Discover GOP Opprobrium

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It's really sort of uncanny how much muck there is to be raked on the Alaska congressional delegation. You'd sort of figure that might be the case with Young and Stevens, two old ships with plenty of time to collect barnacles. But even Lisa Murkowski, who's only a couple years into her first term too, though it seems she may have inherited some of her father's muck-ation.

Perhaps it's the old story of political systems built on economies with a heavy reliance on relatively primitive extractive industries -- a pattern that one sees again and again around the world.

Anyway, as Roll Call reports this morning, it seems that Sen. Stevens' (R-AK) troubles may extend well beyond corrupt oil services firm VECO and whatever that arrangement he had with their now-disgraced former CEO to renovate his house.

We have Young (R) and Stevens (R) both the subjects of on-going criminal investigations. Murkowski so far just has the embarrassing sweetheart land sale. But even there it seems there may be more to the story.