Nail Em Up

Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee and the longest serving GOP senator, was indicted on seven counts for concealing more than $250,000 in gifts from oil services company VECO Corp.  VECO employees remodeled his home and the company traded a 35 year old Mustang for a 1999 Land Rover, among many other things.  Since federal agents raided the offices of six legislators' offices in 2006, including Ben Stevens' (Ted's son), five have been sentenced to prison and VECO's CEO, Bill Allen, pleaded guilty in May 2007 to bribing state officials.  With Allen's cooperation, hopefully the government will be able to nail this 84 year old bastard and send him away for the rest of his short life, and with a miracle he could end up in a federal pound-him-in-the-ass prison.  Corrupt politicians like Ted are disgusting and they're increasingly becoming a Republican problem that will simply hand Democrats more seats this year, but with the party in its current state I'm not sure I give a damn.