Senator Voldemort (Ted Stevens)

what a great description of the ugly vicious POS
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpanw264565370dec26,0,5546349.story?coll=ny-editorials-headlines
Senator Voldemort
Ted Stevens loses on Alaska drilling

December 26, 2005

Like Lord Voldemort, the You-Know-Who of the Harry Potter series, Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) refuses to stay dead - in the parliamentary sense. So here's a good bet: Even though Stevens suffered a stinging defeat last week in his long fight to allow oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, he will return in yet another scary guise.

For now, Stevens is licking his wounds, muttering about the senators of both parties who rejected his most recent trickery: He had attached an ANWR drilling provision to the huge defense appropriations bill, which also contained funding for hurricane relief. His gamble was that senators would do anything to avoid even the appearance that they were voting against soldiers and hurricane victims. He lost.

Thanks to Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), most other Democrats and a handful of brave Republicans, You-Know-Who was unable to round up the 60 votes necessary to close debate on the main bill. Then the Senate narrowly voted to remove the drilling provision and easily passed the defense bill without it. So Cantwell and environmentalists have won a brilliant victory. But there's no question that the Dark Lord of Drilling will be back. Be afraid

He has made opening ANWR his life's work, and he won't give it up until he's dead. After him, there will be others, because it's a major economic issue up here where our only industries are oil and other mineral extraction, fishing, logging, and tourism. It's political suicide to be against drilling in Alaska, although many of us are trying to move on.

The Alaska Permanent Fund?

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...and also the jobs.

the Permanent Fund to be a great idea.

I expect as time goes by the ANWR will be tapped with little objection from anyone as oil reserves dwindle away. At that time offshore drilling will be common on both coasts of the North American continent. Natural gas reserves under the great lakes will be harvested.

To be really selfish one must consider using up the natural resources of all other countries before starting on our own.

Can of worms it is maintaining the "American Way of Life"

No flames please. These things will happen.

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And I agree with you that the Alaska Permanent Fund was a wonderfully farsighted idea when it was proposed and implemented by our former governor Jay Hammond and others back in the late '70s. It seems only fair that Alaska's residents should benefit from the wealth that is taken out of our ground. Other states down south with oil revenues should have thought of it.

Right now, though, the really big push up here, maybe even bigger than drilling in ANWR, is for a natural gas pipeline, the big dispute being whether to partner with Canada or to have an all-Alaska pipeline running alongside the trans-Alaska oil pipeline. And there's something about "stranded gas," which I think has to do with the fact that the oil companies are kind of holding the natural gas hostage rather than developing it. I haven't been following this real closely (it kind of makes my head spin), but certain Democratic state senators think that if the oil companies aren't going to get busy and develop the gas to the benefit of the state, then they should be required to pay taxes on it. I really don't understand all this fiscal stuff, but there's just always a constant battle going on here with the oil companies. Exxon still is resisting paying the judgments against it for the damage done by the VALDEZ oil spill. It's definitely a love-hate relationship with those guys.

as much as anything. Then the next time someone calls her a DINO and a skunk, I'll have one more
piece of information.

He was saying how he was going home and was going to be thinking about what happened and planned to remember. Since he's the King of Appropriations, he gets to say what's in and what's out of the bills. Those who voted against the drilling can kiss their dreams buh-bye.

Ted is a devil buggering despot.

I suggest he start in Santa Barbara and tell them the benefits.

Scenery enhancing offshore platforms. (Who wants to see the Channel Islands anyway?)



Skin-cancer reducing SPF 100 tanning oil!



Benefical weather effects of global warming!



Enjoy!

Sharon. He is definitely the devil in disguise as a two legged.

same old same old, reincarnated and just as evil, just more inept.