually said. If you won't go watch it again, I'll tell you what was actually said….
See, he said she “asked some questions” AND “she informed the librarian she was being fired”. He did not say, “she asked some questions, and as a result of the answers she informed the librarian she was being fired.” But the way, he kind of rammed it all together, I can see how you would make that mistake.
Then the tape cuts to the factcheck.org woman who says, “You could draw an inference. Many people have drawn an inference. All we know is we have no evidence one way or the other.”
But we do have a few other facts on hand. Like the fact that the questions regarding the book banning policy did not take place in the same “meeting” as the request for the librarian's resignation. Also, this request for resignation came the same week as Palin's requests for the resignations of ALL the other department heads did; and the librarian never cited the “book-banning” conversation as the reason for her being asked to resign. And lastly, months prior to Palin being elected mayor, the library director was in fact working to revise the current “book-challenging” policy as there had been some “dispute” 2 years earlier regarding a challenged book at on of the libraries. So, it kind of sounds like these kinds of issues might be normal course of business to be discussed between a library director & her new boss, no?
"According to news coverage at the time, the librarian said she would definitely not be all right with it. A few months later, the librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, got a letter from Palin telling her she was going to be fired. The censorship issue was not mentioned as a reason for the firing. The letter just said the new mayor felt Emmons didn't fully support her and had to go."
LOL – Okay, stick to your fantasy stories GOF. Whatever gets you through…