The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Internal Revenue Service searched the Girdwood, Alaska home of Senator Ted Stevens on Monday. The Associated Press noted, "The Justice Department has been looking into the seven-term senator's relationship with a wealthy contractor as part of a public corruption investigation." Makes sense. Stevens blocked a bill seeking to disclose information on federal spending and contracts, a year after threatening to resign from the senate if congress blocked his infamous "bridge to nowhere"--a Golden Gate-sized bridge connecting an island of fifty to a mainland of a few thousand. How ironic it would be if a man who has done so much to increase the burdens of the IRS upon ordinary Americans feels the oppressive power of the tax collectors.

And we wonder why this country is up to its eyeballs in debt? Guys like this and their drunken sailor spending ways are killing us at home and abroad.

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