Wednesday, April 27, 2005

As Strongly As He Ever Has

ABC News reports The Republican White House is standing firm in support of DeLay, Bolton, private accounts, nuclear power, a lean budget, and the constitutional option on judges.

The Senate Republican leadership is standing firm in support of Bolton, private accounts, nuclear power, a lean budget, and the constitutional option on judges. (DeLay is not their business.)

The House Republican leadership is standing firm in support of DeLay, private accounts, nuclear power, and a lean budget (Bolton and judges are not their business).

The House Republican leadership is, apparently, going wobbly on the recently enacted ethics rules changes, which, when adopted, were cast as really important, a big improvement, and the right thing for America and the House.

Democrats — with visions of Lucy's football in their dreamy eyes — think this is all a big house of cards, about to tumble.


Hopefully the House Republican leadership will not go wobbly on the ethics rules changes.

2 comments:

Mark said...

It will be interesting to see how the various factions of the left react to the Nuclear Power proposals.

I blogged back on 2/1/05 on the subject. Wired Magazine did an in depth story on the state of nuclear power generation in the world and why hardcore Greens were saying that the US, and the world, needs to build more nuclear power plants.
Here is a snipet from the Wired article:

Some of the world's most thoughtful greens have discovered the logic of nuclear power, including Gaia theorist James Lovelock, Greenpeace cofounder Patrick Moore, and Britain's Bishop Hugh Montefiore, a longtime board member of Friends of the Earth.

and

The more seriously you take the idea of global warming, the more seriously you have to take nuclear power. Clean coal, solar-powered roof tiles, wind farms in North Dakota - they're all pie in the emissions-free sky. Sure, give them a shot. But zero-carbon reactors are here and now. We know we can build them. Their price tag is no mystery. They fit into the existing electric grid without a hitch. Flannel-shirted environmentalists who fight these realities run the risk of ending up with as much soot on their hands as the slickest coal-mining CEO.

Mark said...

Oh ya...Coal in the US is protected by the former Klansman, Robert Byrd, democrat Senator from West Virginia.

Another quote from the Wired Article:

...coal-burning electric power plants have fouled the air with enough heavy metals and other noxious pollutants to cause 15,000 premature deaths annually in the US alone, according to a Harvard School of Public Health study. Believe it or not, a coal-fired plant releases 100 times more radioactive material than an equivalent nuclear reactor - right into the air, too, not into some carefully guarded storage site. (And, by the way, more than 5,200 Chinese coal miners perished in accidents last year.)