Senator Stevens throws a fit over ANWR loss

[montana500]

from crooksandliars.com

http://movies.crooksandliars.com/MSNBC-Ted-Stevens-crying.wmv

hahaha

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. He Really Needs to Retire

[Cleetus]

10. popcorn, anyone?

Stevens was a bit self-rightous, wasn't he?. What a fucking putz.

[emald]

2. he should have been gone ten years ago

but there are some sentimental types here in AK who think that pork equals good senator. Greedy GOP types. He is an embarassment, with his "hulk" tie and stuttering incomprehensible diction. I doubt he will be back again after 2008 but you never know. Some alaskans may just want a comatose wax figure in office.

[zanne]

4. It's sad to watch an elderly man have a temper tantrum.

That tirade was exactly that--a temper tantrum. He's obviously disturbed.

[ashling]

7. Did he threaten to resign again?

I missed it ... "I'll take my ball and go home! ... what do you mean its not my ball?!... waaaaaaaaaa!"

[Tom Joad]

3. I remember another Senator from Alaska crying. He was reading

the Pentagon papers, the history of the Vietnam war. that was really something to cry about.

What happened to Alaska?

[AX10]

5. He really should retire.

[Lerkfish]

6. that wasn't as over the top as I thought it'd be, considering the "NO!"

clip I'd seen before.

[dapper]

8. I emailed him

and asked him how long that oil would last? a year? Where would that high sulfer content oil be refined?

No reply yet...

Dap

[no_hypocrisy]

9. The protocols of civility demand a reasoned expression of disappointment.

Anything more is unseemly.

[maxsolomon]

11. His defenders are all over the Sea Times' LTTEs

Here, have a laugh:

<The barren or the peer

For 36 years, Sen. Ted Stevens has balanced Alaska's interests against those who want to turn the whole state into a national park, and the equally large group that wants to rape and pillage our resources without benefit to the residents of Alaska.

We live on the less than 3 percent of the state that is in private ownership and Sen. Stevens is our hero.

Congress has broken every agreement it has made with the state of Alaska since statehood — whether on land transfers, revenue shares from the potential development of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge — the list goes on and on.

And the media: They go for the easy political sound-bite solution and labels Stevens' projects pork. In a land where the federal government dominates our resources, these are ludicrous labels. Alaska is 50 years behind the rest of the country in roads, aviation and every other category of federally regulated activity. Complying with federal regulations makes the cost of our infrastructure obscenely expensive when standards developed for an Eastern megalopolis are applied to primitive rural Alaska.

Sen. Stevens has fought the good fight for a long time and we pray he will continue for another 20 years.

We Alaskans look for the time when Washington will once again elect senators with the intelligence, balance and sense of fairness that Stevens has displayed throughout his 36 years in the Senate.

— Frank McQueary, 53-year resident of Alaska, Anchorage>

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2002699878_frilets23.html