Ted Steven's attacks on his enemies is insuring their victories. Good going Uncle Ted!

Fond memory, though, has given way to bad blood between Alaska and Washington -- and Stevens blames much of it on Sen. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.), who faces reelection this fall. She has lead Democratic opposition to Stevens's long-frustrated crusade for oil drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.

When Cantwell again worked last December to torpedo the drilling, Stevens warned on the Senate floor that he would go to her state and "tell them what you've done." And so he did last week, but more in sadness than anger.
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I can't remember until these past few years any senator from your state who wasn't a close friend of mine," Stevens said. "That is a problem."

The problem, though, does not appear to be costing Cantwell voter support. Polls here show that the public is opposed to ANWR drilling and increasingly frustrated with Republican leadership on Capitol Hill.

Stevens's ire, in fact, may prove a political windfall for Cantwell, who squeaked into the Senate six years ago with a winning margin of just over 2,000 votes and whom some Republican strategists have described as beatable.

Ted is a bully and, though I have voted for him in the past, I certainly will not vote for him ever again.

ANWR is the Alaska version of the "Holy Grail". There is not a politician up here, Republican or Democrat, that does not promise to try and get it opened. So far they have been ineffective. And that is why Cantwell has become such a target for Stevens. Stevens is virtually owned by the oil companies up here. He sold his soul long, long ago.