Comments on: Ted Stevens: Hurry up with the trial so I can get re-elected pork king again

By: FirstSkirt

FirstSkirt — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:08:47 +0000

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!

By: swmbo

swmbo — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:15:41 +0000

Some pompous, arrogant, self-centered, power-hungry, pork-spending jerks just don’t know when to quit, do they?

Don’t talk about San Fran Nan that way. LOLROF

By: DBNinKY

DBNinKY — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 13:05:27 +0000

On July 31st, 2008 at 3:03 pm, lgm said:

“…Republicans outnumber Democrats 5 to 1 in Congressional indictments.”

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.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:58:51 +0000

Are you kidding? My kids iPods hold more mp3’s than that. Just FYI, 500 gigs is about $100 at Fry’s Electronics….

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.

By: TheExPat

TheExPat — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 05:25:14 +0000

where the senator has been a political patron since before statehood

So he has even more in common with Ted Kennedy than just his first name?

By: dominigan

dominigan — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:53:00 +0000

On July 31st, 2008 at 2:45 pm, Craig said:

Prosecutors said they had nearly 500 gigabytes of evidence…

SAY WHAT? That’s enough information to choke the Library of Congress

Actually, it’s probably just image scans of documents. Pretty standard when you need to capture any extra things like handwritten notes.

By: Dimsdale

Dimsdale — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 01:11:31 +0000

On July 31st, 2008 at 3:03 pm, lgm said:

Culture of corruption.

At which Republicans far outnumber Democrats. Some Democrats have been indicted, but Republicans outnumber Democrats 5 to 1 in Congressional indictments.

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…

By: Barry F.

Barry F. — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:19:25 +0000

On July 31st, 2008 at 3:03 pm, lgm said:

At which Republicans far outnumber Democrats. Some Democrats have been indicted, but Republicans outnumber Democrats 5 to 1 in Congressional indictments.

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.

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By: zorro

zorro — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 22:11:54 +0000

Typical career politician.

Was there a statement from the RNC?

The answer to career corrupt-o-crats? Term Limits.

By: allrsn

allrsn — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:51:43 +0000

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)

By: Weary Citizen

Weary Citizen — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 21:42:08 +0000

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!!!

By: Marc

Marc — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:56:13 +0000

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.

By: nyc123me

nyc123me — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:49:15 +0000

lgm “Republicans outnumber Democrats 5 to 1 in Congressional indictments.” Cite please.. or are you just making it up as you go, again.

By: nyc123me

nyc123me — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 20:46:10 +0000

Minor correction..
“Stevens’ legal team asked the judge to move the trial to Alaska, where the senator has ~~been a political patron since before statehood~~ already got the judges in his back pocket.”
That’s more like it.