A Titan in Trouble

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  • Posted By: Nins @ 10/28/2008 2:07:14 PM

    Here's a video in which Obama discusses fiscal responsibility. Anyone who cares about the economy should see it.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d4a6RNhCUo

    On this web page, you can calculate the amount of your TAX RELIEF under Obama's plan (This tax calculator is for personal income, not for businesses. Remember that if you itemize, your tax cut will be higher than what the calculator shows. However, Obama's new 1040EZ allows people to get credit for some itemizations without having to fill out the long form and schedules.)

    http://taxcut.barackobama.com/

    You can get even more information on Obama's economic policies from the Blueprint for Change.

    http://www.barackobama.com/issues/

  • Posted By: rube @ 10/28/2008 1:56:03 PM

    A few days ago Palin said she would stand by Stevens.
    Today she has dumped him. Hey what are pals for?
    Ethics problems are the disfuntional mainstay of neocons such as Stevens and Palin!
    And Bush, Cheney, McCain and the dozens of GOPers that have been Indicted, thrown out office etc. etc.



  • Posted By: Anticrisis @ 10/28/2008 12:57:27 PM


    Another Republican Senator bites it over Corruption - Still stays in Senate, alongside the Footsie-Playing Republican Larry Craig. The quality of our government is astonishing.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/28/2008 1:03:04 PM

      As much as I love to slam the republicans, this isn't really a GOP thing, so much as it seems to be an Alaska thing.

      • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 10/28/2008 1:12:26 PM

        Then why does big business have such a sympatico relationship wit hte Republicans?

        Politicians, Democrat or Republican are open to gifts and sometimes bribes. The difference between the two is that Republicans have no problem with selling out the country in the process.

        • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/28/2008 1:18:22 PM

          Oh, I'm not saying that the GOP isn't corrupt...What I meant is that the BLATANT corruption, with no real effort to hide it, seems to be a level of arrogance only found in Alaska republicans and Chicago (all parties).

          • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 10/28/2008 1:27:59 PM

            You're howling at the moon Doc! Ted is just one of the more ignorant ones, using emails and cell phones. Without that evidence, he would have walked. Arrogance would be for one who wasn't afraid to be caught. This bird didn't expect to get nabbed.

            • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/28/2008 1:31:20 PM

              Arrogance is the guy who thinks he's above the law. That fits Stevens to a tee.

              • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 10/28/2008 1:35:58 PM

                Gotta go Doc, Pleasuse as always. Can't agree on the arrogance because his cell phone shows he was worried and covering up. I've seen him for several years on c-span and he had me eating out of his hand. He's one of the last ones I'd expect.

  • Posted By: TheVigil @ 10/28/2008 12:27:04 PM

    35 years seems a bit excessive for what he's accused of. That being said, it's very hard for me to be inclined to be charitable to Ted Stevens. He's been one of the most vicious and unkind opponents of environmental legislation that the Senate has ever seen. I won't be sorry to see him go if he loses.

    • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/28/2008 1:04:08 PM

      "35 years seems a bit excessive for what he's accused of. "

      Selling the public trust? I agree with the sentence.

      • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 10/28/2008 1:19:00 PM

        It could have been life! At least he'll get out before his 120th birthday. Seriously, Prison is no place for Ted, it would be a life sentence. They need to hit him with a sentence that forces him to tell the truth and implicate those other Alaskans that are on the take. Don't be shocked if it includes Palin. Her house deal tie to the Public Project is fishier than Baracks.

        • Posted By: Doc Howl @ 10/28/2008 1:27:56 PM

          Oh, I'd be open to giving him a little mercy if he squeals. Maybe a halfway house, or something.

          But there has to be punishment, anyway. This man sold his constituents for a home renovation. He has betrayed the public trust, and betrayed the republic.

  • Posted By: Thevail @ 10/28/2008 12:55:18 PM

    Oh wait....isn't he guilty of WEALTH Re-distribution...I mean..from others into his own pocket..just like MOST Republicans...

    Sara Palin did the same thing..

    • Posted By: Bass Pro @ 10/28/2008 1:20:59 PM

      I think this would come under the category of trickle down economics. Ted takes the bribe and his citizens get trickled on.

  • Posted By: tiredoflies @ 10/28/2008 12:50:15 PM

    Yet another GUILTY REPUBLICAN

    Time for a change?

  • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 10/28/2008 12:11:15 PM

    Live by the oil revenues, die by the oil revenues.

    Maybe Alaska needs some new industry - like growing democrats, for instance.

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