0
POPSIs This Why Eric Holder Isn't Going After Bush Officials?
The tip I got was that the firm had a very important client. His name was George W Bush. And they represented a very important organization . . . called the Republican National Committee. I was in shock when I checked it--and it was true. My favorite research item I ran across is when they were protecting the RNC from having to turn over Karl Rove's e-mails that were run on the RNC servers. It shocked me. Plus I found it mighty interesting that AG Eric Holder never enlightened anyone about his conflicts of coming from a big Washington, D.C., law firm that represented the National Republic Committee and George W. Bush in the 2000 election contest. Simpson notes that Holder's favorable treatment of Republicans hardly stops with the Stevens case. She lists the Tobin phone-jamming case in New Hampshire, the Kott case in Alaska, and the Abramoff/Feeney case in Florida as examples of the Holder DOJ killing GOPers with kindness. What does Simpson make of it? It has long b
3
POPSStevens Judge Not Ready to Let Him Walk This case has become an embarrassment to the justice system. True, there are many examples of lawyer-based buffoonery taking place almost daily. But for the federal justice department to mishandle evidence (a very rookie mistake) and allow yet another corrupt politician to get away with what amounts to theft of tax payers dollars is unforgivable. On top of this travesty, people who have been sworn into their public office to uphold the law are now trying to get the former Senator Ted Stevens off scot-free. A very cynical person could even believe that the justice department purposefully held back evidence knowing it could allow Stevens to walk. “In the interest of justice” the public demands a clean slate at the justice department by replacing everyone with true professionals.
8
POPSRules For Democrats Are Just Different… For Some Reason What happens if the Democrat President nominates you for Treasury Secretary (the guy in charge of the IRS), and you get caught not paying your taxes? You get confirmed, and your power is continually expanded. What happens if you’re the Democrat Governor of Kansas, and you get caught cheating on your taxes? You get named to be Secretary of Health and Human Services. What happens if the adult daughter of the Democrat vice president is videotaped snorting coke, or the adult son of a Democrat Vice president is busted for drug possession? The MSM suddenly decide that the “children” of politicians are off-limits. Sorry, Bristol, Jenna, and Barbara.
2
POPSGrownups in charge of Justice Department again Due to prosecutorial misconduct, charges against Stevens will be dropped. Fair enough. Whether it's a Gitmo detainee or a US Senator, if the government cheats, the verdict can't be upheld. It's as important to out bad prosecutors as it is to nail Stevens. But - would Al Gonzales have done the same if it had been his political opposite?
1
POPSFeds Drop All Charges Against Former Sen. Ted Stevens Of course, the damage to Steven;s career and reputation is already done. It remains to be seen if the punishment of the prosecutors who disobeyed the court's orders to turn over exculpatory evidence that might have prevented an unjust conviction in the first place will reflect the magnitude of their misconduct. Because of their misconduct, Alaskans were misled and were not able to cast their votes based on true and accurate information. Simple disbarment is too good for them.
4
POPSReid Thinks Ted Stevens Should Not be Punished
Its plain to see, Senator Reid, you just don’t get it. The American people place our faith in you guys on the hill to keep your fingers out of the till. We trust you to not take advantage of us when we cannot be there to scrutinize how our tax dollars are spent. You guys make the laws that take money from our paychecks to pay you guys to look after our best interests. Here’s a news flash, Harry, it is NOT in our best interest to have money funneled to states for your pet projects. It is NOT in our best interest to remodel Ted Stevens home. It is NOT in our best interest to support criminal senators. It IS in this country’s best interest that criminals be made to suffer the consequences for their felonious activities. I dispute your description of him being a ‘real war hero’ , true he served during WWII and his squadron received the Air Medal, just as many others did. You say he was behind the curve of ‘modern ethics’, what does this mean? Ethics knows no time frame, sir.
6
POPSStevens Loses in Senate Race, Alaska Tuesday morning in the Capitol. Mr. Stevens’s defeat will strengthen a majority that Democrats sought to bolster Tuesday by allowing Senator Joseph I. Lieberman, independent of Connecticut, to retain his high-profile committee chairmanship. Instead, Democrats dropped Mr. Lieberman from another panel, delivering a mild rebuke for his strong support of Senator John McCain and other Republicans in this month’s elections.
5
POPSGOP Sen. Ted Stevens Loses Now they won't have to kick him out. Bonus, Sarah Palin's hopes that she gets to appoint Steven's successor goes down a series of tubes. Still, what does this say about the average Alaskan? Stevens is a convicted felon. It shouldn't even have been close. Republicans are so freakin' crazy up there that they'd rather re-elected a prison-bound criminal than a Democrat. Now those are partisan blinders.
4
POPSWhat is Blackwater Doing in Alaska? The Blackwater guards are nominally employed by Chenega, an Alaska Native corporation associated with the Alaskan coastal village of Chenega Bay, population 86. Alaska Senator Ted Stevens, architect of the “Bridge to Nowhere” and recently convicted of a seven-felony string of corruption charges, is one of the principal proponents of the anti-missile system and was also instrumental in writing laws which help secure government contracts for Alaska Native Corporations. Chenega gets contracts through the Small Business Administration, rakes off a percentage, then lets giant Blackwater provide the actual services. Since 2000 Chenega has received over $1.1 billion in sole-source or non-compete bids from the Army, Air Force and Department of Homeland Security. It's good to have friends in high places.
15
POPSWhat's wrong with Alaska's election? Despite a record-setting early vote throng, the overall participation supposedly decreased by 11% - the lowest participation by Alaskans in any presidential race ever! How could that be? Further, polls turned out way wrong, only here. Pre election polls had both Mark Begich-D and Ethan Berkowitz-D solidly beating incumbents Senator Ted Stevens and Congressman Don Young by at least 6-10 points. Stevens is currently ahead by 3,353 votes with 49,000 ballots left to count. Berkowitz, however, is behind by 16,887 votes; a 51-43 margin.
2
POPSConvicted Felon Leads in Alaska's Senate Race The voters are corrupt. “It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.” - David Brin “each candidate behaved well in the hope of being judged worthy of election. However, this system was disastrous when the city had become corrupt. For then it was not the most virtuous but the most powerful who stood for election, and the weak, even if virtuous, were too frightened to run for office.” - Machiavelli
1
POPSAlaska Senate Race - To Close To Call With the Senate Republican minority leader stating that "there is zero chance that a senator with a felony conviction would not be expelled from the Senate." What will Gov. Palin do with the apointment?
5
POPSRepublican Corruption. Republican Corruption.18 Republicans took campaign contributions from Sen. Stevens. Most are incumbents running for re-election this year.
4
POPSConvicted U.S. senator welcomed back to Alaska Where is the shame? Ted Stevens brought a lot of money to the state of Alaska. Apparently, this carries more weight than honor and ethics. "there is a 100 percent certainty" that the senate would vote to expel Stevens should he win re-election and his appeals fail.
3
POPSThe Internet Is Not a Big Truck - It's a Series of Tubes While debating a bill about the Internet in the U.S. Congress, 84-year old Senator Ted Stevens, with some degree of frustration at his fellow Senators decided to explain to them what the Internet was. "The Internet is not a big truck," he said. "The internet is a series of tubes." This led to a dozen or so YouTubes, with millions of hits. This clip here is one of them. Republican Senator Stevens, BTW, was convicted yesterday of seven felony counts of taking bribes. 2008 might go down as the worse year for George Bush's Republicans --- and it certainly hasn't been good for Republican Senator Ted Stevens. I don't think that after his many years in the U.S. Senate that he expected to be remembered for seven felonies - or his seven word statement: The Internet is not a big truck. It's not, BTW, the Internet is not a big truck.
1
Pops
Newest Clips
Latest Comments
Most Pops
Print
Save
Turn on live update