Ted Stevens

PASADENA -- Republican Andy Harris is sticking by his latest attacks against Democrat Frank Kratovil's ethics as a state prosecutor, claiming he's the one being attacked.

"There have been attacks going against me for the last seven weeks and now everyone's just concentrating on these quote, 'latest attacks'," Harris told PolitickerMD.com at the GOP phone banking headquarters in Pasadena. "I actually haven't done attacks you see they have $2 million attacking me over the past seven weeks all of them aggressive."

How can a governor say she “championed” earmark “reforms” when she just boasted about requesting 85 separate federal earmarks during her two years in office?

Apparently, Gov. Sarah Palin is like many other Republicans who feel the need to make false claims about their past. John McCain still claims to be a maverick. He was, once. But, that was before he reversed himself on taxes, torture and more to win a GOP nomination.

Now that they’ve lost power congressional Republicans now claim they’ve always hated earmarks. Yet, before they lost control of Congress their annual $20 billion plus pork bills used to make even George Bush blush and that’s not easy to do.

I am not saying Roscoe Bartlett is just like Alaska’s Republican Senator Ted Stevens. No way.

You know Ted Stevens. He was just indicted for failure to file accurate and proper financial disclosure forms – those being the legal papers that would tell anyone who would like to know where our congressional “leaders” get and keep their wealth, among other things.

After all, Ted Stevens is alleged to have engaged in some interesting financial hanky-panky with an oil services company and some expensive home repairs on a still ratty looking A-frame he calls a residence somewhere south of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. (It is, however, somewhat closer to Ted’s infamous “Bridge to Nowhere” pork-barrel project.)

Roscoe’s pickle is nothing like that. Ted Stevens is innocent until proven guilty and so is Roscoe, who is apparently so innocent he has a multitude of reasons why he filed multiple false financial disclosure forms for about 5 years. The same things just keep happening over and over. And over and over.

More PolitickerMD.com coverage: Dougherty to Bartlett: ‘It’s time to step forward and clear this up’

It didn't even register last week, but this could actually be something. And if Roscoe Bartlett keeps stonewalling, people will keep digging and finding other embarrassing statements by the octogenarian House member.