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Sen. Ted "Tubes" Stevens Is Indicted
Many readers are letting us know about the indictment of Sen. Ted Stevens on seven counts of making false statements on his financial disclosure forms. We discussed the raid on the senator's house a while back. Everyone's favorite technologically challenged senator is the longest-serving Republican in the history of the upper house. An Alaskan paper gives deep background on the probe that has ensnared Stevens and a number of other Alaska political figures.
First let me get this out of the way: Anchorage Daily News is horrible. They routinely run stories with huge problems, missing information, and always a liberal slant.
OK... to the real issue here: Ted Stevens MIGHT be convicted. Until then he is innocent until proven guilty. And it would really benefit the state if he were to be acquitted. He might not be the most technologically savvy senator in the USA but he certainly has done a great deal for the state, much more than any other politician. There is a great fear that nobody else (the up-and-comer Mark Begich for example) will be able to pull the kind of strings in Washington that Stevens was able to pull -- at least not for decades.
Our state certainly needs to rid itself of corruption. If Stevens is convicted it will be a sad day. What he is charged with is so petty compared to the greater good he has done that will be a crying shame. And entirely his fault. He should of course take the blame for his actions. But that doesn't change the fact that it will hurt the state MORE if he is convicted.
The main damage won't come from loss of Stevens, as he is 84 and wouldn't have been in his seat much longer anyway. Instead, the damage comes from the hurt this does to the Republican party in Alaska. You know, the people who want to explore and develop our natural resources like oil, gold and copper. Now that is unlikely to happen. The Liberals are going to run wild for a time, unchecked... we'll see how it all plays out in the end. I just hope it isn't too bad. Liberals AND Republicans both need to keep each other in check.
Anyway...
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Stevens, McGreevey, Republican, Democract, they are all thieves and all the same. Unfortunately it took segregationist Governor Wallace to reveal the truth that "there's not a dime's worth of difference between" Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats willingly went along with the War in Iraq, suspension of Habeas Corpus, detaining protesters, banning books like "America Deceived' from Amazon, stealing private lands (Kelo decision), warrant-less wiretapping and refusing to investigate 9/11 properly. They are both guilty of treason.
Go to the larger GOP convention and support Dr. Ron Paul and save this great nation.
Last link (before Google Books bends to gov't Will and drops the title):
America Deceived (book)
At the rate we Republicans are going, all of our guys are going to wind up in jail.
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JFK got us into vietnam. Don't be blaming the guy who had to clean up the mess.
Viral software licensing is not freedom, it is in fact GNU/Socialism.
That's the problem with most of our citizens being educated by the liberal media.
Vietnam casualties: Under Kennedy and LBJ (Democrats): 32,000+
Under Nixon and Ford (Republicans): 16,000+
source: http://www.rjsmith.com/kia_tbl.html
Vietnam: started on a lie by a democrat. Used conscripted (forced) Americans to fight a losing war.
Vietnam: ended by a Republican (Ford), de-escalated by a Republican (Nixon), conscription stopped by a Republican (Nixon).
Nixon did a lot of great things for this country (which the media stonewalls to the day).
What's even more sad is that Nixon is probably the most honest president we had since the mid-20th century.
Obama likes poor people so much, he wants to make more of them.