Sarah Palin Wants Alaska Senator to Step Down

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This is ridiculous, but that is to be expected of Sarah Palin, and the rest of the current GOP crop of cartoon characters. Former Sen. Ted Stephens lost his re-election bid because he was tried and found guilty on various charges. That guilty verdict has been set aside, because of basically a technicality. Most would not argue that he's automatically innocent.

Sen. Mark Begich, the Democrat, was elected. As far as I know, he's a bad Senator. But they expect him to step down because of the Attorney General's decision? That's just nuts. And it ain't gonna happen.

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Palin echoes Alaska GOP: Sen. Begich should step down to allow new election

Today, the Alaska Republican Party called for Sen. Mark Begich (D-AK) to step down and allow for a new election, in the wake of Attorney General Holder voiding former senator Ted Stevens’s guilty verdict, due to prosecutorial misconduct. This afternoon, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) echoed those calls and pressed for a new election. . .

Read more at: Think Progress

Ted Stevens Loses Senate Bid in Alaska

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The Democratic Senator number now stands at 58 (if you count Joe Liberman of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party and Bernie Sanders, Independent). That still leaves the unresolved Minnesota battle between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, and a runoff between Saxby Chambliss and Jim Martin in Georgia. It is possible that the number will total 60--a filibuster-proof majority--if both of those stragglers also go to the Democrats.

I doubt it will happen. Such an outcome is going to be demonized (as I'm sure it has been already) in Georgia, possibly enough to get Chambliss elected. I'm still holding out for Franken though.

But, poor Sen. Ted Stevens! It's his 85th birthday, for goodness' sake! Maybe he'll get a shiny new Presidential Pardon for his birthday? And now, we'll be deprived of the tantalizing possibility of a Sarah Palin ascension into the Senate. For now, anyway. . .

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Stevens loses Alaska Senate seat to Democrat

Sen. Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican in Senate history, narrowly lost his re-election bid Tuesday, marking the downfall of a pillar of the U.S. Senate and Alaska icon who apparently couldn't survive his conviction on federal corruption charges. His defeat to Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich moves Senate Democrats closer to a filibuster-proof 60-vote majority. . .

Read more (with video) at: MSNBC

Alaska Senator Ted Stevens Guilty (X7)

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Ted Stevens, Senior Senator from Alaska--and Sarah Palin political BFF--hasn't just been found guilty, he's been found guilty on seven counts. But being a felon, amazingly enough, is not enough to keep you out of the Senate, or even from running for another term.

Wouldn't you think that at 84 years old, he'd just hang it up?

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Stevens defiant after guilty verdict

A defiant Sen. Ted Stevens, convicted of corruption charges, said Monday he will fight the verdict "with every ounce of energy I have." He added he will not give up his bid for re-election.

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Sen. Ted Stevens Indicted on Multiple Counts

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Obviously) of Alaska has been indicted on multiple felony counts today. I'll confess, while I knew that Stevens was clueless about the internet (a series of tubes!), and had bad ideas (bridge to nowhere), I had no idea he was this dirty. Or that he was eighty-four years old! Yikes. He'll be the elder statesman of the pokey, that's for sure.

For old time's sake: The Internet is a Series of Tubes!



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Stevens denies charges that he failed to disclose gifts

Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens, at 84 the longest-serving Republican in the Senate and one of its most powerful members, was indicted Tuesday on seven felony counts alleging that he lied to conceal his acceptance of $250,000 in gifts and services from a now-defunct Alaska oil services and construction company. . .

Read more at: McClatchy