Goodbye Ted Stevens, Good Riddance

1Aug2007 Filed under: Politics Author: Mike Van Winkle

According to Citizens Against Government Waste Ted Stevens, the Senator from Alaska, is personally responsible for $3,057,614,028 worth of federal pork spending.

Today it is being reported that FBI and IRS agents are searching his home in Alaska for “records related to his relationship with an oil field services contractor jailed in a public corruption investigation.” Not that I wish ill on anyone, but the thought of early retirement for Sen. Stevens makes me smile.

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One Response to “Goodbye Ted Stevens, Good Riddance”

Daniel Messick
August 1st, 2007 at 9:11 am

What really angers me is that Stevens argues that an attack or investigation against him is an attack against the state of Alaska…and that the “good people of Alaska” are ultimately the people who are ultimately hurt here.

Come again? If the “people of Alaska” have had Stevens siphon tax payer money up to Alaska by questionable means, isn’t it the people of the other 49 states that are truly being hurt here?!?

This is yet another example of law makers in Congress believing that they are above the law. There is ZERO fiscal responsibility, because Congress doesn’t seem to correlate tax payer money with the tax payers. Instead, they seem to treat revenue as a “pot of never ending money” that comes from heaven, that can be used to do wondrous things, like Stevens wish for a “bridge to no where” in Alaska, that even the people of Alaska thought was a boondoggle.

Yet, its congressmen like Rep. Jeff Flake, AZ (R), who get catcalls and anger from their colleagues for QUESTIONING these earmarks, and other completely ridiculous expenditures.

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