Posted on 11/05/2008 10:00:35 PM PST by Clintonfatigued
We have a fascinating situation in Alaska. Convicted felon Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is clinging to a 2 point lead over his Democratic challenger, Mark Begich.
If this lead holds and Stevens, 84, wins reelection, his race will be the biggest shocker of Election Day. And he'll hold a place in history as the first convicted felon ever reelected to the Senate.
As the Anchorage Daily News reports, the race may not be decided for two weeks given the roughly 40,000 absentee ballots left to be counted, plus "9,000 uncounted early votes and thousands of questioned ballots."
If Stevens does beat the odds and wins his surreal reelection battle, he won't be welcome back in the Senate, where Democrats gained at least five more seats last night with the counting still going strong in yet undecided races.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said this week that even if Stevens wins his race, he shouldn't expect to keep his job on Capitol Hill. "The reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate," Reid said. "And as precedent shows us, Senator Stevens will face an ethics committee investigation and expulsion, regardless of his appeals process."
And what might happen if his colleagues do kick Stevens out of the Senate, prompting a special election? Who might be in line to replace him? Hint: lipstick; $150,000 wardrobe. Yep, you betcha! Sarah Palin.
And although Palin would likely face a legal challenge if she tried to appoint herself or a temporary replacement (a law passed by the Alaska Legislature after Lisa Murkowski's appointment to the Senate by her father, former Gov. Frank Murkowski, requires a special election to fill any Senate vacancies) she would certainly be the frontrunner in any race to replace Stevens.
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On occasion. ;)
It’s not the words I am not familiar with, it is the sentence structure that causes some confusion.
Ah. [::shrugs::] Can't help you there, I'm afraid. It's both straightforward and grammatical.
My advice: let it go, then. Neither one of us will be losing a wink of sleep over the matter, five years from now. ;)
Full salary retirement for life after serving one term.
How nice that I can be part of your occasion. :)
Sorry to hear you are trapped in liberal Seattle. Must be a curse of some sort. At least on occasion, right? :)
Ah. Then it's not "sentence structure," after all, but rather (as I'd initially surmised) a simple matter of nomenclature. ;)
RINOs, patently, would be "the pests in the room," given the context of the line to which I was responding. ("I don’t think Governor Palin would tell “rinos” they don’t matter.")
No, no... put away your wallet, please, I beg you. The unalloyed joy I experience in aiding others is more than ample enough reward. ;)
Impressive. You know big words.
“No, no... put away your wallet, please, I beg you.”
And here I was ready to give you my two cents. You really shouldn’t beg, it negates the impression you give of being proud and vain. ;)
All we need is that crap starting back up again.
Oh, now. Don't sulk, for pity's sake. How could I possibly know, beforehand, which words you might find dauntingly "big" or otherwise? (Nothing I've used here, thus far, seems terribly "big" to me... but: mileage varies, doubtless.)
it negates the impression you give of being proud and vain. ;)
Your impressions, whatever they might be, are (blessedly) your own load to struggle under, and not my own. And the obverse applies as well, of course. ;)
My dear boy, I never sulk. Not even for “pity’s sake”. LOL
Your words weren’t too big for me, but I just had that feeling that they seemed impressive to you.
My impressions of you hardly classify as a “load” that I must “struggle under”. I’ve carried loads far heavier than the load of crap you’re spewing so eloquently.
This has been fun, KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle. I needed a laugh break and you fulfilled that need. :)
Again: neither my problem, nor my concern, tra-la, tra-la. ;)
I’ve carried loads far heavier than the load of crap you’re spewing so eloquently.
Oh, no. No "sulking" here, I daresay. ;) And now we've both managed to make the other point and giggle. Some evening, huh...?
The 'reality' should extend to you too. Reid, you're an un-convicted felon.
Now, the House of Representatives, on the other hand...
RATS are safe there because they make sure none of their crooks are ever prosecuted. They protect them.
as Beck explained, it was about the seat, not about the individual. The timing of the conviction was such that there could be no R sub, so what are you going to do as a voter, let the Democrats inch one vote closer to 60?
Thanks for the heads up. I remain unimpressed by her.
leave it to beck to spin leaving a convicted felon in office as a good thing.
he won’t be left in office, he’ll be replaced by a Republican. Didn’t bother with the article , did you?
“The reality is that a convicted felon is not going to be able to serve in the United States Senate,” Reid said. “And as precedent shows us, Senator Stevens will face an ethics committee investigation and expulsion, regardless of his appeals process.”
NEWS FLASH REID! THE SENATE IS FULL OF FELONS, INCLUDING YOURSELF MR. SHADY LAND-DEAL! MOST OF THEM INCLUDING YOURSELF HAVE JUST NOT BEEN CONVICTED YET!
Thanks for the heads up.
This is like watching one of those old Perry Mason episodes, where the witness on the stand suddenly breaks down and confesses to being the actual murderer. ;)
The question is whether she would help her self more for a 2012 bid by staying Governor or being in the Senate.
Probably the Senate to gain exp. on national issues. She’d have the exactly same exp. as OBAMA.
Governor Palin should stay in Alaska, tend to its business, and work with other GOP Governors to re-introduce conservative ideas at the state-level.
Governor Palin needs to remain an outsider from the up-coming Washington messes.
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