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RE: Stevens Indicted
Stevens' indictment isn't exactly good news for the G.O.P., but he's a corrupt politician first and a Republican second. Patrick Ruffini notes that the right thing to do to safeguard the tarnished Republican brand is to demand he abandon his reelection campaign. Once that's done, if anyone dares to use Stevens as an example of how the Republicans are uniquely corrupt, you can remind them that ...
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Keep Dreaming, Hemingway.
INSTAPUTZ — Sissy Mark Hemingway says Stevens' indictment isn't exactly good news for the G.O.P., but he's a corrupt politician first and a Republican second. For his next trick, Hemingway will persuade us that Yao Ming's success has nothing to do with his height and that K-Lo's editrixship is owed purely to her keen grasp of the English language and not, say, to her reprehensible politics.

No More Mister Nice Blog — ... '06 is that the GOP lost Congress because of corruption (plus Mark Foley), not because of Iraq or health care or the economy or Katrina; this is one talking point on which McCain didn't have to do a flip-flop to get in sync with his party's conventional wisdom. Prominent righty bloggers disowned Stevens a long time ago -- all right, all right, they threw him under the bus -- and a lot of them seem either somewhat pleased or even excited at the opportunity. Somewhat pleased: Stevens' indictment isn't exactly good news for the G.O.P., but he's a ...

Daily Blog Buzz: Senator Stevens Indicted
Weekly Standard Blog — ... The Corner's Mark Hemingway remarks, "Stevens' indictment isn't exactly good news for the G.O.P., but he's a corrupt politician first and a Republican second." Most Republicans will be rooting for him to resign or at least drop out of his re-election race, ASAP. As Michelle Malkin ...

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Stevens joins other indicted lawmakersPOLITICO.com: Congress
Eight other members of Congress -- remember DeLay, Craig? -- have been charged with crimes since 2000.