Ted Stevens: Hurry up with the trial so I can get re-elected pork king again
Some people just don’t know when to quit.
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens pleaded not guilty Thursday to charges he lied about accepting more than a quarter of a million dollars worth of gifts. He asked for a trial before he stands for re-election in November…
…Stevens’ legal team asked the judge to move the trial to Alaska, where the senator has been a political patron since before statehood. Attorney Sullivan also asked that the trial date be speeded up to give Stevens his day in court before the Nov. 4 election.
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Time for Sen. Stevens to retire to jail where he belongs.
SAY WHAT? That’s enough information to choke the Library of Congress.
I’m afraid the Hulk can’t save him.
Man, that’d be great. After we grant his request to relocate his trial to Alaska, perhaps Senator Stevens would like to hand-pick his jury too.
And the judge said “OK, opening statemnts on Monday November 3, court’s adjourned.”
Well maybe a little earlier, 40 years of graft is a lot to go through. If they start tomorrow, the trial will still be going on election day.
Some pompous, arrogant, self-centered, power-hungry, pork-spending jerks just don’t know when to quit, do they?
Senator Stevens, you’re only digging yourself deeper into the pit of ridicule. Your bridge to nowhere was bad enough. But the corruption issue should have ruined your career. Just ask Tom DeLay.
Yes… why doesn’t he retire so Sarah Palin can appoint a Republican to finish out the term… and run as the incumbent?
(Hey, it’s how the Democrats do things in Oregon)
The problem with RINOs is that not only do they think of themselves as democrats but they expected to be treated the same. Big mistake. The best thing that Stevens, Craig, and dare I say McCain? could do is leave the party. They’re going anyway — might as well get it over with.
He is just waiting for Kwame “Muh Detroit” Kilpatrick to step down.
At which Republicans far outnumber Democrats. Some Democrats have been indicted, but Republicans outnumber Democrats 5 to 1 in Congressional indictments.
Hopefully this trial will be like his infamous “bridge to nowhere” and move slowly and never finish. Let’s just say this is a self-imposed term limit. It’s time for new blood in AK, and Congress overall. Vote against the 9-14% approved incumbents. They clearly aren’t getting it done. Impose voter term limits on the rest of the entitled Congress.
(and lgm, how about Culture of Obstructionism? Just as corrupt denying the will of the American people…Glass houses, my friend)
Prosecutors said they had nearly 500 gigabytes of evidence…
Are you kidding?
My kids iPods hold more mp3′s than that. Just FYI, 500 gigs is about $100 at Fry’s Electronics….
My bad… didnt mean to do a product placement ad
lgm,
5:1? Proof please. You, being an alleged math teacher and all, should have no problem with finding math to prove your theorem. Oh, and we count lying to a grand jury as a crime.
This person will be re-elected. It is the sign of our times.
Is it too late for him to switch parties?
Mr. Sensitive:
I’m sorry that your nerves are so raw from the fact that occasional uses of profanity on Michelle’s website cannot disguise your lame and lazy excuse for moral equivalency. You just proved my point in a previous post.
Redirection will always catch ya…
Soap, I don’t think statistical analysis is Mr. Sensitive’s strong suit. Either are ratios.
I would like Mathman to explain why this very same Congress demeans a man like Coburn who delivered healthy babies gratis. How much did his swampmaster San Fran Nan accomplish in her “golden era” of leadership?
This is why corruption exists and term limits need to be part of the frame work to root out all the bad apples. When someone, like Mathman, pretends that corruption exists on one side, then the people’s will will never get done.
I was in a bank line when I heard CNBC refer to “disgraced” Senator Stevens “pleading not guilty.” If indeed he’s not guilty, he may be exonorated, but he’s not disgraced until found guilty. “Embattled” would have worked. Unless CNBC had an agenda or something…
I agree, term limits are the best thing. Corruption happens on both sides of the aisle but you’d never know it would you? On the other hand I need to have some work done on my house, maybe I’ll run for Congress? If I so then maybe someone would remodel my house for free!
Stevens may want to get the trial over with before election day, but what if he loses?
If only we could harness such chutzpah for good and not evil.
Term limits = lgm points for debating. Talk about it all you want but neither is worth much.
emjem,
Neither is debating. For once I offerd him a chance to debate an issue without calling him and idiot. Prove your post kinda challenge. I knew lgm was not up to it. He is just piling up his DKos points for useing worthless dimocrap talking points. He has to be the winner by now (for being such a loser).
Gonna need some sources there..
I would point out (with the numbers), as i’ve shown you before, about the number of just sex scandals..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_scandals_of_the_United_States#Sex_scandals
Notice the following, LGM, and take it to heart:
The list comprised of “top sex scandals”…yeah, its 9 out of 10 democrats.
If you also scroll down the remainder of the list, you’ll notice that your claim is complete crap, as democrat scandals outnumber republica. I would be willing to stretch a bit and say outside of just sex scandals, that the trend is the same.
See what happens when you stick to the facts? You dont look like a complete moron
Where’s your Obamessiah now?
Simply put, Ted Stevens is a political animal. He has no sense of shame over his corruption, only a sense of annoyance at being caught! Retire this pig, preferably in the pen.
was in a hurry
The list comprised of “top sex scandals”…yeah, 9 out of 10 were democrats.
and
as democrat scandals outnumber republicans.
Minor correction..
“Stevens’ legal team asked the judge to move the trial to Alaska, where the senator has
been a political patron since before statehoodalready got the judges in his back pocket.”That’s more like it.
lgm “Republicans outnumber Democrats 5 to 1 in Congressional indictments.” Cite please.. or are you just making it up as you go, again.
The Republicans lost control of Congress thanks to hogs like Stevens. It was bad enough that everybody knew what Stevens was up to for years and everybody looked the other way. Duke Cuningham was another classic example. When the Republicans made the lethargic Denny Hastert the speaker, I knew that the liberal Dems would get back control soon enough. The Republicans had the change to have Steve Largent, who would have made a great presidential candidate after a few terms of speaker but they would not allow him to have any position of leadership because he was not part of the gravy machine. THe Republicans also were so into the free tickets, free trips lifestyle that people like JC Watts got sick of it and left Congress. We got stuck with guys like Behner and Blunt who see themselves as part of the permanent Washington, D.C. K Street permanent government.
Anyone surprised? Correct me if I am wrong, but isn’t this the “bridge to nowhere” guy? All of the pols have their snout in the trough these days. A red flag to anyone paying attention. Just a sign of the end of our days as the reigning super power. I refer again to the Scottish professor (quoted by others here) who said “democracy can not stand as a permanent form of gov’t…”. Fiscal irresponsiblity abounds in our gov’t today. They spend $ like it is monopoly $. Our financial system is bound to collapse without radical changes. Unfortunately, that means everything my wife and I worked for will go down the drain with these greedy pigs when the currency and financial system collapses. The hardest hit by the fiasco our pols created will be those of us who worked and SAVED to make a better life for ourselves and our children (ie the thrifty). ARRGGHHHHH!!!
lgm, remember that R are repoted, publized and charged (scooter libby for example and the whole fitzgarld false investagation).
D are covered up. (remember the la times and john edwards censor: do not report)
Typical career politician.
Was there a statement from the RNC?
The answer to career corrupt-o-crats? Term Limits.
I would be interested in seeing the data on this, lgm. Would you be kind enough to oblige, please?
I’ll try to check back later to see what you have.
Names? Time frame? Political party in power? Severity of alleged crime? Did you factor in the propensity of the Democrats to reward rather than punish the transgressors in their party?
A good math teacher puts in all the unknowns 9and knowns) in his equation…
Actually, it’s probably just image scans of documents. Pretty standard when you need to capture any extra things like handwritten notes.
So he has even more in common with Ted Kennedy than just his first name?
Video streaming, music files, graphics and high resolution photos do eat up alot of bytes. I don’t think his gifts came in the form of music files. But Word Documents…not at all. A standard Word Document, even legal, is about 50 KBs. 50 Kbs into ONE gigabyte? Now 500 X that….
Library of Congress.
On July 31st, 2008 at 3:03 pm, lgm said:
Which only proves Democrats are better deceivers than Republicans, Democrats don’t get caught as easily because lying is their art, and means little to anyone except for the equivocators among us.
Don’t talk about San Fran Nan that way. LOLROF
I have reached the point where I don’t care whether or not they are Democrat or Republican. I have had enough of the cronyism, bribery and corruption. (who gives a diddly-squat who it is?) I will not vote for any incumbent and am supporting grass roots efforts for term limits. Enough is enough!