Ted Stevens is going down

Among Western Senators, Larry Craig, Conrad Burns, and Ted Stevens have been some of the worst for American public lands. I stayed up late last election night to watch my old arch-enemy "Comrade" Burns lose his seat in Montana, and I toasted his loss with gusto.

When Larry Craig's sad psychic struggle finally became impossible for the Republic Party to ignore, I felt bad for the situation but I cheered--oh how I cheered!-- that he would be leaving the Senate. Like Burns, Craig had been around a long, long time and he was an extremely powerful man, weilding a power that he did not deserve as a Senator from such a small state.

Now it looks like Alaska's Ted Stevens, who may be worse than anyone, may soon be joining them. Only possibly, he will be in a federal prison.

--Zadig