7.29.2008

Building a bridge to the federal pen

Sen. Ted Stevens is finally facing the music after years of corruption, now that the Feds are filing an indictment over false statements on financial disclosure forms.

I went to law school with a member of the Stevens clan, and let me just say this: if there were a law against siring daughters with huge foreheads, this guy would have been locked safely away from society a long time ago.

Is it any coincidence that Congress passed no such law during Stevens' forty-year tenure? I think you and I both know the answer to that.

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