{"id":5147,"date":"2008-10-27T13:22:17","date_gmt":"2008-10-27T20:42:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5147"},"modified":"2008-10-27T13:22:17","modified_gmt":"2008-10-27T20:42:05","slug":"nuclear-safety-schmuclear-schmafety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=5147","title":{"rendered":"Nuclear Safety, Schmuclear Schmafety"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know, this is perhaps the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, and I read The Corner:<\/p>\n

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You get that? Barack Obama’s a namby-pamby liberal idiot because he wants nuclear power to be “safe.” It’s totally safe! Which is why the GOP is planning on storing spent fuel in their backyards, next to the garden tools.<\/p>\n

This isn’t just stupid, it’s the reductio ad absurdum<\/em> of the Republican argument this year. “The liberals say we should think about things beyond the most facile level. Stupid liberals! Let’s go blow something up!” It’s reckless, and it’s embarrassing. If the Democrats were trying to argue using similarly fact-free terms, I swear, I’d vote GOP — because they’d be showing themselves to be fundamentally unserious about the very notion of governance. Which is exactly what the Republicans have shown themselves to be.<\/p>\n

For the record, Obama’s totally right: nuclear power should be looked into, but it also should only be adopted if it can be done safely, with a certain knowledge of where we’re putting the spent fuel rods. And we need to answer a lot of questions — are we going to open up Yucca Mountain<\/a>? Does John McCain really want the nuclear-fuel trains running through Phoenix? And is he going to say we should do this right now, with Nevada a swing state? What are our proposed standards for safety? Are we going to talk to our friends the French about their experience with nuclear? Or are we going to dismiss them because they’re France?<\/p>\n

And these are just questions that I came up with off the top of my head. I would expect a man who wants to be president to think about this stuff more than I have over the past ten minutes. But that’s not how the GOP works anymore. And that’s why they’re going to lose next Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You know, this is perhaps the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen, and I read The Corner: You get that? Barack Obama’s a namby-pamby liberal idiot because he wants nuclear power to be “safe.” It’s totally safe! Which is why the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elections-and-politics","category-environmental-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}