Archive for the ‘corruption’ Category

Oct
27
2008

Ted Stevens can see Russia from his jail cell

posted by Charlie at 5:17 pm.

Ted Stevens, the longest serving Republican senator in history, was found guilty on all seven counts of federal corruption charges, proving once again that just because you’re old and have been in politics forever, it doesn’t make you good at.

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Ted “Why coming from an oil producing state isn’t necessarily a good thing” Stevens

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Jesse “I’m going to sing Dixie until I make a black woman cry” Helms

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Strom “I’ll fuck them but I won’t let them vote” Thurmond

The scary thing is, even with the corruption trial, Stevens’ democratic opponent only leads by 1.5% in the polls.