It was far closer than it should have been, but Alaska voters finally sent Ted Stevens to the curb. The king of earmarks began his service in the Senate in 1968..
The fact the Republicans put a convicted 85 year old felon on the ballot tells much about the state of the party in Alaska. The fact he almost won points to the eccentricities of politics within The Last Frontier.
In honor of his ouster, here is a partial transcript of Stevens’ famously nonsensical thoughts on the Internet and Network Neutrality (via Wikipedia):
Ten movies streaming across that, that Internet, and what happens to your own personal Internet? I just the other day got… an Internet was sent by my staff at 10 o’clock in the morning on Friday. I got it yesterday [Tuesday]. Why? Why? Because it got tangled up with all these things going on the Internet commercially.
[…] They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the Internet. And again, the Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It’s not a big truck. It’s a series of tubes. And if you don’t understand, those tubes can be filled and if they are filled, when you put your message in, it gets in line and it’s going to be delayed by anyone that puts into that tube enormous amounts of material, enormous amounts of material.
So long scumbag. You won’t be missed.
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