He was corrupt then, he's corrupt now, so what's Palin's problem?

[Image of Ted Stevens by Lauren Victoria Burke/AP]

I don't get it.

I mean she's for him before he got into trouble. She was against him when he got into trouble because she figured he couldn't win so suggested he might want to drop out of the race. Now, that his indictment has been dismissed, she's for him again.

Makes you dizzy watching Ms. Sarah spin around!

Ted Stevens has been corrupt for years. The people of Alaska have excused that corruption and elected the old bat to Congress because he done so much good for the people of Alaska. Shore enuf!

He wasn't found not guilty, by the way; and no matter what he would like to believe, this does not clear him of the charges. The indictment was dismissed, not because he was innocent or such a nice guy, but because the prosecutor messed up big time. So old Ted gets a walk. Doesn't mean he shouldn't be in prison. Doesn't mean he's been washed clean in the blood of the lamb.



But Palin's been spinning!

Poor Ted. He probably would've been elected if it wasn't for this horrible trial. What to do? What to do?

Aha! Let's tell the guy who was elected legitimately by the people of Alaska, to get his funky ass out of Washington so Alaska can hold another election and send good, ol' corrupt Ted back to the Senate where he belongs and where he can pork-a-lot of stuff back to the people, whom he loves so much.


And that's what Randy Ruedrich (he's the chief poohbah of the Repugnican Party in Alaska) did! As reported by the Anchorage Daily News, Ruedrich "called on Sen. Mark Begich to step down from the U.S. Senate, saying that the state's voters would have re-elected former Sen. Ted Stevens had they known the U.S. Department of Jusice would abandon its prosecution of him."

Heh, heh, heh!

Palin, the prevaricator, jumped on the Ruedrich bandwagon, saying, Yes! Yes! Let's have a special election. Begich give it up and crawl back to Alaska!


Hah! Begich said, nicely, go to hell! He reminded these Repugnican morons that Stevens was in trouble long before the Senatorial race and he [Begich] was elected because the people of Alaska wanted a change from the corruption that prevails among rightwingnuts in the Repugnican Party.

Indeed, it's amazing how morally bankrupt the Republican Party really is. Palin and every other Repug in Alaska knows about Ted Stevens. But Stevens has brought more federal dollars to Alaska than there are Polar bears and wolves hiding from Sarah! So, who cares if Stevens is corrupt?

Fortunately, Begich is in place and cannot be removed by the whims of a Repugnican state chairman or a moronic Repugnican governor.

Still...

No resignation from Mary Beth Buchanan

[AP Photo by Gene J. Puskar]

It is commonplace and considered good form and decent human behavior for U.S. attorneys to tender their resignations when a new president takes office. That clears the playing field and allows the new executive to fill those slots with new appointees.

Mary Beth Buchanan is the U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh. Appointed by George W. Bush, she's hung her hat in that office since 2001.

Mary Beth Buchanan is not resigning. Filled with love for her country and because of her ardent desire to ensure the upholding of the laws of the United States, Ms. Buchanan said righteously, "It doesn't serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time."


From all accounts U.S. attorney Buchanan is a hard-core Republican loyalist, and erstwhile supporter of prezident Bush. She is a "political" U.S. attorney, who according to Faiz Shakir at Think Progress, "has been criticized for bringing politically-motivated investigations and charges against politicians in western Pennsylvania."

Not only so, but she's the person responsible for hiring the incompetent and theocratic Monica Goodling, and has "had a peripheral role in the U.S. attorney scandal" working with Attorney General Gonzales regarding the political firing of U.S. attorneys who refused to cooperate with the partisan orders of the Gonzales' Justice Department.

Additionally, she's considered the government's bulldog with regard to obscenity and pornography.


All of this is old news and has been reported in numerous places. The most significant and amazing piece of information to come from Buchanan's office, however, is that this "political Bushite," a woman who has fit like a glove within the Justice Department of Bush, Ashcroft, and Gonzales, now indicates that she would consider "further service to the United States."

Repugnicans continue to amaze me. Evidently, Ms. Buchanan also is devoid of an inner ethical core. She is a horrendously partisan political appointee who has acted in a horrendously partisan manner during her tenure as a U.S. attorney; she refuses to follow protocol and resign her office; and yet she wants to work with President-elect Obama!

Why? And how could she possibly think that President-elect Obama or anyone else on the Obama team could or would trust her?

Put her out to pasture. Please!

Maybe she can give legal advice to Alberto Gonzales when he comes to trial for abuse of power.

There's more here from Daily Kos. The entire Shakir article at Think Progress is here.