Ted Stevens

Now about that wardrobe.........

lemme see if I have this straight...felons are barred from voting in elections, but can hold national office?!? WTF?

Well, as a Democrat, I would like to thank Mr. Stevens for his fine service to my cause. Nothing would be finer than to point to the GOP as the party of convicted felons.

Life was in a different place when Stevens said that. He's had so much power for so long he didn't know he could be taken down. Begich is already ahead by a small amount, so he will be defeated.

Saw this coming when I heard about the chair in his house for seven years which he hadn't "accepted as a gift." No juror reasonable could hear that and think "no, he's not a crook!"

Should have invoked his right to silence.

THis is also not good news for Sarah Palin. (copying my last comment from another post):
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She may well have engaged in very similar practices in the building of her house ("It's the way they do things in Alaska" may come home to roost). And the amazing thing is that she actually invited the investigation that's going to look into this by asking the Personnel Board to look into Troopergate. And the investigator has made it clear he's extending the complaints he's looking into, and looking into more people.

Also breaking on MSNBC - apparently ATF looking into a plot by skinheads to assassinate Barack. Not exactly a surprise - I'd think there were a dozen of these a day, so why let us know about this one?

hmmmm - comment put into moderation, and maybe I would have too. Just check out MSNBC for other breaking news concerning barack. (though if it's on the teevee we should be able to say it here.

felons are barred from voting in elections, but can hold national office..

The barring from voting is decided on a state by state basis. In Florida he's be unable to vote for himself. I'm more interested in whether serving time is considered a better excuse for missing votes than campaigning is.

hmm - plans released in court records today, not not "news." Somebody wouldn't be trying to suggest we shouldn't elect Barack would they

Watch McCain say this is proof of how corrupt earmarks are, and how wonderful Sarah Palin is for confronting her own party in Alaska.

So how did everyone else put spaces into their names? I got stuck with khakipants because I couldn't get it to accept my old display name "sean decoursey forgot his password" which I'd kind of grown attached to.

Also, Yay! Yay! Yay! for convicting corrupt public officials. Hopefully more to come.

KT - yes, I know. I just thought there might have been a reason to thwart that last comment of mine, and you're free to delete it.
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Thanks for putting in the extra time on this. Mostly it has seemed to most of us that there isn't rhyme or reason to the moderation, so we mostly aren't getting bent out of shape about it.

Well, as Kathy has said, wait until they start in on Sarah's house. May not be done before the election but...
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Stevens sentencing hearing will likely be in February. If Martha Stewart had to serve time, he better serve some as well.

Karen - oh gosh. What a delicious possiblity! Would we pay to see a floor debate between Al Franken and Sarah Palin? Yes we would.

Nate Silver has Begich at 53% against Stevens, so Stevens is not likely to pick up ground now.

OMG, Franken - Palin debate? As jayackroyd said someplace else, I'm buying Orville Redenbacher futures!

It might be a fine thing if Palin were to appoint herself to the Senate. I'd love to let her get some national exposure (on a Michele Bachmann scale) over the next four years instead of seeing her re-emerge from the virtual media blackout of Juneau.

btw, KT – I don't know about the technical delivery issues, but the previous Swampland format wasn't broke. I can't stand this substitute, even if it's only a patch. I'm strongly inclined to hang out instead at FiveThirtyEight at least through next week.

I think that sews up that seat.
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Actually, the "preferred" method for the Republicans would be for Stevens to win, resign, and then have a replacement appointed to his position by Palin until a new election is held that is untainted by Stevens.
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Of course, that hinges on Stevens winning.

KT, LOL!
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FlownOver, I don't think they picked this as a fun thing to do for the last week of the election cycle. I thought the old software crashed and it took two days to get something (anything) up. Annoying as it may be, at least WordPress was a system that they knew would work.

More seriously, Stevens could resign now and let her appoint someone else, but I can't imagine that would happen for many reasons even apart from his ego.

Stevens will lose for sure, now. Many Alaskans are bound to be getting embarrassed about how their Republican politicians are looking nationally. I