Arctic cold shoulder:
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-AK) says he has “written off” Senate friends who spoke out against drilling in the Arctic wildlife refuge last month. “I’m not traveling with them anymore, and I’m not going to play tennis or swim or do various things with them.”
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Ted Stevens is an eco-terrorist.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:21 amWhiny little titty baby, he is.
STEVENS: Some day I’ll be President! Then you’ll all be sorry!
OTHER SENATORS: I’ll say we will!
STEVENS: Somehow, that didn’t come out right….
(Gag stolen from Charles Schulz, but it fits.)
January 10th, 2006 at 9:21 am“Since you won’t pass my legislation, I won’t talk or travel with you!”
Do you promise? No, really?!? I want it in writing that you will no longer talk to me! ;-)
January 10th, 2006 at 9:24 amSenate ‘friends’??? I thought these people were supposed to be at work in the Senate.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:26 amOh, boo-frickin’-hoo, you mindless twit.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:26 amIt would be instructive to find out WHY he’s so interested in drilling.
I doubt it’s because he’s really interested in the welfare of America — we’ve seen he doesn’t give a shit about the rest of the country.
Follow the money.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:26 amI’ll take my water-wings and go home, that’s how mad I am….I’ll show ‘em.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:28 amI’m not going to swim with them anymore. How creepy.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:30 amI’m going to take my ball and go home, boo, hoo, hoo. OMG what a fricking baby.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:31 ambetter call a waaaaambulance for old Ted
January 10th, 2006 at 9:31 am#8–Picture Stevens in a Speedo
January 10th, 2006 at 9:31 am#8–Picture Stevens in a Speedo
Comment by Punchy — January 10, 2006 @ 9:31 am
Eww, thanks for that image, Punchy. You know, that may arguably be worse than anything any troll has posted here. Now I’m going to have nightmares. :)
P.S. But it was funny. :)
January 10th, 2006 at 9:34 amBehold the level of reasoned deliberation that obtains in the United States Senate today. Jefferson, Franklin et al must be spinning.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:35 amNext time I’m around these traitors I’m goin’ to uncork my colostomy bag.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:44 amA Model A made 32 miles per gallon. A 1956 Ford Crown Victoria made 30 miles per gallon.
Philips Conoco has a beautiful corporate headquarters in Anchorage. They wouldn’t build if there wasn’t plenty of oil in Alaska. Alaska has oil coming out of its ears.
Its all smoke and mirrors. Alaska has wilderness everywhere. I doubt very much if the ANWR will be threatened by a few holes dug into it.
Let’s give Manhattan back to the Manhattan tribe. Let’s restore Manhattan to its original landscape; everybody will cry a river then.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:46 am#13 Of course they are spinning in their graves, just look at how the Repubes have been working to destroy everything the Founding Fathers set up. Wouldn’t it piss you off too?
January 10th, 2006 at 9:47 amJust for that, I’m going to club an extra baby fur seal for each one of my so called friends.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:50 amTed Stevens, the GOP’s answer to Terrell Owens.
January 10th, 2006 at 9:55 amSounds like he’s in a retirement home, where he gets to swim and play tennis, shuffleboard, or whatever, not the damn US Congress. Between destroying the environment and working on his serve, it’s amazing he has time for ‘friends’.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:02 amThis is the stuff that goes on in the Congress? How…What…Who….ahhh!!
January 10th, 2006 at 10:03 amNo more peeks at my tired,old,wrinkled,dried-up,withered body for you!
January 10th, 2006 at 10:07 amin other words, he’s taking his sled and going home…
January 10th, 2006 at 10:09 amAh, go home and watch your “Planet of the Apes” DVD.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:15 amPetulant little twerp. Not only is he an enemy of the environment, he is a hog at the trough of pork spending, and btw, if he isolates himself, it will be a good thing for the senate; what are those “activities” he won’t indulge in with his fellow senators any more?
January 10th, 2006 at 10:26 amArnold sez hes a Gurlie Man.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:30 amBooo f**king Hoo. Yea you too Ron. It’s all of our land (Federal Land), not just yours, Alaska’s or the Oil & Mineral Extraction Companies.
You can give up yours, but you don’t have a say as to mine. I’m telling them to keep it.
Illegalize Hummers (not the Clinton variety, the GM kind). That’ll save us more gas than any drilling will get.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:32 amFor HEAVENS SAKE! He acts like he’s a two year old having a tantrum. Take your toys and go play elsewhere!
January 10th, 2006 at 10:32 amStevens, who’s 82 years old and been in the Senate for 36 years, doesn’t like sharing his marbles.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:38 amHey Ron we only have one livable, drinkable planet that we know of. Why are you in such a hurry to destroy her? Where is our Manhattan project for new sources of energy. We must ween ourselves from fossil fuel addiction
January 10th, 2006 at 10:49 am#15,
Yes I remember when I was a kid in the early 70’s, the Volkswagon Rabbit got 50 miles per gallon. What happened? I bet I can guess.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:53 amSomeone wrote that Ron planned on getting the drilling through, and then suing under Alaska state law to take all of it for his own state. Also this has been his pet project for longer than I have probably been alive, which likely helps him get voted back in each time.
January 10th, 2006 at 10:58 amboo hoo
January 10th, 2006 at 11:00 ammore profits, more oil, more backdoor favors, more corporate control of congress, just keep voting GOP…. they want more and will take it! alito in the supreme court puts the neocons in control of all three powers. guess whos gonna get more? guess ol’ ted doesn’t like that he’s not on the more list! WWWWWAAAAAHHHH!
January 10th, 2006 at 11:06 amAfter observing Mr. Stevens over the last few months two words come to mind - “Competency Hearing”
January 10th, 2006 at 11:07 am#29 - He’s got marbles?
January 10th, 2006 at 11:07 amNo swimming or tennis, but how about a little golf in Scotland?
January 10th, 2006 at 11:08 am#31. “Where is our Manhattan project for new sources of energy.”
Bingo.
If we don’t do it, someone else will. Do we really want the Chinese, say, to develop a new efficient source of energy? Or us?
It’s a national security issue.
January 10th, 2006 at 11:25 amThe Manhattan Project for New Energy. Yes, we’ve been beating that drum, and Republicans just won’t pull their fingers out of their ears.
Seriously, there are only a few options long term:
1) We pursue the MPfNE and have energy indefinitely
January 10th, 2006 at 11:38 am2) Another nation (or Union of nations) does it and we buy it from them
3) Nobody does it, and we go back to an agrarian society in 100 years. Permanently. Research requires energy. No energy, no energy experiments. History will record us as the world’s biggest a-holes.
The estimated $2 trillion spent on the Iraq war could have been spent on alternative energy investment, creating jobs and a new industry sector.
January 10th, 2006 at 11:52 amOil consumption has given us a darn good way of life, hands down. To top it all off, emissions trading is a going concern.
Ted Stevens is being left out in the cold.
If you had a million dollars, you could give every Chinese person a tenth of a cent. Money doesn’t really do or buy anything anymore. Cash doesn’t count at all. It is more or less worthless.
Wealth is applied knowledge. The Republicans are the poorest lot of the human race, if you really think about it.
January 10th, 2006 at 11:53 amHis “friends” must be crushed.
January 10th, 2006 at 12:07 pmHe had friends?
Who would hang out with Ted Stevens? Grampa from the Munsters?
January 10th, 2006 at 12:30 pm#43 Don’t forget Fester from the Addams. Maybe he need a bath, too.
January 10th, 2006 at 12:46 pmThe nerve of this corrupt sombich…
He should be cleaning fish on a trawler for a living, but the dumb a*s Alaskans keep voting him into office…
Sheesh, America!
January 10th, 2006 at 1:01 pmDidn’t Stevens effectively say he was going to quit after the pissy-fit he threw when the pork-filled defense bill went down?
this dude is too high up the order of succession for comfort. [shudder].
January 10th, 2006 at 2:33 pmIf an idiot throws a fit on the Senate floor, and nobody cares, does he still look stupid? Oh my my, Oh HELL yes!
January 10th, 2006 at 5:15 pmIt’s the “I’m not going to…swim or do various things with them” that makes me shudder.
January 10th, 2006 at 11:44 pmI have to think the voters of Alaska have to be gettin a little tired of Ted’s whining.