Stevens Mad! Stevens Smash!

This August recess couldn't end soon enough for Senator Stevens. This is from an interview with his local paper, the Anchorage Daily Star, the paper which has generally had the best coverage of Stevens' run-in with the FBI over hiring an oil company to remodel his house for pennies while they got favorable contracts from him at the same time:

Stevens: More people are repeating what you're writing in your paper than anything else in the country. This paper has caused me more difficulty, and I've told you that before, than anything else. You've created me as the senator-for-life. You've been hanging me weekly.

You read any paper, the information -- most of it is not true -- started right here. And your guys just yesterday, they taunt me. They taunt me with statements that really no respectable reporter would ask a senator. It was already said I'm not going to answer your questions. They say, don't you have any concerns for your own integrity? Don't you have any conscience? That's what your reporters do to me. ...

I've spent hours here with you here in the past, and I've never seen any result of it at all. ... This paper has done nothing but try to assassinate me.

This sounds like the old paranoid guy who eventually starts thinking that everyone is trying to kill him. Of course, he's not that stupid, because he and his fellow Alaska Congresscritters have been raiding the federal treasury for decades. Stevens is just pissed off that somebody figured the scheme out.