White House may still take indicted Sen. Ted Stevens on Bush’s Alaska trip.
White House may still take indicted Sen. Ted Stevens on Bush’s Alaska trip.
On Tuesday, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) was indicted “on seven counts of failing to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in services from an oil services company that helped renovate his home.” During the White House press briefing today, a reporter asked Press Secretary Dana Perino if Stevens’ is still “invited” to travel with the President on his upcoming trip to Alaska. Perino replied that the invitation “did not change” with Stevens’ indictment:
Q It’s my understanding that Senator Stevens was invited to go along to Alaska on Monday night, and I wonder if that invitation still stands, or if he’s accepted it, if he’s planning to go?
MS. PERINO: I don’t know if he is going to be going on that trip, but protocol is that any member of a state is invited to travel with the President, and that did not change in his case.
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Will he be taking indicted Rep. Young along, too? Maybe they will have dinner with Stevens’ son, also indicted.
Would be quite an appropriate table of thugs and scumbags, indeed.
Alaska must be SOOOO Proud!
August 1st, 2008 at 4:12 pmHe’ll be right at home with all the other criminals on board AF1.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:12 pmCaption contest:
AGHGHGHG! Let go of my nuts!
August 1st, 2008 at 4:13 pmDana does have a point on this (albeit a small one) that it’s traditional to invite members of a state’s delegation when the President travels to that state.
If Bush was running for re-election, I wouldn’t be surprised if he attempted to distance himself as much as possible from Stevens. But since he’s not, and he knows he can do whatever he wants to without having to answer for it, he probably figures, “why not?”
August 1st, 2008 at 4:14 pmLa Cage aux Folles…Birds of a feather flock together.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:16 pmMS. PERINO: I don’t know if he is going to be going on that trip, but protocol is that any member of a state is invited to travel with the President, and that did not change in his case.
Mark Foley was NOT invited to travel with GW and Jeb on Florida trips. They knew Folwy was a problem and they didn’t want to be seen with him even BEFORE the sex scandal broke publically.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:17 pmSo again, she’s lying through her teeth.
The idicted and the yet to be indicted.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:17 pmThat’s odd… Bush has always demanded unswerving loyalty from others but never shown much himself…
…very odd…
August 1st, 2008 at 4:18 pmWhere is Jim Wilke to defend his great Alaska legislators? Aren’t you proud of these good ol’ boyz?
Heh heh
August 1st, 2008 at 4:23 pmWell, I’m sure that sooner or later, the WH is going to trot out the old line that “Stevens should be considered innocent until proven guilty.” Of course, if Stevens was a detainee down at GTMO tagged with the label “enemy combatant”, then he would be considered guilty and he wouldn’t get a trial.
And the Republican Party sees nothing contradictory about this.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:25 pmBush is being seen in public with Stevens much like the nominally attractive teen female will surround herself with Alpo-ites.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:29 pmCaption
“Pull my finger, heh, heh, heh.”
August 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pm“OMG! That was horrible!”
Chickenhawks of a feather stick together…
August 1st, 2008 at 4:33 pmthat pretty young thing seen with stevens on the news clips -
his wife???
…
no, i find out… thought i should look first and not be lazy…
this is the 3rd image on the googleimage search for “ted stevens, wife”: http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0dDd3VF8bug94/610x.jpg
taken at g.ford funeral… the wives of stevens and hastert are behind them … no comment…
but what the hell is cheeeney smiling about?
OT, but i had to share…
August 1st, 2008 at 4:42 pmFine, take him. Just don’t bring him back.
August 1st, 2008 at 4:58 pmFishing together !!
August 1st, 2008 at 5:11 pmYou think a little bribery will stop anything from happening?
Come on… your looking at the king of law breaking. Ted Stevens looks like a 12 year old stealing from Urban Outfitters compared to Bush
August 1st, 2008 at 5:14 pmAnd according to DailyKos, Alaska is also leaning again toward a Repubican. How stoopid are those citizens anyway? A Republican has raped the treasury and the state, but they want to put another one in office.
How cold is it up there, that they lose their wisdom?
August 1st, 2008 at 5:14 pmMay be Ted Stevens hope for a presidential pardon becomes reality.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:26 pmI do hope that Cheney rounds out the hunting threesome.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:28 pmDid Bush just confer a new nickname on the Senior Senator from Alaska.
“I changed your nickname from King Salmon to Duke Salmonella.”
August 1st, 2008 at 5:30 pmOf course Bush uses his brief moments of creativity to impact the lives of Americans. Consider his likely Executive Order:
“Just as the great Ronald Reagan changed ketchup to a vegetable, I, George W. Bush, proclaim salmonella a minature form of the healthy fish so many of us need in our diets.”
August 1st, 2008 at 5:33 pmGuess if Rove, Cheney and Jeff Gannon show up, they can play pirate games.
August 1st, 2008 at 5:33 pmCaption:
Did you know that most Democrats don’t even use their political office to make lots of money by taking bribes?
August 1st, 2008 at 5:43 pmStratrat says:
How cold is it up there, that they lose their wisdom?
Three words dude: Permanent brain freeze!
August 1st, 2008 at 5:53 pmCriminals like company.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:05 pmSo what Ted Stevens is indicted? Herr Bush is just going to pardon all these cheap crooks before he leaves office.
Should the Republican Party be outlawed as a criminal organization?
August 1st, 2008 at 6:14 pmWhy not? Bush and Stevens are both sewer rats. Bush making the White House as mucky as he can get it before he leaves office. We’ll see if there are consequences.
August 1st, 2008 at 6:31 pmBush, being a person who brazenly lied and lies about his religion and faith, lied repeatedly to take America to war, over lies (9/11, WMD, “terrorists” etc.) and snarfs, giggles and dances while the country collaspes and young Americans are needlessly slaughtered is proof he is utterly soulless and devoid of any speck of conscience. Why let overt mingling with felons bother him? Peas in a pod.
August 1st, 2008 at 7:00 pmRational people see Ted as a criminal, a boor, and a fool. In Reichworld, on the other hand, people like the chimp see nothing but “Senior GOP senator”.
Though I’m quite sure the chimp, himself, is very appreciative of all Ted has done for Alaskan oil concerns. Heck! silly George will probably give him a preemptive pardon “for his faithful service to the party”. He will be absolved by the masters of the Reich and no one on their side will even realize how disgraceful that really is.
August 1st, 2008 at 9:21 pmHe should go with the rest of the crooks.
Ted Stevens is from Arkansas? I thought he was from Alaska.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:39 amstevens will raise his roof each time he’s bought.
What a hack.
August 2nd, 2008 at 12:59 am“Do it to me one more time, Can’t get enough of a man like you…..” Georgie just can’t seem to keep his hands off other men. Ted looks surprised and delighted!
August 2nd, 2008 at 10:48 amPut ‘em both on The Crab Fishing Boat to Hell with dick cheney at the helm.
August 2nd, 2008 at 11:03 amThese criminals have no respect left for this country. Ultimately they feel proud because they have gotten away with crime. The idiot Bush has blatantly mocked this nation. Not only has he gotten away with crime, he rubs it on our faces everyday.
August 2nd, 2008 at 1:44 pm