Oh, Ted Stevens

From the Boston Herald:

Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), who was indicted last month on charges he failed to disclose some $250,000 in gifts and home repairs from a local oil services company, has asked the Senate Ethics Committee to allow him to set up a legal defense fund.

Under Senate rules - if the Ethics Committee gives its OK - individuals and political action committees can contribute up to $10,000 to the defense fund. And given that Alaska’s own king of pork has done a lot of favors for a lot of folks over the years, he might reasonably expect those checks to come flowing in.

The fact that that’s what got him into trouble in the first place seems not to bother him at all.

He used to seem so cute...