’)Woot.
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term. The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday’s count. That’s an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.
Oh thank God.
hA-Ha!
Awesome news. Republicans won’t take out their own trash re: convicted felons, so the voters of Alaska had to do it for them.
Nice job.
“No, this isn’t happening!”-Greta Van Susteren to her Sarah Palin doll
Perfectly purple prose:
“crotchety octogenarian built like a birch sapling”
SNAP, muthaf**ka.
Between Alaska and Minnesota, I’d have rather had Minnesota (better chance of holding onto Paul Wellstone’s old seat longterm). But maybe we get both?
Good riddance.
Jaim, you might want to reconsider that term, especially in light of Alcee Hastings.
And while not convicted, dare I bring up the name William Jefferson?
Hell, Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd are still in the Senate.
There’s also Harry Reid’s land deals, Dianne Feinstein steering billions to her husband’s oompanies, Pelosi’s investments in T. Boone Pickens’ companies…
Or the “Friends of Angelo” who got sweetheart mortgages from Countrywide, like Chris Dodd…
Stevens is a senile old swine, and I am glad to see him gone. I was also glad when I heard that Palin had campaigned for his primary rival. Now if the Democrats could do a little housecleaning of their own…
J.
We’re sort of busy cleaning conservative garbage out of our government.
Hmm… I seem to recall something about motes and beams and eyes…
J.
Sounds like World of Warcraft!
Oh don’t you fucking dare talk about motes and beams and eyes when the Republican Party continues to go on about the sanctity of marriage while cheating on their third wives.
SpiderJ, if you’re talking about gay marriage, I’m on record — repeatedly — of favoring it.
And if I may expand on my prior list, the Democratic party poured tons of money to save the ass of Jack Murtha, who declared US troops as “murderers” and other things — before they had been tried, and acquitted.
And Parthenon, you CAN NOT be saying that you’d actually WANT Al Franken in the US Senate, can you? The fact that that asshole has a (D) after his name can’t override everything else about the guy, can it?
J.
What’s not to like? I miss something? I agree with quite a few more of his positions than Norm Coleman, from what I’ve seen of them. His political commentary career has consisted of taking people on (Bill O’Reilly, Ann Coulter, etc.) who frankly need to be taken on. I don’t want a Senate with 60 populist Al Frankens, but they could use one or two.
Well, there was Stuart Saves His Family.
Other than that, though…
Normie is Rove’s butt-buddy. The only thing Normie cares about is Normie. He has NEVER done anything for anyone without benefit to Normie. I’m a lefty. I would rather pull the lever for StRonnie or Barry Goldwater than for Normie. At least Ronnie & Barry believed in something. Normie is the most useless piece of shit that exists in the Senate.
Hmm….
I wonder if I was clear enough?
Jay Tea – I know you are. And I’m sure that’s a very popular position in the Republican Party. I’m sure of it.
But nobody was talking about you. You were talking about the hypocrisy of Democrats in response to the hypocrisy of Republicans and decided to quote Jesus to support your point. And I say that the Republicans can have Jesus back when they start caring about the poor, downtrodden, sick, and marginalized just like he did.
“And if I may expand on my prior list, the Democratic party poured tons of money to save the ass of Jack Murtha, who declared US troops as “murderers” and other things — before they had been tried, and acquitted.”
So you are comparing a seven-time convicted felon with someone who said something you don’t like.
And why should we take you seriously?
Actually, Quaker, I was comparing him with Alcee Hastings, the former judge who was impeached and removed from office. The rest were other non-felonious scumbags I just tossed in for good measure.
Like I said at the outset: good riddance. Stevens is a senile, superannuated scumbag, and the people of Alaska should have bounced him a long time ago. But since you folks are on your moral high horse, I thought it might be helpful to point out a few more scumbags who could use some similar attention.
Scumbaggery in high office is pretty much non-partisan. I’ve even said that members of Congress, when indicted, should be held to a “guilty until proven innocent” standard just on general principles. To crow that one side is more or less corrupt than the other is pointless, and usually is done as part of an effort to protect one’s own scumbags.
J.
Hey, how did I get mixed up in this? Are you just getting your licks in before I come along to show how wrong you are?
Scumbaggery in high office is pretty much non-partisan.
Surely it’s just a coincidence that all the people you mentioned were from he party you oppose.
Shall we throw in Tom DeLay and Mark Foley in the interest of bi-partisanship?
David Vitter? Larry Craig?
Duros, I didn’t bring up them because I knew that the folks here could cite at least a dozen corrupt Republicans at the drop of a hat.
But I do have questions about DeLay. I never liked the guy, but his argument about prosecutorial vendetta seems to have some teeth. The first grand jury refused to indict, and the second violated the Constitution and indicted him of violating a law before it went into effect. That is enough for me to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Mark Foley is another scumbag, and good riddance, but it appears he stayed just within the letter of the law. Unlike his successor, who very well might have violated labor laws in threatening his former mistress/employee.
Craig is a pathetic loser of a joke. Vitter should be shunned.
And before you bring him up, Cunningham is right where he belongs.
Your turn, chum…
J.