Ted Stevens’ Indictment Welcome Purgative for the Body Politic.
Sorry to be graphic but the indictment of Alaska Republican Senator Ted Stevens by a federal grand jury is necessary medicine to provide a much needed purgative to the infected body politic. Let them now turn the spigot and proceed with the full flushing. The purification will recompense partly for far more than the making of alleged false statements to conceal gifts and home renovations.
Such physic would blast out the moral debris accumulated long ago, by his arrogant defense of the status quo when the late Henry J. Hyde brought charges of Bill Clinton impeachment to the Senate. Meeting with hollow man Republican “leader” Trent Lott and others, Stevens told Hyde and House Judiciary chief counsel David Schippers:
“I don’t care if you prove that [Clinton] raped a woman and then stood up and shot her dead-you are not going to get sixty-seven votes.”
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