U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens was indicted this morning by a federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., on seven counts of filing false financial disclosures.
With the felony indictment, Stevens, an icon in Alaska politics, becomes by far the most powerful politician charged in a broad investigation into corruption of Alaska public officials that began more than four years ago and that has so far led to convictions of three state legislators and charges against two others.
That the poster boy for how the Republican Party lost its way, the man who tried to bring you the "bridge to nowhere," the champion of earmark spending, that this man is corrupt comes as no surprise whatsoever.
Stevens, 84, epitomizes all that has gone wrong with Republican senators in the last eight years. For years, Stevens has legally defrauded the taxpayers of the United States. Now it appears as if he has done it illegally as well. Hopefully, he will be forced to resign shortly. Good riddance, scumbag.
UPDATE: This brings up a post I had on a poll John Hawkins of Right Wing News took of right-of-center bloggers asking for our lists of the 10 best and worst elected Republicans. Ted Stevens was the sixth-worst on my list and overall. I imagine he would be a little higher after this.
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