Yeah, well I mean there are good reasons for having a lot of oversight on the construction of a nuclear plant (a faulty one would wipe out more people than 100 9-11 attacks and cause horrendous damage to the country), but we do need to streamline the process for sure.
At least Obama actually seems to be the kind of guy who is getting things done in office. The stimulus included a lot of provisions that are pro-green energy. We had a lawyer who works in that field come and tell us about how happy the wind energy people in Texas are about it.
I mean if you love Obama or you hate him, one thing you can't say is that he hasn't done anything since he got in office. A lot of President's seem to twiddle their thumbs throughout their time in office.
I mean Bush used his first television address to stop research on stem cells. Ironically he was spending his time worrying about this and made the announcement on Aug. 10th, 2001, exactly one month before the largest attack on the American mainland took place. Maybe he should have been reading those memos he was getting about imminent terrorist attacks rather than worrying about stem cells!
We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke
It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...." Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson
