Stevens: 'This is the saddest day of my life'
Would you like some cheese with that whine, Teddy?
'Sen. Ted Stevens couldn't be seen for several hours Wednesday afternoon, but he could be felt.
For about nine hours, other senators wandered on and off the Senate floor while chatting with colleagues and trying to find a way to thaw the freeze that settled in after Stevens lost a vote on Alaska oil drilling.
Stevens did not appear until late in the evening, though. He had lost the vote, but the question remained for all those hours--what would he do, concede or fight?
His junior colleague from Alaska, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, estimated that she and Stevens spent about three hours mulling the question after the noon vote failed to cut off a Democratic filibuster. In the meantime, Stevens stayed off the floor.
"He had to breathe," Murkowski said'.
Poor Teddy, if you wanted it so bad, you and the other Republicans should have
compromised.
You shouldn't have tried to ram it through on the defense bill, Teddy. And you Republicans it seems are going to have to start giving a little tit for tat to get your way for awhile. Well, let's hope so anyway.
And as it's been mentioned here before; ANWR is a bunch to do about not much. It's estimated we will get enough oil for less than 500 days from ANWR. Less than 16 months of oil at our current consumption level of 20.5 million
barrels per day
....But go back to the Senate and do a little compromising Teddy. It'll make you feel better.
Stevens: 'This is the saddest day of my life'
Would you like some cheese with that whine, Teddy?
