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- TED STEVENS IS FREE: Everyone’s favorite white-guilt-inducer, Attorney General Eric Holder, has decided to drop all charges against mean old Ted Stevens, because why not. The Justice Department prosecution team apparently didn’t present all the evidence it had, and it was mean to witnesses. They are all being investigated. ET CETERA. [NPR]
Next Barack Obama will pardon Scooter Libby.
April fool? What? No!?
…yeah, because they realized it was illegal to incarcerate a corpse!
I’m still waiting for him to release Han Solo!
The Justice Department is also, it turns out, a series of tubes.
He’ll be released from prison via a series of tubes. Not on a big truck.
McCain/Stevens 2012 !
it only makes sense.
The fix was in the whole time. Alberto Gonzales is a genius: fuck up the prosecution so flagrantly that the trial outcome will not stand an appeal.
Ted’s probably so rich from gummint pork that the cost of defending himself is trivial, or maybe Vesco’s picking it up.
We are a nation of cowards.
V572625694: Gonzales = Columbo
Wugou: Shit, I hope this is an April Fools joke. I was really looking forward to him spending his remaining days being introduced to a series of tubez(steaks)…
Well, of course, he’s free. Who’d pay good money for that crazy old coot?
Our man Holder did the right thing ’cause he believes in fairness and so forth, especially when it involves not having to remedy a fuck-up of the previous administration.
Tu-be or not tu-be. Is that the question? Oh, whatever.
What a Hobson’s choice made for the folks in Anchorage. On the one hand, they’re now stuck forever with Ted Stevens International Airport. On the other hand, they avoid having it renamed Tripp Palin-Johnston International Airport.
I was convinced that this was an April Fools’ joke, but everyone has picked it up. So it’s either the greatest joke ever or the saddest day ever.
Holder simply came to see the plain truth that we all have many things in our houses that do not belong to us.
Good. He can retire under that bridge to nowhere.
You’ve got to be joking!
This is completely unprofessional behavior on the part of AG Holder. If the Bush Justice Department didn’t let gross incompetence stop them from a successful prosecution it shouldn’t be a hurdle for Obama’s folks.
It’s too bad this interrupted his prison-yard workout routine; he was already up to benching 10 pounds for reps.
Typical. White man steals millions, he goes free.
OJ steals 20 Fleer baseball cards and an old jock strap, he gets 30 years in the pokey tryna preserve the sanctity of his butthole.
You people disgust me.
Mild Midwesterner: No! Columbo only gave the appearance of a bumbling fool. To fool his prey, as ’twere.
Everyone wanted Stevens out of the Senate, and he’s gone, yay! But the feds might want to think about prosecuting gangsters like Stevens when they’re younger than 85; DoJ pulls the same lame routine with ancient Mafiosi, in effect retiring them as a favor to the young Turks. Information suddenly becomes available when the Mob wants some coot out of the way, and the feds lap it up. Duh.
As toxic as I found Stevens, he still deserved Due Process, which contrary to conventional wisdom does not refer to Clarence Thomas’s haircut.
Thats it. Im a PUMA.
bricks: I with you. OJ got railroaded the second time because he should have been convicted the first time. I could list ten cases, but, for one, we have a state rep who got arrested for DUI, but since he’s a la-di-da, the mandatory driver’s license suspension was waived. If you get elected to any office, you can be pretty sure of never having to pay the price if you break the law.
WOW!
Who knew that Ted Stevens was a great American pioneer who invented the State of Alaska and never took a dime of bribe money from anyone?
(Cough cough bullshit cough)
What are they hiding?
Who does this theiving rat bastard have dirt on?
THATS why this is going away.
Watch for the same thing to happen when (if) Tom DeLay goes to trial.
Ted Stevens for President! … (we need an Alaskan to look into Russia for us, and who better!)…besides, he has all the furniture he needs for that big house…
A Justice department interested in justice?
Is this change that we can believe in?
Sadly, there is no asshole-exemption for due process, & Stevens’ conviction was indeed a standard Bush botch-job … now Obama should issue him a pardon - the nice guy’s way of saying yes, you’re guilty as sin & no, you can’t overturn it, ever.