Indicted Sen. Stevens wins Alaska primary

Actually, lovetrust, that under-the-table business is how most things get accomplished in D.C. I don't condone it, but I can't change it, either. We'll see if this all "changes" when the CHANGE party takes over in January, eh?

Not likely for that even if they do get in. Did you get a load of the lobbyist's parties going on in Denver? They were BIG, they were well attended, they were dripping with $$$, and funny, they were EXACTLY what candidate Obama said he was AGAINST.

Don't look for CHANGE in his administration.

Republicans tend to vote for their own people regardless of what they do. Even though most of the National Debt has been signed for by Republican presidents, the Republicans still drone on with the myth that they are fiscally conservative. And the Republican "base" acts like a bunch of sheep.

"I don't condone it, but I can't change it..." If we all take this position, it will not change. There are ways to enforce corrective actions. One would be to have members of Congress "audited" by an outside organization with subpoena powers;" currently the internal ethics committees are not effective since they are more likely to cover my friends ass (CMFA). Something else that might be good is to make them follow the same laws that they actually pass; currently members of Congress don't have to follow things like equal opportunity or equal pay.

Suite Judy points out that there are lots of lobbyists in Denver, but we should also remember how many lobbyists were at the Republican convention in Miami and will be at the Republican convention in the "Twin Cities." There will be at least as many lobbyists there, if not more. No matter where you go, if you are holding a juicy sweet piece of melon, you are going to attract flys and gnats.

So I continue to maintain that both parties are largely made up of self-serving crooks. And short of some sort of grass-roots mutiny, which I'm not for, it all ain't about to change down in D.C. Politicians are all pretty much from the same mold.

Flash, do you know who William "Cold Cash" Jefferson is? So are Dems sheep as well? Or are you just ignorant? Look to your own party for coruption, before you start pointing the finger.

Just another example of Americans re-electing incumbents at a 95% rate, no matter what they do. Even without this indictment this guy should have been finished. This isn't a party thing, because both parties do it year in and year out. It still amazes me that some of the senior incumbents who are so old, whose better days are behind them and they should be in retirement, keep getting re-elected as well. This won't be the first crook to be re-elected.

Not just Republicans, but poor Americans. This corruption is rampant across all party lines, and if you think otherwise, you're just fooling yourself.

In this case Stevens, regardless of wrongdoing, proven or unproven is an institution in Alaska. He would have to do a lot more than that to lose his primary. Now we'll see what happens in November. In any case, I think it will be beneficial for Democrats that he won.

Linda's not fooling herself, it's called selective memory. Much like main stream media.

In any case, I think it will be beneficial for Democrats that he won.

With the trial fast tracked there should be a decision right before the election. Looks like another Democratic pickup in the Senate come January.

How do you figure when Alaska's total population are Republicans by a huge majority?

from the party of the chappaquidick butcher....

Only cold cash can be found in the fair refrig of Lousianna congressmen

Just a comment to everyone who is saying that the LA representative Jefferson was not punished at all: He was stripped of his committee chairmanship. Its up the primary and electorate voters to vote him out of office. Just as it was in Alaska. However, incumbency and voting tendencies are very strong within the parties.

Deep down in our compassionate souls we all sorta have a soft-spot for the bad guy, wouldn't you say?

How do you figure when Alaska's total population are Republicans by a huge majority?

Actually Democrats have been making inroads in local leadership (mayor, etc) for a while. And when Senator Stevens is convicted and sent to jail right before the election, even the Republican base will not turn out for him.

The " bridge to nowhere " wasn't a Stevens project. That was Don Young over in the House of Representatives. And the whole thing came about because Murkowski, the governor , had ties to the area. Tying the airport to the town was never the real issue, it was a huge land speculation deal and you'll never guess who the first people in line were. Anyway, the money still got appropriated and spent, just not on the bridge. Between the time Young got the money and actual delivery, we got a new governor who was from up north, so the dough went up there. That's the thing people in the lower 48 don't appreciate, if it benefits Alaska, it's ok. Seniority helps the state so much, the only way people like Young and Murkowski and Stevens leave office is if the Feds tie them up and physically carry them to prison.

The problem lies not in the candidates or they tenure, it lies with the fools who keep re-electing them and the fools in Congress who chose to support them. Either way, it is we the public who are to blame.

What are you saying MRT? That we are fools because we don't pay attention to what our reps. vote for and against. That we are clueless who their money backers are. That we are blinded when the pork comes home to our *neck of the woods* and that the sugar daddys corruption seems minor? LOL welcome to America pal where the honest Johns are woefully far a few in between in politics and on our streets across this land.

We HAVE term limits. They are called elections!!

Right on the money!

What values are they that has Jefferson (D) still in office after 90K in bribes were discovered in his freezer? Is that guy secretly a republican?

Actually Linda it's a tie between Stevens and Kennedy as to who's the biggest crook. (but really I'm not supposed to say that about Kennedy because he might be dying you know and he's family is famous, so we're supposed to pretend that he was ALWAYS pure and righteous.)

The problem is that the Senate would have to write the law for senate terms limits and then vote themselves out of office. I'm not waiting for the cows to come home on this one.

If they have their way they'll have one as a First Lady also.

William Jennings Jefferson (born March 14, 1947) is an American politician from the U.S. state of Louisiana. A Democrat, must have idiots voting for him too.

or the dems in LA (the state)