TPM:
The state of Alaska is providing with one of those great entertaining moments from a mostly one-party state: When members of the same party, in this case the Republicans, start openly ripping each other apart.
Congressman Don Young has broken from the calls by Sarah Palin and the Alaska Republican Party, who say that Democratic Sen. Mark Begich should resign because he was only elected through the botched prosecution against Sen. Ted Stevens. After Stevens was convicted of several felony counts, Begich went on to narrowly win the election -- but now the Justice Department has dropped all the charges in light of prosecutorial misconduct. Young doesn't like the result, but it is what it is.
Young is going a bit further, however, and making a suggestion for another way that Ted Stevens could make a political comeback: Running for governor in 2010. This would presumably involve Stevens running against Sarah Palin, a giant of her state's politics. Now why would Young suggest such a thing?
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3 comments:
Republicans talk a good game about Loyality but their best at back stabbing ask Bush. Now Sarah is in so much trouble she would lose the election anyway. Uncle Ted and get Karl Rove to fix the election for him. Yes Govenor Stevens can get back to stealing taxpayers money this time from the Alaskan people. Sarah made a good run at it but sex wasn't enough. This show should be better then SNL.
charges dropped and guilt are two different things.
Wow, I was blown away on this one, but then again Ed Vrydoyak in Chicago plead guilty and got off with a small fine, and he is free as a bird, this was in the last couple of months, so I, well, can't say this is the worst of the offenders in recent past that got off, but just another ....well, I am speechless and in surprise on this one and the Ed one.
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