Don't ask them their solutions. They only have platitudes.
By Erick Posted in 2008 — Comments (20) / Email this page » / Leave a comment »
Here ladies and gentlemen is the ultimate example of Democratic pandering.
The leading Democratic presidential candidates are united on the government's Yucca Mountain nuclear waste storage plan: They'd scrap it.
What then is their solution for dealing with the accumulated nuclear waste bound for Yucca?
They don't have one.
What then is their solution to expanding nuclear energy in this country?
They don't have one.
What then is their solution to make us an energy independent nation?
They don't really have one except the platitudes. It's all very similar to their strategy for dealing with terrorists.
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In addition to the Vermont location, we should have satellite facilities at the following locations:
-Hyannisport, close to the Kennedy compound
-North Carolina, close to the Edwards manse
-Tennessee, close to the Goreacle's guzzling household
-Chappaqua, near Hillary's modest suburban retreat
-Beverly Hills, on general principles even if it's surplus capacity
Good long term plan, but let's hit the biggest t*rd first.
Punish St. Patrick. Put Yucca Mountain in downtown Burlington.
Can we please stop posing tough questions to the Democrat candidates for president? It's not fair!!! We can't expect them, or their army of advisers, to think through and develop solutions to difficult problems confronting our country. We've already seen what happens when they are challenged with these kinds of issues in the Congress, they fold like a lawn chair. Enough is enough! To continue to badger them for detailed answers is another ploy out of the Republican handbook. So lets recomit ourselves to leaving these warped intellects alone, and resort to simply to asking Yes or No answers, or what their preferences are regarding diamonds and pearls. IF we can do this, we'll establish, for ourselves,a new level of tolerance with our political elites. We'll not only think they're shallow, we'll have ample comfirmation of same. Right Wolf?
Why can't you be like that nice Wolf Blitzer, such a cute little nebbish, who knows how to treat a girl right!
...."Excellent question! I hear from people all the time all over the country that are very concerned about this. As you know, I have a 35 year record of....(whatever)"
“.....women and minorities hardest hit”
I have to disagree with you, Erick. Hillary Clinton has a plan, and it involves a de-facto nationalization of the oil companies.
It also involves adopting forward-looking policies like the ones we see in Massachusetts, where Governor Deval Patrick has stated unequivocally that by raising energy prices and slapping businesses with compliance fees, they can achieve energy independence through attrition: never having to build another power plant, of any kind, ever again. In the meantime, they will allow Joseph Kennedy and his Citizen's Energy Corporation to import oil from Venezuela at below-market prices to help him continue to establish his good name here in the Commonwealth.
It's called the negative-economic-growth, help the Socialist dictator theory of energy independence. And I won't go into what their plans are for complying with the United Nations Diktats -- they're even more "progressive" and ambitious for the United States.
That's the plan.
If you scratch the surface of Hillary's "Plan" as articulated above, you can also discern what her meaning of Energy Independence really is:
Taking the profits of private-sector corporations, throwing them into a government-run slush fund that can then be doled out by a Democrat Congress, keeping the Right People rich. Believe me, John Doerr is just itching for some of that kind of good Government love in his next round of energy technology investments.
Just loop the 3 seconds of Hillary saying, "I want to take those profits", and run them ten times in a thirty second spot. Make that her mantra.
People will figure her out.
One of the few places that Hillary drops (most of) the pretense and tells it like she really wants it, is when she's speaking to like-minded groups like Democrats.org. And those are just the *public* statements, fit to be broadcast on C-Span.
Behind closed doors I have no doubt they're even more telling.
I'm with Joel Surnow. It's inconceivable that this shrill socialist with no accomplishments or political talents and a boatload of scandals and corruption will be elected president.
If she and the rest of the America haters in her party keep this up, chances are good Republicans will not only take the WH but will retake Congress. A distinct possibility at the very least.
If the Dems are insane now, what would they be like if the above happened?
You may not be interested in war, but war is interested in you.
Apparently none of the Dems wants to offend Harry Potty by acknowledging that Yucca is the single most appropriate place within our sovereign boundaries for storing this waste.
We need to hold these folks accountable for standing against those who are making hard calls for our country without themselves offering specific alternatives.
My theory is that the dems want to put the waste in Utah because they know it is a solid red state and Mitt Romney is from their.
Yucca Mountain has been on the hit list of the Natural Resources Defense Council for at least two decades. I remember reading in the early 80's a feature in the New York Times Sunday magazine (IIRC) regarding the opening of Yucca and how it was being fought tooth-and-nail by environmental groups.
It has been more than two decades since the environmental lobby in this country went to war over Yucca Mountain, and the result is that nuclear waste has built up in poorly-guarded pools and repositories across the United States, because there is no place to ship it for permanent storage.
This was deliberate, and I can easily believe that the NRDC is secretly hoping for another accident on the scale of Three Mile Island to shut down the nuclear power industry in this country permanently. Jane Fonda and Jimmy Carter did their part, but the long fight, the permanent battle to cripple true energy independence in America (while allowing the French and the Japanese and the rest of the world) to continue to build reactors has been largely successful.
Yucca Mountain is the enviro's Alamo here in the United States.
It's time the American people woke up. The Usual Suspects realized in the 1970s that a permanent, secure repository for nuclear waste would mean an expansion of the nuclear power industry in this country and that is why they have been opposed to it from the moment it was proposed. And they have been successful in that fight.
It should be a sobering thought to anyone looking at the issues of proliferation and energy independence that the Left is generally more supportive of Mahmoud Ahmedinejad developing nuclear fuel and enrichment capability in Iran than they are of any expansion of nuclear power in the United States. You can't make these things up: the Left hands them to us.
You can't make these things up: the Left hands them to us.
Which is why I am reminded daily that the universe is very strange. Thanks pointing these things out.
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"I AM WHO I AM"; and He said, "Thus you shall say to the sons of Israel, 'I AM has sent me to you.'"
"You make it. We'll take it, and spread our ill-gotten bounty amongst our friends, family and supporters, and forever grow the size and scope of "progressive" government at your expense."
Simple, but effective.
The only requirement is that a compliant press and our government schools share the same mission: Convince enough of the American people that government is the solution without said government ever having to actually solve a single problem.
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“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so.” – Ronald Reagan
The fact that the average voter cannot be relied upon to turn their backs on this liberal insanity. It pains me to watch the pandering to Clinton by the press, and the people they coral into her meetings. Worse yet, the left wing electorate and MSM have continued to give Democrats incentive to continue their non-sensical rhetoric regarding the war, our environment, and our utter distaste for energy independence and not one has the ability to put forth a rational proposal. Just look at the disgraceful performance of CNN last Thursday evening. I continue to believe we will awaken from this nightmare and elect an acceptable Conservative to the White House. Unfortunately, with a 50-50 split on anything we do, the Independents become an incredibly important swing vote. Let's hope they have the ability to see thru this liberal maze.
If I'm elected:
Send a pro-rata share of nuclear waste to each American.
Republicans can keep their share at Yucca Mountain. Democrats can keep it at home.
Vote for Obvious!
Actually, Erick, you got inside my decision loop on this one, but this one has stuck in my craw for some time and methinks that we could kill two birds with one stone.
I don't know about anyone else, but I am really sick of the most annoying, flatulent, self-impressed senator in the chamber - Pat Leahy (D-Sweden). This guy doesn't do anything useful, and is just a master of office politics. You have to wonder why he can act like he does and sail on totally unpunished.
So I agree with the leading D presidential candidates. Let's scrap Yucca Mountain. Instead, let's put the National Nuclear Waste Depository right smack in downtown Burlington, Vermont. We can even name it after St. Patrick.
Who's with me?