re: #3 Sharmuta

Democratic sponsors of the climate bill are far short of the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster. They hope a compromises could bring along uncommitted centrist Democrats and some Republicans. Along with talk of opening more waters to oil drilling, support for nuclear energy is seen as the carrot that might attract Republicans.

If they have any principles in energy independence, they will support these measures. Otherwise, I will have to assume their rhetoric on EI is as false as their support of fiscal responsibility.

re: #57 Killgore Trout

re: #48 Taqyia2Me

How about a bill with ONLY the nuclear expansion component? If they democrats were serious, this would have already happened, and they would have had major bi=partisan support.

That’s not the way it works. The only incentive to put it into a bill would be to get Republican votes for Cap and Trade. If Republicans can’t/won’t vote for it there’s no incentive for Dems to put it in the bill. You can’t expect the Dems to pander to the Republicans because they don’t have to.

Thank goodness for Democrat’s sake that they have no EI principles (or fiscal ones either, but I digress) and therfore don’t need to be held to a similar standard. No one expects them to. Sort of a corollary to the “soft bigotry of low expactations” as expressed in other fields.