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A ballsy Wonkette hero operative sends us a fantastic photo with this description: “I got convicted Senator Ted Stevens to sign this ‘I am VECO’ hat with a silver sharpie on election night 2008.” No, it’s not just funny because she fooled Stevens into believing that she was a supporter. Veco, for you hippie anti-corporates, was the corrupt company that bribed Ted Stevens with hundreds of thousands of dollars in gifts and money, which he forgot to report! This led to his criminal conviction on seven counts, which was followed immediately by his reelection to the United States Senate.
Where’s the picture of Liz Glover with the Honorable Senator Stevens?
This makes my life even happier…
This makes my life so very happy…
Whatever helps Ted with the appeal is good for all of us. Every one.
Epic win!
He is VECO — but Mrs. Stevens forgot to tell him.
That’s nothing. On Election Night, I got Sarah Palin to sign a copy of every Supreme Court decision she could name.
I wonder what a good bribe is these days in Alaska. I had an old buddy who was offered $350.000 to not notice oil dribbling on the snow from the pipeline back in the seventies when he was a geologist working for Exxon. He’s my one friend with a whistle blowing citation on his wall signed by Jimmy Carter. I saw it on his wall once about ten years ago so I know it’s real. Some people you can’t bribe. Still, I wonder what the going rate is now for looking the other way in Alaska considering inflation and all.
Is it a cool million, or is it more?
Presumably a senator gets more than a peon infiltrator from Nader’s Raiders back when Ralph still had some spring in his step. That was my friend’s trip. He started in the PIRGs and then someone thought maybe that geology degree could be worth something, and they put him to work getting a job on the pipeline. He sort of liked working on the rigs. He said it was a perfect job for a hippy. All day long you “put together joints and trip in and trip out.”
He was an exception. For every whistle blower you figure there have to be five lucky guys without any integrity taking tropical vacations.
This is an awesome thing.
And speaking of awesome, these new GOP elephant logo designs by Thomas Fuchs that I found which represent today’s GOP party of failure are just fantastic.
http://www.thomasfuchs.com/site/digital/Digitalpage001.html
Chief Grinning Eagle: I don’t normally get to see things put into that perspective. It’s usually shouting and fist-shaking, and the real situations get obscured. Interesting. Thanks!
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That required more foresight than I am capable of demonstrating.
That’s so mean. A senator is not a big truck that you just dump your ironic hat on.
No, he is a series of tubes through which you dump your ironic hat. Sometimes he gets clogged.
For this, the ballsy Wonkette hero operative receives 5 complimentary blow js and 7 whore diamonds.
Did the signee hide the cap logo, only presenting the bill for Senator Tubes to place his J. Hancock upon?
Inquiring minds want to know!
Great penmanship! See, nobody’s all bad.
$500 Racist California Obama Bucks food stamp dollars to the first person to get Stevens to autograph some sort of tube or tube-like item.
Gotta few license plates for him to sign after he gets adjusted in his new home.
He’s 85 years old, he didn’t even look. I too was amazed at his penmanship, he was very deliberate; like he was signing one of those laws that he doesn’t think apply to him. The story is on Jenny’s myspace page.
Bush is laying out a plan to help me hit the ground running.
He will graciously remain close in an advisory position, for Two years.
NO, I AM VECO!
Fucking awesome.
Love old crazy corrupt coots with no awareness.
Today, we are all Veco!
Ballsy Wonkette hero operative, I want to bear your children. That is, I would if I was a girl and you were a guy. But you know what I mean.
On the other hand, making Stevens look foolish is not exactly a Herculean task.
So that’s what an asshat looks like
shanemcgowan: WIN!
hahahahaha This is fantastic. Good work!
sonofabitch I thought I was veco, crap now i gotta redo my resume
I’m surprised he didn’t brand the hat with a backwards “S”.
He can’t repudiate Veco! Or they’ll repossess his fish sculpture thing and one story of his house! While he’s in it!
That is what corruption is.
maybe someone could get him to sign this “The Tubes” t-shirt.
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/dt/the-tubes-mens-retro-t-shirt/CPA781231-MR.html
Wonkette laughs while Alaska ponders whom we might send to Washington, since it’s appearing the the GOP is going to be humorless about the irony of Stevens serving while he serves, so to speak.
Hmmmm. Just which conservative Alaskan politician has proven herself superfluous in-state? Whose charming shenanigans and vast reservoir of world knowledge would keep the rest of the country in bemused chuckles for years? Who might need an excuse to keep all those nice new clothes? Who upheld the tradition of public airing of murky ethics questions? Whom might we NOT want back?
Still laughing, are we, DC? Stay tuned for the Don Young indictment, and consider the possibility that Alaska’s newest, cutest, feisty little senator might get lonely in Washington if her handsome hubby isn’t along for the ride. Ask yourself: if not now, when? If not Todd, whom?
How’s this for a hat slogan? Alaska: what did we ever do to you?
You are all like the buzzing of flies to Veco!
Huge coin on eBay!