NV Sen.Cand. (for Reid's seat) Angle: It's God's plan that children get raped.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Erm, seeing as President Obama has publicly stated several times that nuclear energy will be a major part in his energy proposals, you have pancakes on your head.

Lots of talk not much action as usual. The key for nuclear energy is what to do with the waste long term.

Two options avail that Dems have shot down:

Recycle of spent fuel ala France et. al. - Prohibition via Carter executive order.

Long term storage location - Prohibition via Oabama executive order.

No alternatives have been suggested save ongoing practice of "interim" storage at the 104 or so active nuclear power plants. If no solution is in the offing new licensees will not be stepping up. There was a flurry of new licensing activity up until the executive order was done. Since then nothing new thanks to the ohh sooo nuclear supportive administration and the indecision about if a national nuclear waste repository will be ever completed. (likely not considereing Yucca already was 20 plus years into construction, impact statements, )

[MrFun]

never mind

[DRoseDARs]

The Senate shot down the original proposal May last year for closing Gitmo, his administration is working on a compromise. Obama was my third choice in Nevada's Dem Caucus. I'm not a cheerleader by any stretch of the imagination. His waffling on Afghanistan and Iraq irritates me as well as many other issues, but the nonsense playing out in Washington since the start of this presidency rests on the shoulders of Republicans, and Obama's too for enabling them and coddling then like a spineless wuss.

[David Floyd]

Sorry, but you can't blame the Republicans at a time when the DEMOCRATS held a 60-40 majority in the Senate. The Democrats were FILIBUSTER PROOF and they couldn't get anything through! Why? Because some of the far-left stuff Obama and Reid wanted to push through was too far left for the Democratic Party.

When the Republicans held a smaller majority, they pushed things through, no problem. Why the Republicans can push through legislation with a 52-48 majority but the Dems can't do it with a 60-40 majority is just simply beyond me.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Obviously the one that thinks that pregnancy from incest and rape may be part of god's greater plan for better things

Why do you hate babies? If the child goes to full term and is put up for adoption making another family complete a potentially bad outcome?

Are you so close minded that you need to think of only a worst possible outcome? I have no moral qualms about the choice of a woman to abort as the situation presents itself but I wouldn't be so presumptious to say that no good can possibly result should she choose not to regardless of the circumstances that result in the pregnancy.

[giblets]

Sorry, but you can't blame the Republicans at a time when the DEMOCRATS held a 60-40 majority in the Senate. The Democrats were FILIBUSTER PROOF and they couldn't get anything through! Why? Because some of the far-left stuff Obama and Reid wanted to push through was too far left for the Democratic Party.

When the Republicans held a smaller majority, they pushed things through, no problem. Why the Republicans can push through legislation with a 52-48 majority but the Dems can't do it with a 60-40 majority is just simply beyond me.

Obama is not too far left for the Democratic Party. It just takes disagreement from one Democratic senator out of sixty to make the Democrats vulnerable to filibusters.

[David Floyd]

With that said, the product of most rape and incest cases - the child, if carried to term - doesn't usually end up as a positive. Usually, the child is born into poverty, drugs, and crime, and in many cases is born with serious defects due to things the mother did during the pregnancy. Your typical rape/incest victims, especially those who carry the child to term, are NOT suitable mothers and/or do NOT have a suitable environment in which to bring up the child.

[DRoseDARs]

Lots of talk not much action as usual. The key for nuclear energy is what to do with the waste long term.

Two options avail that Dems have shot down:

Recycle of spent fuel ala France et. al. - Prohibition via Carter executive order.

Long term storage location - Prohibition via Oabama executive order.

No alternatives have been suggested save ongoing practice of "interim" storage at the 104 or so active nuclear power plants. If no solution is in the offing new licensees will not be stepping up. There was a flurry of new licensing activity up until the executive order was done. Since then nothing new thanks to the ohh sooo nuclear supportive administration and the indecision about if a national nuclear waste repository will be ever completed. (likely not considereing Yucca already was 20 plus years into construction, impact statements, )

Yucca Mountain was, is, and remains an awful choice for long-term storage. You can pout and moan all you like, but the science isn't going to change to make baby happy no matter how much the DOE tries to finagle documents. There were other proposed sites, but they were dismissed in short order not because of qualities they had, but because of the qualities Yucca had: Small state with little clout in Congress and LOTS of federally-owned land.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

at David

Which is why adoption is a perfectly valid and good outcome.

[David Floyd]

Obama is not too far left for the Democratic Party. It just takes disagreement from one Democratic senator out of sixty to make the Democrats vulnerable to filibusters.

So what you are saying is that Bush and his agenda was more mainstream than Obama and his agenda, given that Bush typically did NOT have Republican Senators defecting to the other side, and in many cases had many Democrats voting with him?

[giblets]

So what you are saying is that Bush and his agenda was more mainstream than Obama and his agenda, given that Bush typically did NOT have Republican Senators defecting to the other side, and in many cases had many Democrats voting with him?

I think Republicans are more obstructionist.

[David Floyd]

Which is why adoption is a perfectly valid and good outcome.

Just exactly how many crack babies have you adopted?

None? Well, what about fetal alcohol syndrome babies?

None? Well, what about those born as a result of incestuous rape?

None? Well, how about how many babies have you adopted, period?

That's what I thought, none.

[David Floyd]

I think Republicans are more obstructionist.

So the Democrats simply allowed Bush to push his agenda so that they wouldn't be seen as "obstructionist", even though they strongly disagreed?

Wow, if that's the case, no wonder the worst enemy of the Democratic Party is the Democratic Party.

[DRoseDARs]

Sorry, but you can't blame the Republicans at a time when the DEMOCRATS held a 60-40 majority in the Senate. The Democrats were FILIBUSTER PROOF and they couldn't get anything through! Why? Because some of the far-left stuff Obama and Reid wanted to push through was too far left for the Democratic Party.

When the Republicans held a smaller majority, they pushed things through, no problem. Why the Republicans can push through legislation with a 52-48 majority but the Dems can't do it with a 60-40 majority is just simply beyond me.

Spinelessness. Not because of the ideas, but because of the lack of spines. They've been cowed into submission by Republicans since Reagan and know no other way to govern: At the behest of Republicans. Everytime I hear on TV about Republicans threatening to filibuster, I want to scream, "MAKE. THEM. FILIBUSTER." The threat is all that sufficient these days, Dems are so scared Reps will be mean to them ... never mind they resort to all manner of vile tactics regardless of what Dems do. I win you lose is the game Reps are playing, and Dems are more than willing to lose.

[Ogie Oglethorpe]

Yucca Mountain was, is, and remains an awful choice for long-term storage. You can pout and moan all you like, but the science isn't going to change to make baby happy no matter how much the DOE tries to finagle documents. There were other proposed sites, but they were dismissed in short order not because of qualities they had, but because of the qualities Yucca had: Small state with little clout in Congress and LOTS of federally-owned land.

The ignorance in this statement is mind boggling.

Key attributes included:

seismically stable region for long term storage solution without worries of environmental impact due to ruptured containers given a seismic event or fault lines leading to ground water. - Check

Low population density - Check per above admission

Proximity to nearest neighbor - Check per above admission that it was deep within federal lands

Given that all other sites were dismissed in favor of Yucca and that it was green lighted to go after every possible objection could be thrown at it and proven to be unfounded. (despite your inane comment that the DOE finagled the documents ) To start anew and go through the effort to find a national repository is an effort at least 40 years in the making given the Yucca experience. Not gonna happen. Thanks Harry.