GOP addition by subtraction
Good news for Republicans! Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) Indicted
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Sen. Ted Stevens declared his innocence Tuesday after his indictment on charges that he concealed hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gifts and services from a company in his home state.
“My public service began when I served in World War II. It saddens me to learn that these charges have been brought against me. … I am innocent of these charges and intend to prove that,” Stevens said in a statement released by his office.
In the indictment, Stevens is charged with lying about receiving gifts worth more than $250,000 from Veco, an Alaska-based energy company on whose behalf he intervened in Washington.
Nice use of the WWII card by Stevens. That’s not gonna fly. It didn’t work for another corrupt GOP member of congress, the legendary Vietnam fighter pilot Duke Cunningham.
This guy is the poster child for a GOP that has gone off the rails since the 1994 “revolution”. Arrogant. Entitled. Proud of his wasteful spending. In short, he’s part of the problem.
On the plus side, he did provide some high comedy, with his unforgettable description of the Internet,
“It’s a series of tubes!”
As Bruce McQuain said at QandO,
Frankly, we need to see a few more of these arrogant yahoos who abuse their power and the intent of their office to be frog marched off to jail. And Stevens will be a nice start.
Good riddance to Ted Stevens. The GOP, and the senate, are better off without him.
UPDATE: Eagle eyed Jake Tapper at ABC News has highlighted his favorite nugget in the Stevens indictment,
But my favorite detail from the indictment — in the Spring of 1999, the indictment alleges, the CEO of oil services company VECO, Bill Allen, traded Stevens a brand new 1999 Land Rover Discovery, worth about $44,000, for Stevens’ 1964 1/2 Ford Mustang and $5,000.
Stevens’ Mustang was at the time worth less than $20,000, the indictment says.
July 29, 2008 4:56 pm 
So when a Congressman from Louisiana at the height of their flood..commandeers the time and energy of people who could be helping the Citizens…to go to his own home and save HIS stuff..thats Okay…John Murtha took care of his family from his post in DC..a La Rep got caught with a lage sume of cold CASH in his Freezer? His family is in Africa making DEALS.. and the latest “JF Kerry” partying with girls Younger than his own daughters..all this is Forgiven…and allowed..Democrats just work so hard they want to do a little on the side!
If we look in our own State House we might be Amazed at how “Success” is used by the Dems…
While Dems in the north are depriving Their own voters of something so basic as HEAT..who will show up to vote for them? We will all be without gas for the car and Frozen..the only folks who will make it there will be the illegals who get their oil from Hugo…
Until we have TERM limits…and until we cut thouse HUGE unknown staffers in DC…we will all get what we deserve.
Anyone know how much the Unknown workers who run the government cost us each year..NO MATER WHO COME AND GOES..THESE FOLKS STAY..MAKING A VERY GOOD SALARY AND POSSESSING ALL THE POWER..AND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE DON’T EVEN KNOW WHO THEY ARE… IF WE ONLY SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT FOR A WEEK ..WE COULD DO VERY WELL..I THINK EVERYONE SHOULD BE FIRED AT THE END OF EACH TERM..THAT WOULD SAVE TONS OF MONEY
Nice try at deflection Caron. Of course Ted Stevens should be excused because the Democrats are far far worse. Now, let’s look at this logically. Bush has been in office and controlled the Justice Department for how long? And how many Democratic Senators and Reps have been indicted? And how many Republicans? Don’t you think the GOP controlled justice system would be trying to as hard as they can to find illegal acts be Democrats? Of course, when the Republicans are so stupid and obvious you kind of have to pick the low hanging fruit. And furthermore, of the activities of Democrats you describe, how many are actually illegal? That’s what I thought. Go hide back under your bridge. This is a time where Kevin has it absolutely right. If the GOP is to be taken seriously, they need to clean house before pointing fingers at Democrats.