<p>[Sen</a>. Stevens indicted: 7 false statements counts - Yahoo! News](<a href=“http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_go_co/stevens_indictment]Sen”>http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080729/ap_on_go_co/stevens_indictment)</p>
<p>Is that the same guy who insisted on building a bridge to nowhere and costs us hundred of millions ?</p>
<p>The very same. The longest sitting Republican Senator. Third in line for the Presidency 2003-2007. And a wonderful humanitarian. ;)</p>
<p>Are you implying that only Republicans push pork? Afterall, it was Republican Senator Tom Coburn who fought to have the earmaked$$ spent on bridge reconstruction in Louisiana. (Both Rs & Ds voted that down – they were all fearful that their OWN pork projects would be vulnerable.) And it was Republican Governor Sarah Palin who shut the project down.</p>
<p>And the conservative Heritage Foundation who fought to keep the project in the public eye:
[The</a> Bridge to Nowhere: A National Embarrassment](<a href=“http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm889.cfm]The”>http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm889.cfm)</p>
<p>I’m not implying anything. I’m just noting that another member of the Party of Appeasement and Family Values will soon have a new home.</p>
<p>This looks like an Associated Press story. </p>
<p>Well, at least it is not from the National Enquirer. :)</p>
<p>The indictment just solidifies my belief anyone who is an incumbent, regardless of party affiliation I will be voting against. I only wished I lived in a state with career politicians, WV, MA, DE, AK toget rid of them. Byrd is no better than Stevens! I am sure he also in his 50+ yrs accepted things that he shouldn’t have. I am not defending Stevens I am just saying that we need to get rid of the ones that have made a career in DC. Think about it, AK residents were more than happy to look the other way while they got Federal subsidies!</p>
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Congress did squat it was DOJ!</p>
<p>Have fun in prison.</p>
<p>Tega that will never happen, if you watched the DOJ news briefing they even stated if you add up the charges and penalties they are on the high end, which typically will not be applied. </p>
<p>Who was the last US Senator you can recall going to prison?</p>
<p>bulletandpima, Randy “Duke” Cunningham and James Traficant(Congressmen) are in jail for bribery.</p>
<p>Traficant even run as an independent candidate from prison, and he received 15% of the votes!</p>
<p>Big Dan (Dem-IL) comes to mind.</p>
<p>[From</a> the House to the Big House](<a href=“http://www.motherjones.com/news/outfront/1998/01/pritchard.html]From”>From the House to the Big House – Mother Jones)</p>
<p>Too bad Stevens is not a Democrat. If he was, he could pull a Williams Jefferson and keep on fighting until vindicated. After all, why trust a video tape when you can believe a Democrat. </p>
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[Filing:</a> Tape Shows Lawmaker Taking Money](<a href=“http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8HOCUJ81&show_article=1]Filing:”>http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D8HOCUJ81&show_article=1)</p>
<p>Don’t forget the $90K in cold (literally) hard cash stashed in William Jefferson’s freezer.</p>
<p>(Oh, I see you’re on top of that one, Razor!)</p>
<p>Gotta love the “everybody else is doing it, too” defense!</p>
<p>Who is defending whom?</p>
<p>I’d like to make a comment, but I try to limit my self to just one political thread at a time. :)</p>
<p>Don’t you store your cash in your freezer? Nothing suspicious about that! ;)</p>
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<p>Can’t help thinking that, if their parents had strongly invalidated that excuse (by words, actions, and examples), we would not be hearing it from grown adults.</p>
<p>I think this sort of graft is pretty much confined to the Democratic and Republican parties.</p>
<p>I would think that hiding, misappropriating or taking illegal financial contributions is an equal-opportunity white collar crime. Who was that big corporate big whig who went down several yrs ago for using corp. $$ to throw his wive an outrageoulsy lavish birthday party? Stupid and greedy is not limited to any particular political party, IMO.</p>