"Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption

DragonTHC writes "Senator Ted Stevens, Republican of Alaska, is being investigated in a federal corruption probe that has implicated his son Ben. Part of the case involves a fishing co-op whose members allegedly paid Ben Stevens $500,000 to get a federal bailout from his father." The other Alaskan senator, also a Republican, is under a cloud as well.

Comments

This will end well..

[Daychilde]

"also a Republican,"

Well, I foresee this ending well... heh.

Re:Are these the senators that wanted the bridge?

[fishyfool]

Will someone explain to me how my original post was a troll?

Re:Are these the senators that wanted the bridge?

[SnapShot]

That may be true. But should the taxpayers of the rest of the country be paying $500million for a bridge or a town relocation? Heavily Republican Alaska is already the biggest welfare state in the union. And, in any case, it's not like a lack of a bridge was a surprise to the people living on the island. Or maybe it was...

"Honey, I was just driving to the airport and I was halfway down the beach before I realized there's no bridge. Why didn't the real estate agent tell us about this? I guess we should call Senator "Tubes" Stevens to get us a new bridge."

Re:we need to call BS on "small government"

[cloudwilliam]

"The only problem, of course, is that the Democrats are just as bad, if not worse [than Republicans] and their policies are even more harmful to the country."

Yeah, that whole Republican platform of bankrupting the treasury while waging open ended wars is fucking top notch. What's worse about the Democrats? Responsible governmental spending? Yeah, yeah, news flash, even Lyndon Johnson's wife is dead. So is the idea that Dems spend with abandon. Liberal social views--i.e. homosexuals, women and blacks deserve the benefits of full citizenship? Man, can't see how that's gonna harm the country. The idea that maybe we ought to limit our military actions to wars of necessity rather than wars of choice? Again, I don't know...that just sounds reasonable.

Re:Let's Compare!

[0xdeadbeef]

Heh, at first I thought you were ridiculing the kid-gloves being used by the reporter.

Teh MainStream Media has a librul bias! Except when it doesn't! Why does slashdot hate America?

Re:Earmarks are good?

[scheming daemons]

These clowns are republicans in name only.

I'm starting to get how it works now.

• Republican under investigation for a sin of "vice" = Republican in Name Only
• Republican who has the nerve to voice an opinion that is in conflict with the official Bush Administration position = Republican in Name Only
• Republican who attempts to reach out to independents and (gasp!) Democrats to reach consensus on an important issue = Republican in Name Only

Whereas:

• Republican who has sex only with his wife (if at all), marches lock step with the administration, and toes the party line on all issues = Real Republican

The problem for the GOP is that there are starting to be fewer and fewer people who have the "purity" to belong to that second group.

Double standards.

[MaWeiTao]

Ted Stevens should certainly be held responsible for this. But if we're going to start seeing claims that republicans under "clouds" I think it would only be fair, and unbiased, to start running stories on democrats under similar situations. Because this problem of family members getting cushy jobs in government is a common problem in both parties.

Even worse than that, a shocking number of close relatives to politicians are lobbyists. I heard the figures the other day, but I don't recall them now. But this problem goes right across party lines.

The problem is inevitably that people call out the republicans for this sort of thing, but then are always making excuses when the democrats do the same. Case in point: Dianne Feinstein's husband is a defense contractor. In early 2003 his company won a contract that could earn the company $3.1 billion over the following 8 years. I certain heard nothing about this. But people did go nuts over the thing with Cheney and the company he was no longer working for.

Even worse, I've seen numerous blogs trying to excuse democrats or come up with ways to somehow explain away the problem. But when a republican gets accused of the same damn thing suddenly their actions are inexcusable. The guy might as well be Satan incarnate.

Look, I think the republicans need to be held to task for all of this. It all is inexcusable and frankly I think many of them are scumbags trying to profit from their position in as many ways as possible. But enough with this double standards bullshit. The democrats are just as guilty as the republicans and it's time we say unbiased coverage of both parties.

Re:Are these the senators that wanted the bridge?

[orcrist]

Wow. You're a fucking dick aren't you? Military kicked out? Hmmmmmm... that's strange since I served MY time in the military and I don't remember getting kicked out when visiting home on leave. I assume from your statements that you served too? And presumably got kicked out of SF? Or are you one of Cheney's armchair warriors? All tough talk, while you stay home and watch football.

And WTF? "Fornicating gay men in the streets." Turn off Fox, put down the remote control and back away from the TV. Apparently you haven't even visited there before and you're already an expert? ....So you're an idiot too.