One-Quarter

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) has FINALLY sucumbed to the heard of the masses and has been bounced from his long tenure in the US Senate in giving his last speech ever on the Senate floor.

It certainly took long enough for this man, this jackass, to be ousted, but something made me a stir in the belly when I read this account from the AP NewsService about Stevens' last speech on the floor:

"...perhaps a quarter of the chamber's 100 members gathered to hear him and the gallery filled with his friends and family."

A quarter? Seriously?!?! This is a problem. Who were these quarter consisting of? I want names because they deserve to be ass-kicked out of the Senate with him.

This low-life Senator who has bilked MILLION of greenbacks over a generation for Alaska (not to mention himself) via earmarks, secret deals, etc...shouldn't be applauded by anyone.

He is not a likable figure on ANY level here.

Blech.

If I had to choose between preferring the Senate or the House, I'd prefer the Senate 7 days a week over the House and twice on Sunday's.

The U.S. House is too partisan to get anything serious done, and most of the consensus building is done in the U.S. Senate, which is why long-term Senators have a hell of a time running and winning the White House. Too many votes that are seemingly contradictory on their face, when in face it's consensus building.

But, this consensus building has it's drawbacks as well. Sen. Stevens is one example of those, and so is what happened with Sen. Lieberfuck. They all work together more often, so they actually tend to like each other more, thus Lieberfuck gets what is tantamount to a "pass" on his nasty, hateful rhetoric against Obama during the election cycle.

Almost like the Supreme Court. Scalia and Ginsburg could be chummy despite their radically divergent views because the very nature of the job insists they must collaborate and get along and, thus, come to respect and understand each others viewpoint (in theory).

But, to stand and applaud a total fraud like Stevens is awful and pathetic. Hope there were no Democrats in that quarter.