October 27, 2008 4:11 PM

Hooray for the conviction of Sen. Stevens

Sarah Palin says it is a sad day, but I think the quick jury conviction of Mr. Stevens is cause for celebration - the sad day(s) are the ones where he took bribes from oil field service companies in the form of unreported expenses for doubling the size of his home in the ski resort town of Girdwood (I had the great pleasure of viewing the home on a family vacation). Mr. Stevens is only the fifth sitting senator to be convicted. I must admit to being worried about the prosecution, which mishandled evidence and withheld evidence from the defense in such an obvious manner that the judge was outraged - I feared that the Justice Department was throwing the case. Clearly the jury could not ignore the tape recording revealing that the senator thought that even if he was caught, it would not be like Iraq where death might happen.