Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens has lost his bid for a seventh term.
The longest-serving Republican in the history of the Senate trailed Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich by 3,724 votes after Tuesday’s count.
That’s an insurmountable lead with only about 2,500 overseas ballots left to be counted.
I think it’s pretty damn sad that the election ended up being as close as it was. I could be generous and say it was because of absentee ballots that were cast before he was a convicted Felon. To be honest I believe it was so close because a lot of people in Alaska loved the Federal pork Stevens pulled in and ignored his conviction to keep the trough open. Good evidence of this can be found in this article from the Anchorage Daily News which couldn’t help but list all the ‘good’ Stevens had done for the state…. in the end pegging simple ‘bad judgement’ as the reason he commited these Felonies.
I’ve wanted this man gone for a long time. He is one of the worst examples of corrupt pork masters in the Government. Good riddance.
Looks like MSNBC, as a network, has decided to make its preference for Obama a promotional tagline. But just ignore it. Remember. They’re journalists. They say so (even though Matthews says its his job to make sure the Obama Presidency ‘works’).
CHRIS MATTHEWS: Yeah, well, you know what? I want to do everything I can to make this thing work, this new presidency work, and I think that –
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Is that your job? You just talked about being a journalist!
MATTHEWS: Yeah, it is my job. My job is to help this country.
An incredulous Scarborough kept pressing, astonished at such a complete 180 from Matthews’s repeated insistence during the Bush presidency that he had to hold the government accountable.
So Obama annouced back in July his intention to create a civilian national security force.
“We cannot continue to rely on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded.”
No really sure what the means but it sure sounds a hell of a lot like the National Guard.
Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens was convicted of seven corruption charges Monday in a trial that threatened to end the 40-year career of Alaska’s political patriarch in disgrace
Stevens, 84, was convicted of all the felony charges he faced of lying about free home renovations and other gifts from a wealthy oil contractor.
Stevens should resign immediately. If he doesn’t, the Senate should boot him. It only takes a 2/3rds vote. Hopefully Senator Steven’s career is now on that ‘Bridge to Nowhere’.
The Republican party deserves to lose this Senate seat for allowing him to run for re-election in the first place.
“Mark my words,” the Democratic vice presidential nominee warned at the second of his two Seattle fundraisers Sunday. “It will not be six months before the world tests Barack Obama like they did John Kennedy. The world is looking. We’re about to elect a brilliant 47-year-old senator president of the United States of America. Remember I said it standing here if you don’t remember anything else I said. Watch, we’re gonna have an international crisis, a generated crisis, to test the mettle of this guy.“
Did he really just say that? Did he really just say that If we elect Obama their will be a ‘generated, international crisis’? No wonder they’ve been keeping Biden away from the press. He might has well have said ‘Vote McCain. Our enemies know what his response will be and won’t test him.’
Hmmmm…. I still think I’m sticking with ‘none of the above’ however.
The interviewer attributed McCain’s policies to Obama. The people who were asked couldn’t tell the difference.
“Are you more for Obama’s policy because he’s pro-life? Or because he thinks should stay in Iraq and finish this war?”
“I think because our troops should stay in Iraq and finish this war. I’m really with him on that.”
“Now if Obama wins do you mind Sarah Palin being vice president?”
“No. No I don’t.”
“Do you think she’ll do a good job?”
“I think she’ll do a good job.”
“Are you glad he elected her to be the VP if he wins?”
“Yep!”
