You’ll never get Congress back with scumbags like this in your ranks
Alaska Sen Ted Stevens has been indicted for financial footsie with an oil company.
My next Republic column is on the role of substance and character in the maintaining of a healthy, robust society in which freedom, fairness, security, comfort and convenience - the stuff we take for granted - thrive. It requires the cultivation of an intricate body of virtues in each of us. Granted, there is no guarantee that a scumbag like Stevens won’t rise to a fairly high position of influence, but the thing for leaders of the party to which belongs to do is show him the door, pronto. That is, if they’re in it for the assurance of such a society. Now’s the time to say so, if that’s the case.
And the oil company did the principle of a properly functioning free market no favors, either.
