Senator "series of tubes" Stevens convicted on 7 felony counts

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1008/14819.html

by tptacek • 18 years ago

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huhtenberg• 18 years ago

Karma.

thras• 18 years ago

As usual, I'm amazed at how cheap it is to buy off our Congressmen. Abramoff was sentenced for picking up a few $100 restaurant tabs. Now Stevens is heading to jail over things like a free massage chair and work done on his house.

With the price so cheap, I wonder if I should look at buying my own Congressman as an investment opportunity? I'm sure I could think of useful things for him to do.

ComputerGuru• 18 years ago

While I whole-heartedly agree, I do feel the need to point out that quality massage chairs aren't even remotely "cheap" by any standard.... if they were, I'd be sitting on one right now! :D

vaksel• 18 years ago

I think the reason we see these guys getting caught for $100 tabs is because they get sloppy. There were probably millions in kickbacks which they were able to hide properly because they took the effort to do it right. But a $100 kickback by comparison gets overlooked as an insignificant amount

Eliezer• 18 years ago

+1 Insightful, mod parent up

(no, seriously, this is a really important point)

dgordon• 18 years ago

How do idiots like this get reelected for forty years?

ajmoir• 18 years ago

Look around you. It's the people. Dumb and ignorant.

mhartl• 18 years ago

Not that there aren't plenty of dumb people around, but the ignorance part is practically unavoidable. Even smart people have little incentive to be well-informed when there are a large number of voters. This "rational ignorance" is a basic defect of democracy.

lallysingh• 18 years ago

It's the same state that made Palin their governor.

mlinsey• 18 years ago

You know how people have been talking the past couple months about how Alaska gets more federal money per capita than any other state? That's Stevens. What you call pork, locals call boosting the local economy.

It's the same reason why Congress is at a 12% approval rating yet most incumbents have no trouble keeping their seats. Everyone thinks their Representative and Senators are great, it's all the others that are crooks.

sh3l1• 18 years ago

You see, the legal system is just a series of tubes. It's not a big truck! If you put me into it I will just clog up the whole thing.

DarkShikari2• 18 years ago

Maybe soon he'll discover that a prison isn't a big building: it's a series of cubes.

jadence• 18 years ago

Did you come up w/ that joke on your own? I ask because it's awfully similar to a highly moderated comment left on /.

http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=1009471&cid=2553...

If you borrowed it from /., I would imagine that giving credit to the creator (who happens to be "Anonymous Coward" in this case) would be appropriate.

DarkShikari2• 18 years ago

I think I remember seeing it on Fark, and I wouldn't be surprised if that guy took it from Slashdot, who then probably took it from a blog somewhere...

Senator "series of tubes" Stevens convicted on 7 felony counts

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