Sen. Stevens guilty on all counts, career in peril

 Despite being a convicted felon, he is not required to drop out of the race or resign from the Senate. If he wins re-election, he can continue to hold his seat because there is no rule barring felons from serving in Congress. The Senate could vote to expel him on a two-thirds vote. Email you Senators NOW make it happen, DEMAND  it. AND NO PENSION EITHER,

Another fine upstanding Republican "Family Values" hypocrite takes a fall. Hopefully this is only the first Senate seat to be lost by the Republican Party this year.

The 40 years in the senate has taught Sen. Stevens to lie well, even caught red-handed. This is a typical career politition, who has spent way to much time in the senate. He lied on Government forms about his assets and debts. not once, but several times. I guess he thought he wouldn't get caught.

If he had the work done, So what, at least admit it, and at least have a receipt for your payments. He didn't have any receipts for the work done on his house. He definetely used his position to secure this major renovation to his home. He still intends to stay in the race for Senator again. He's stayed to long in his current position and now needs to be replaced. 

40 years of career in the washroom...? He should have never started a career in the first place.

hello.................................................!

The root of evil is girls.

AIP of Alaska at Work or what`s going on here?

The bible says. girls..girls girls..

Sarah Palin, Adam and Eve.

America should be aware of the "DIVA"

The population of America is 300 million AND the population of Alaska is 670 thousands

hello......!

I cannot get over the travel expenses reported for Palin's family and the redneck boy stud.
Did this boy totally unrelated also get free tickets and board from the taxpayers too? Is this the official duty and the standard to stand and tell the pro-republican people that it is all right to made underage girls pregnant and then be forced into shotgun wedding and expect them to be "happily ever after"? What are these people some of whom are evangelicals even?

Palin has to be charged.

Has anyone noticed that no Repubs or right-wingers have reared their heads into this thread to start with the "Well what about Obama?" nonsense?

Could it be that they are finally ashamed?

Here's the thing: there's some seriously crooked people on both sides of the aisle. We got dems running on a family values platform and getting caught screwing aides. We got repubs getting caught in bathroom stalls propositioning gay sex, we got finger-pointing all around.

The only thing about this is that it evens the playing field. If Sarah Palin brings up Obama's associations NOW, she'll not only look like a hypocrite, she'll look like a Class-A moron.... look's like the shoe is on the other foot

The worst thing about this whole situation is that Alaskan voters will STILL vote for this guy.

I mean come on!  This is the same guy who said that the internet is a "series of tubes!"

Then again, Alaska gave us Sarah Palin, so it's pretty clear just how "blessed" we are by their gifts to the national political scene.

It renews my contension that Political Power breeds Greedy Unethical Crooks no matter what Party.These egotistical,selfcentered people are big spenders with our tax money and lose contact with any ethics or morals.They feel they are entitled to whatever they are given by "LOBBIST & CONSTITUENTS".

Let's see how fast the RNC can "clean up" any remarks Gov. Palin has made in support of Sen. "I am not a crook" Stevens during her public (albeit brief) career in Alaska politics.

Sen. Stevens is a liar and so is Gov."Wink-Wink" Palin.

I hate to say it, but Marion Berry and Kwame Kilpatrick are still alive and kickin' in their political roles. Senator Stevens, you are in good company.

I wonder what the Anchorage newspaper will have to say. They just the other day endorsed Senator Obama and not Moosepoop Sara!

You know what is really hideous about all of this?  Ted's daughter looks just like him.  Eeee gads!!

Only in America could felony convictions "imperil" a political career rather than ending it immediately and permanently.

So they have convicted Stevens of accepting money from an oil contractor? We all know that no one spends money without receiving something for it, which means that Stevens was accepting bribes to send bids to that contractor, and probably selling his vote in the Senate on certain bills.

Can anyone tell me how this is not treason?

We the people need to demand more from our representatives, and we need to start by making the punishment fit the crime. Those who commit treasonous acts, especially while sitting in positions of political power, deserve the death penalty. There is no greater deterrent. Instead, time and again we see these people simply step down and do no hard jail time, receive no financial penalties, and often receive pardons from the sitting president.

Tom DeLay sold votes in the House of Representatives to Russian oil barons in an arrangement set up by Jack Abramov, and yet he is a free man. Free enough to host a party at the GOP convention featuring a band named "Hookers & Blo". Kind of funny that a week after the convention it was discovered that members of the Dept. of the Interior were found guilty of accepting bribes, in the form of prostitution and cocaine, given out by major oil companies.

Let the punishment fit the crime.