Alaska Senator Ted Stevens was indicted today for taking money from a company to remodel his house.
I have two thoughts.
1.) Good riddance.
2.) Who cares?
Most of our members of Congress do worse things than this on their jobs every day. Shouldn’t voting for unconstitutional bills and amendments be an indictable offense in and of itself?
This is certainly not the worst thing Stevens has done during his reign of terror in the Senate. It’s not even the next-to-worst thing or anything approaching the median. Stevens is the guy responsible for the Bridge to Nowhere, which means you’d be hard-pressed to find a worse traitor to the founding principles of our country.
Some Americans may hate our country. They may even want to do things to destroy it, but few get the chance. Ted Stevens has taken his chance and seized it. The policies he has stood for have bankrupted the United States, and he is a disgrace. There are many Senators and members of Congress just like him.
It goes far beyond the $136 million-plus Bridge to Nowhere.
The name of the case is United States of America vs. Theodore Stevens.
How apt.
Good riddance.
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