DCist: Sen. Ted Stevens Found Guilty

bp

Tue, 28 Oct 2008 14:00:16 -0500

Well, if Bush does pardon him, it will only confirm my suspicion that GOP stands for Greed, Obstruction, Power.

MikeB

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:06:50 -0500

um all that should be in italics (my bad) to indicate it's all from the Politico post.

MikeB

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 22:06:10 -0500

According to Politico Since 1789, the Senate has expelled only 15 of its entire membership. Of that number, fourteen were charged with support of the Confederacy during the Civil War. In several other cases, the Senate considered expulsion proceedings but either found the member not guilty or failed to act before the member left office. In those cases, corruption was the primary cause of complaint." In the entire course of the Senate's history, only four members have been convicted of crimes. They were: Joseph R. Burton (1905), John Hipple Mitchell (1905), Truman H. Newberry (1920), and Harrison Williams (1981). Newberry's conviction was later overturned. Mitchell died. Burton, Newberry, and Williams resigned before the Senate could act on their expulsion."

DCster

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 20:15:58 -0500

How did the jurors possibly reach this verdict? Just a few years ago a restaurant-owner gave me his $2500 vibrating chair and I told him, "no thanks, buddy, I don't want any gifts." Don't ask me how it's still whirling and pulsating around on my back as I type - it's not mine or anything. These sort of 'gifts' that aren't gifts are given all of the time. It's not like you have to be the head of some grant-making committee to get one...

Samer

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:39:48 -0500

@DCist: The Senate, to my knowledge, has never expelled a member. I could be wrong on that, but this NPR story says no other convicted felon (and there have been 10 others) has been expelled. If he wins, there's a good chance he'll serve until the appeals process is exhausted, at the very least.

indiecognition

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:35:27 -0500

I was talking about Congress, not prison.

aaronsinger

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:24:40 -0500

Inmates? He ain't going to prison.

indiecognition

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:14:01 -0500

I bet the other inmates will have a series of tubes for Stevens.

JoanArkham

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:08:15 -0500

Nope. Alaska just overturned that law, after their last governor appointed his daughter to take his place in the Senate.

ksf4

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:02:56 -0500

If he wins somehow, does Palin (not like she'll be VP) get to nominate the replacement? If so, the seat would stay republican, so enough reason for conservative Alaskans to still vote for him...

Fenster1977

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 17:00:45 -0500

I wonder if they'll hook him up his own series of tubes in his cell, you know...so he can receive internets from him friends and family. by far the best thing to come out of this are the phone call tapes between him and bill allen: ted: [going on and on about how the feds got nothing on them and there's nothing to worry about and bill should just stay calm] "You with me, buddy? OK?" bill: "OK." ted: "OK." bill: "Hey Ted..." ted: "Yeah Bill?" bill: "You know, uhhh... I love you, right?" ouch! the kiss of death. how the hell teddy didn't know right then that he was being taped...oh man. gold!

smperk

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:54:01 -0500

Looks like my buddy (the press secretary for Ethan Berkowitz) might be coming to DC soon now. Turn over, Alaska-- turn over!

timtheviking2

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:48:39 -0500

I hope he gets to take his shiatsu massage chair to prison, even though it doesn't belong to him. How many cartons of cigarettes is one of those worth?

IMGoph

Mon, 27 Oct 2008 16:44:15 -0500

adios, sen. tubes. we'll miss you in next year's coot-off!