Sen.Stevens will be depressed and quit if Anwar isn't drilled - really

[donsu]

http://adn.com/news/alaska/story/6261930p-6138728c.html

Struggle to open ANWR leaves Stevens 'depressed'

Sen. Ted Stevens said Friday he's been suffering from "clinical depression" for the past year over his failure to get Congress to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil exploration and will consider retirement when his term ends in 2008 if such a measure is stripped from the budget next week.

Stevens, 81, later upgraded his condition and said he is not taking medication for depression or seeing a therapist. He said his personal physician has told him to take more time off from work.

But Stevens, an Alaska Republican, said his normally peppery temper has become uncharacteristically short, even toward his loyal staff. He said he is confronting his own guilt for agreeing to the compromise that put the refuge off-limits in 1980, along with the reality that his World War II generation is rapidly fading from the scene and with it the sense that oil is a strategic commodity that should not be locked in the ground.
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if all else fails he can always stamp his foot and pout

[GetTheRightVote]

1. What a baby, go ahead & quit, it will be better for all of us

:kick:

[Sequoia]

2. What a baby!

So he feels guily about protecting the enviornment, the old coot. Time for him to get out.

[skylarmae]

3. oh boo hoo Ted - retire and go home and appreciate your

BEAUTIFUL State! really...

[amazona]

4. if he's ill he can retire right now

If he really has clinical depression, he should take his meds and talk to his therapist. If he wants to pretend to be ill to gain pity, that it just pathetic in a man his age.

The conservation movement is a breeding ground of communists
and other subversives. We intend to clean them out,
even if it means rounding up every birdwatcher in the country.
--John Mitchell, US Attorney General 1969-72

[Robbien]

5. He is depressed because Exxon will not hand over his retirement kickback

until ANWR is passed.

[gratuitous]

6. Waah, waah, waah

You know, between Ted Stevens the environmental rapist and Charlie Swaney who lives in Arctic Village, I'm a little more inclined to credit Charlie's opinion as to what will and will not cause damage to his town, his people, his land and his way of life.

Resign Mr. Stevens. You're only embarrassing yourself right now. But you will soon embarrass the entire state of Alaska.

[LiviaOlivia]

7. Fuck Stevens!

Greedy old POS.

[KansDem]

8. This smacks of Oral Roberts' "God will call me home" schtick...

he used in 1987 to raise $8,000,000.

So perhaps Stevens is trying this strategy with his "If we don't drill there soon, I'll go insane" approach...

[blindpig]

9. good

He's the kind of asshole who wrecked the lower 48 a century ago. A pox upon him and his wretched daughter.

[Blue_In_AK]

15. Actually, that's Murkowski with the wretched daughter...

Stevens has a wretched son who is now being groomed in the Alaska state legislature.

[blindpig]

16. damn, can't keep my reactionaries straight without a scorecard!

thanks for the correction.

[LittleClarkie]

10. A threat of a dramatic exit

I thought only bloggers did that.

And this is suppose to be incentive... how?

[housewolf]

11. In other words...

If he doesn't come through with opening the Anwar oil fields, this oil & gas contributors are going to put their money elsewhere and he won't have the funds to run again.

[roguevalley]

12. he's gotten more retarded over the last year than I've ever seen

in 30 years. He's loco. Please. Quit.

[LaPera]

13. Fuck this old, greedy republican pig!

[Blue_In_AK]

14. Yep, that's what he says...very petulant about it, too...

I wonder if he realizes that he's almost 100 years old and that he's going to be four years older by the time the elections roll around again. Maybe we can FINALLY get a Democratic senator down there with any luck at all.

[KharmaTrain]

17. Don't Let The Door Hit Ya...

...where the invisible cloud being split ya...

Stevens is such a corporate toadie he wouldn't have the stones to actually do this since that'd mean really taking a stand and having conviction. Probably his phone rang and he was told to sit down and shut up.

[Radical Activist]

18. I hope that mindset about resources dies with him.

A lot of people in his generation had sense enough to defy that attitude.

[truebrit71]

19. Good, go ahead and quit you f**king looney...

..You get clinically depressed when you can't rape the wilderness??

WTF??

[Cocoa]

20. making us choose between him and the caribou

either they die or he kills himself. Save a senator, kill a caribou.

[Amfortas]

21. cry me a river....

NOT !

[donheld]

22. I'd kinda like to see the back of Sen Stevens

as he heads back to Alaska for a permanent stay. Sounds absolutely wonderful, he can leave now if he likes.

[Blue_In_AK]

23. Yes, I think he's outstayed his welcome in Washington DC...

...not that he hasn't brought the pork home to Alaska, but I think he needs to give someone a little more forward-looking a chance at representing our interests.

[Swamp Rat]

24. Boo! Sen. Ted Stevens! Hisssss!

:puke: