If only we could find a way to more fully manifest that spark without it having to be compelled by tragedy.
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"A sinister cabal of superior writers."
If only we could find a way to more fully manifest that spark without it having to be compelled by tragedy.
Scott Nance has covered government and Washington for more than a decade. He's the editor and publisher of the political blog, The Washington Current.
Article comments
1 - Dave Nalle
His colleagues may have good words for him, but I don't see any redemption or revisionism justified when we remember his record as a conservative in name only who never met a pork project he wouldn't screw the taxpayers to fund.
Dave
2 - Arch Conservative
He was kinda like the Ted Kennedy of the right, only he never killed a woman with his car while driving her home drunk from a party on Cape Cod.
3 - jeannie danna
RIP Senator's Stevens and Kennedy.
Bipartisanship is when peopleno matter what their personal politics are form human connections with one another.
"Walk a mile in your opponents shoes..."
4 - John Wilson
Ted Stevens was an opportunistic chauvinist who blackmailed everyone else in the senate into voting for his Alaska bound pork projects. Thus, Alaska was able to get $3 of federal money for every dollar they sent to Washington.
Good riddance.
5 - Clavos
"Walk a mile in your opponents shoes..."
Not when he's a crook, no thanks.
6 - roger nowosielski
Are you sailing, Clavos?
You said you were preparing for a trip.
7 - Les Slater
My interest here has been the accident itself. I used to fly in Alaska without instruments (VFR) and once lost vision by flying into a cloud. I was lucky to have survived that incident.
The Senator Stevens plane was being flown by a very experienced pilot and the plane itself had sufficient electronics designed to prevent what apparently happened. It has been reported that the cloud ceiling at the time was 600 feet. VFR means he was flying UNDER those clouds. That doesn't leave much room for error.
I will continue following the investigation closely.
8 - Baronius
To be fair, Stevens' conviction was vacated due to prosecutorial misconduct, including the failure to discose exculpatory evidence.
9 - John Wilson
Ted Stevens had disproportionate power because of the Senate and he used that power brutally to redistribute USA wealth to Alaska and himself.
10 - Baronius
John, I'm not proposing a shrine to him. It's just that I found Scott's tagline ("...who had been convicted on corruption charges only in 2008") misleading. Yes, he was convicted, but that conviction was thrown out. I don't think I would have trusted Stevens with lunch money, and I wouldn't consider him a conservative, but it seems wrong to label him "convicted".