Thursday, April 2nd, 2009...2:42 pm
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They are voiding the conviction of Ted Stevens due to prosecutorial misconduct. No one has actually disputed the allegations of the case, but it seems that the entire Washington establishment has fallen all over themselves feeling sorry for the guy.
I’m wondering if, by this standard, O. J. Simpson was perfectly innocent too.
The Alaska Republican Party is actually asking for a re-do of the November election. Does he really want his old seat back? Last I checked, the guy is living here in Arizona and who knows if he’s been back to Alaska.
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April 2nd, 2009 at 4:21 pm
Corruption is wrong regardless of which party. He shouldn’t run again.
April 2nd, 2009 at 4:43 pm
Let’s see,
1. It wasn’t a political hit job, or if it was it was a circular firing squad since the prosecutors are from the Bush justice department.
2. Is the GOP as excited then about maybe letting Don Siegelman get a re-do of an election if/when his conviction (which was a political hit job) is vacated?
April 3rd, 2009 at 6:43 am
Dropping charges due to prosecutorial misconduct is NOT the equivalence of an acquittal, or as that idiot Chris Matthews argued, that charges should have never been filed in the first place. Ted Stevens will walk away (and get to keep his lobbyist gifts) because of the rank incompetence and lack of ethics of the Bush Justice Department.
Why don’t we just sell Alaska to the highest bidder to pay off our national debt – and get rid of the Palinator in the process? Just a thought.
April 3rd, 2009 at 9:12 am
How strange that the Bush Admin DOJ would taint its case to the point that Ted (R-Nowhere) would either be acquitted or get out on appeal. Are we talkin’ incompetence (the default assumption, admittedly) or taking a dive?