Odd Juxtaposition Here

October 28th, 2008

Was just over reading some Politico.com, and read the following:

Huddle 24/7 – Politico.com
SCOOP: Politico’s John Bresnahan says HARRY REID is quietly planning to ease ROBERT BYRD out of the chairmanship of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

“Reid has not yet discussed his plans with Byrd. But in a recent closed-door meeting with his advisers in Las Vegas and a private conversation with Sen. Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Reid has laid out a scenario that would have Inouye — the committee’s second-ranking Democrat — taking over Byrd’s chairmanship by the time the 111th Congress convenes in January.

Later in the same piece, the author discussed Ted Stevens, just convicted on seven felony counts of violating federal ethics laws. That’s where he’s done things wrong ‘n stuff. And lied about it. You know, unethically. Some of it to do with money, and how he let people give him lots of free shit and then made legislation that favored them. That’s bad. So then I read this:

Democrat DANIEL INOUYE — a Stevens friend who testified at his trial — said he hopes “the people of Alaska continue to believe in Ted Stevens, to remember his contributions and to look upon him as friend.”

So… we want a “friend” of Ted Stevens, someone who still thinks well of him and testified for him at his trial… (even though Steven’s is well know to be both the king of earmarks and a corrupt Intertube-ignorant-bastard) to chair the Senate Appropriations Committee? Where they… hand out the money? A position presumably ripe for corruption? Surely there must be some other/better choice here?