Maybe we could sell it back to Russia...
Feb. 5th, 2009 09:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
libertangoI just saw Craig Crawford quoted in a different place, and it reminded me of something he said I'd like to call attention to.
From Countdown on MSNBC, November 7, 2008:
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OLBERMANN: {...} Alaska, there are a lot of options in Alaska. (Senator Ted) Stevens might somehow not win this thing ultimately, or he might win and get expelled by the current Congress and his current people, or he might win and we might get foot dragging. Which of those options seems likeliest?
CRAWFORD: Well, I think if he were to win, there‘s going to be a real movement to get him out of the Senate. He‘s the flip side of Lieberman in some ways. They don‘t like him. Even members of his own party, going back to when I was actually a page in the Senate in the early ‘70s—I remember overhearing Strom Thurmond one time talk about couldn‘t we sell Alaska back to the Russians because he didn‘t like Stevens so much. And Republican—he‘s not a very popular man in the Senate. So I think even a few Republicans might go along with getting him out of there.
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Man... You've got to be an awfully big nuisance as a Republican if Strom Thurmond wants to sell your state back to the Russians just to get rid of you.
From Countdown on MSNBC, November 7, 2008:
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OLBERMANN: {...} Alaska, there are a lot of options in Alaska. (Senator Ted) Stevens might somehow not win this thing ultimately, or he might win and get expelled by the current Congress and his current people, or he might win and we might get foot dragging. Which of those options seems likeliest?
CRAWFORD: Well, I think if he were to win, there‘s going to be a real movement to get him out of the Senate. He‘s the flip side of Lieberman in some ways. They don‘t like him. Even members of his own party, going back to when I was actually a page in the Senate in the early ‘70s—I remember overhearing Strom Thurmond one time talk about couldn‘t we sell Alaska back to the Russians because he didn‘t like Stevens so much. And Republican—he‘s not a very popular man in the Senate. So I think even a few Republicans might go along with getting him out of there.
{emphasis added}
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Man... You've got to be an awfully big nuisance as a Republican if Strom Thurmond wants to sell your state back to the Russians just to get rid of you.
