The Beltway Boys — Republicans Move Quickly on the Larry Craig Scandal

FOX News | September 4, 2007

Yes. Republicans acted swiftly in this [Craig] case. This sort of cleans up their Mark Foley scandal of 2006. But what about financial corruption, you know? That’s what got them into trouble big time in the 2006 election, and here you have Senator Ted Stevens, a powerful former chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, his house in Alaska was raided in connection with a corruption investigation. If he were a House member, a Democrat or a Republican, he would be forced to step down from his perch now as the ranking Republican on the Senate Commerce Committee, but he’s still there. What are they goes to do — what are they going to do about him?

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