Look how nice and gentle he looks in this picture. Kind of deceiving isn't it?Weighty policy matters hang in limbo on the eve of a midterm election year. A spending bill containing money for the military and Gulf Coast hurricane recovery also now includes a provision to allow Arctic oil drilling - a recent addition by Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, that has infuriated senators of both parties. The move would force lawmakers to vote for the package or be accused of withholding support for U.S. troops and storm victims.
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I hope the good lord will help me keep my temper," Stevens, the one wearing the Incredible Hulk necktie, said just before Democrats and two Republicans blocked a vote on the package.
Tossing a glance across the aisle at Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., who had denounced the drilling measure, Stevens grumbled, "I asked for his apology once; I wouldn't accept it now."
Stevens then threatened to keep the Senate in session through New Year's Day until the matter is settled. It wouldn't be the first time he rang in a new year on the Senate floor, he said.
Some lawmakers said they were outraged as much by Stevens' procedural hardball as by the prospect of oil and gas exploration in the Arctic.
"Shame!" scolded the dean of the Senate, Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va.
Oh those quotes are just Ted-elicious! So do you think that Uncle Ted is going to get coal in his stocking this Christmas or what?
You know I bet that all he really needs is a hug. Go ahead hug him. Just don't show any fear I hear he bites!
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