Friday, November 02, 2007
No new nukes, says George the Hippie
George W. Gore, serving the clams instead of the people as usual, has vetoed HR 2641 for having "excessive spending". Here is C-Span's summary of the bill. When I look through it, I don't see anything excessive or 'porky'. Most of it just continues existing departmental expenses at flat levels.
It does contain one emphasized new expenditure: about 200 million to get the Yucca Flats nuclear waste repository moving. This is critical to the resumption of nuclear power in the US.
A few days ago, Gore's Secretary of Energy, Sam Bodman, was asked about Yucca Flats, and he responded that the process would "inevitably" take at least ten years because of litigation.
Well, litigation is not a law of nature like gravity. In fact, Sovereign Immunity means that the government can only be sued when it explicitly allows or invites a certain type of lawsuit. Therefore, Bodman (and by extension his boss GW Gore) was telling us openly that the Gore Administration doesn't want to build Yucca Flats, and Gore's veto of this spending bill reinforces the message.
The only thing in HR2641 that looks excessive to me is the expense for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Activities. One billion??? Where does that go? ¶ 9:21 AM
It does contain one emphasized new expenditure: about 200 million to get the Yucca Flats nuclear waste repository moving. This is critical to the resumption of nuclear power in the US.
A few days ago, Gore's Secretary of Energy, Sam Bodman, was asked about Yucca Flats, and he responded that the process would "inevitably" take at least ten years because of litigation.
Well, litigation is not a law of nature like gravity. In fact, Sovereign Immunity means that the government can only be sued when it explicitly allows or invites a certain type of lawsuit. Therefore, Bodman (and by extension his boss GW Gore) was telling us openly that the Gore Administration doesn't want to build Yucca Flats, and Gore's veto of this spending bill reinforces the message.
The only thing in HR2641 that looks excessive to me is the expense for Nuclear Non-Proliferation Activities. One billion??? Where does that go? ¶ 9:21 AM
