Comments on: FBI Searches Sen. Ted Stevens' Home

Veteran Alaska Republican Has Been Under Investigation In Corruption Probe

[pepperp1]

...lobbying firm that hired former Sen. Conrad Burns is under investigation for the alleged misuse of federally appropriated funds....more than a party that has a culture of corruption I believe we have rightly moved to criminal enterprise, imagine what will break loose after Gonzo is bounced?

[tejasdemo]

Get ready for the bridge to the federal courthouse in Anchorage

[fizzal-2009]

Just what we need some oil field engineer working on building a house, and sounds simalar too some twp. sewer engineer working on an electrical street lighting system.

[hwk_i67]

I think it is criminal the way many of our politicians are bought and paid for, by corporations, unions, and the like. This is happening on both sides of the aisle and should be condemned equally.
Posted by tmbuccelli at 12:14 PM : Jul 31, 2007

Amen! It's time to stop being partisan of our contempt what's happening in Washington and realize they are both sides of the same coin!

[inspired12]

Stevens is just one more!

Our "elected" officials are NOT representing us. That is a charade, like the elections themselves have become. How many people realize that because of intensive "gerrymandering," at any given general election only about 4% of House seats are truly in dispute? Didn't know that? Didn't make the news recently? I wonder why.

Corruption is the becoming the rule. Fed up yet?

At this point, Impeachment is almost the MINIMUM we can do to restore some law and order here.

But with THIS Congress? Hah! Wanna see recalcitrant Dems find some courage and "get the message"? See http://switch2green.org for a tactic likely to have a major result. Your registration change could have more effect and leverage than your vote! Make them listen.

[infidel_us]

I am sick of all the pork projects, from Steven's "bridge to nowhere" to Kennedy's engine that the airforce doesn't want and the Big Dig fiasco.
Posted by tmbuccelli at 12:14 PM : Jul 31, 2007

Isn't this the same guy who wanted to paint a fish on the side of an AK airliner - to the tune of like half a million dollars???

[inspired12]

Stevens is just one more!

Our "elected" officials are NOT representing us. That is a charade, like the elections themselves have become. How many people realize that because of intensive "gerrymandering," at any given general election only about 4% of House seats are truly in dispute? Didn't know that? Didn't make the news recently? I wonder why.

Corruption is the becoming the rule. Fed up yet?

At this point, Impeachment is almost the MINIMUM we can do to restore some law and order here.

But with THIS Congress? Hah! Wanna see recalcitrant Dems find some courage and "get the message"? a href="http://switch2green.org" target="_blank" switch2green.org /a . Your b registration change /b ccould have i more effect /i and i leverage /i b than your vote! /b Make them listen.

[likeitis5050]

So, can we just agree that politicians, regardless party line, are prone to being scum because it's the nature of the field of work they chose? Lawyers, by nature, are self-serving and greedy. Why are we surprised to hear a politician has yielded to temptation? DUH! Why they aren't all fitted with tracking chips is beyond me. They can't be trusted to run to the store for milk and bread without scre..wing someone over before the errand is complete!

[l8c6]

Leadership at the top of both public and private sectors is full of a form of high society trailer trash that like to pick on the "common criminal" instead of taking a serious look at themselves.

A society or organizations mission, values and behaviors are established by the leadership. There is far too much garbage at the top and it's leading to collapse.

Monetary and material bribery is killing democratic society.

[l8c6]

What!? Another Republican in a corruption probe? It looks like there really is a "culture of corruption" in the Republican party.


Posted by micma

There is a culture of corruption. It goes all the way back to Reagan and the contras though many would rightly point to well before that. The powers that be like to cite any democrat i.e. Clinton making for a useful distractor to the people...smoke and screens. Clinton was in many ways an old republican but wasn't part of this club of parasitic privatized empire building fascist robber baron neo con multinational corporate crime ring.

[clestes-2009]

Stevens is an old time crook who should have been out of Congress years ago.

He is the perfect reason for TERM LIMITIS!!

He sold out his state, his integrity, his vote and his soul for oodles of moola. Remember the bridge to nowhere!! That was Stevens.

The life span of the pipeline and Stevens has been reached.

RETIRE THEM BOTH!!!!

[tbuccelli]

roger_inkart - Ok, let me state it bluntly. This crook should be kicked out and sent to prison, and not the nice kind either.

As I said earlier, most of the corruption I see first hand comes from Democrats in the lovely state of Illinois. From a historical perspective, look what it took for Rostenkowski to be kicked out, and more recently, look at the actions from our governor.

I am sick of all the pork projects, from Steven's "bridge to nowhere" to Kennedy's engine that the airforce doesn't want and the Big Dig fiasco.

I think it is criminal the way many of our politicians are bought and paid for, by corporations, unions, and the like. This is happening on both sides of the aisle and should be condemned equally.

[roger_inkart]

The issue is, I don't remember the same number of one line 'Democrats are crooks and liars.' comments, similar to the one made by tejasdemo a few minutes ago when discussing Jefferson.
Posted by tmbuccelli at 11:41 AM : Jul 31, 2007

Really? I did. But believe whatever you want and continue to see things as you want to. For an "indepedent" you certainly seems to have an ax to grind against the Dems and their supporters. I don't see any condemnation of Mr. Stevens from you, for that matter.

[lottapaws]

Vallel, term limits are a good idea! Try to convince Byrd, Kennedy, O'Neill and a number of others of that. Sen. Robert Byrd has been in office since 1959 and will be 90 in November of this year!

You make foolish comments when you are uneducated about what you are speaking.

lucious9, read the sentence above, it pertains to you as well.

I believe there is a Democrat in trouble right now for hiding bribe money in his freezer!

[infidel_us]

Oh, there goes that no good Bush justice dept again! :) Personally, I think this is great. Time to purge the republican party of corrupt RINOs and start from scratch.

[talkingham]

Repubs have been getting caught at a about a 10 to 1 ratio to Dems on these bribery and quid pro quo schemes. Either they are more corrupt or just bad at it. And these numbers don't include the complete stonewall of Congress by the Bush admin. Stay tuned, more to come.

[lottapaws]

What you fail to see is that Stevens is being investigated under a Republican administration. President Bush and the Republican Party do not want to cover up wrongdoing as the Dems would like to claim. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-OK, if you will recall, led the fight AGAINST Stevens regarding the bridge to nowhere even from heavy threats to Coburn from Stevens. The Republicans have been trying to STOP the pork barrel projects but the Democrats are fighting those efforts, and just recently have complained there isn't time to go over all bills, etc. Maybe if the Dems would quit spending their time with useless and knowingly fruitless, overt attempts to hurt the president and Republicans, they'd have time to do their JOBS and go over the bills.

The bridge to nowhere was blocked, however, there is funding in other areas that have been used for funding. Republican Tom Coburn was behind blocking that bridge, Dems don't get credit for it.

As for advance notice given to Stevens about the raid, are you that uneducated about the situation? This probe has been ongoing for a long, long time. Last year, because of this investigation, a number of STATE lawmakers were charged. At least the FBI raided his house and confiscated papers. Unlike with the Clintons when Hillary just claimed the papers were all missing and she just has no idea where they might be.

[tbuccelli]

roger_inkart - you seem to be one who drank party Koolaid, I am independent and vote for both parties (I am in Illinois where most of our crooks tend to be in the Democratic party).

Personally, I tend to think many members in both parties are a bunch of self-serving crooks.

The issue is, I don't remember the same number of one line 'Democrats are crooks and liars.' comments, similar to the one made by tejasdemo a few minutes ago when discussing Jefferson. It also seems that, at least here in Illinois, being a crook, is not a hindrance to being elected for Democrats, whereas the most recent Republican (Ryan) was voted out of office.

[micma-2009]

What!? Another Republican in a corruption probe? It looks like there really is a "culture of corruption" in the Republican party.

[theusa1st]

Another GOP crook looks to be going down in flames. Deal with it. You don't do your side any favors by being outraged over your imagined Democratic hypocrisy.
Posted by roger_inkart at 11:29 AM : Jul 31, 2007

There is nothing imaginary about the Democrats being hypocrits...they also have instant short term memory. One of the biggest hypocrits being Ted Kennedy...the guys enough to make a person vomit everytime he opens his mouth. The Republicans are no better...throw them all out. Both sides of the aisle smell...we better flush twice.