Energy, Ethics and Nukes oh My!

President Bush came forward today with a number of brilliant suggestions to solve the energy crisis. Build refineries on closed military bases, not a bad idea except refineries don't make money so oil companies don't want to build them. Tax breaks for clear diesel cars, that's a genuinely good idea, really! Give the energy industry guarantees to avoid all those pesky regulations when building a nuclear power point. Never mind that the American public is terrified of the plants, ever hear of Three Mile Island; and all that nasty nuclear waste still has no place to go for oh, 1,000 years until it decays. All of those suggestions won't help for years, if ever. It would be silly to ask for increasing the CAFE (car gas fuel requirements) standards wouldn't it, that would only reduce demand. Pardon me silly thought.

Speaking of nuclear waste and Nukes, the nuclear option, removing the ability to filibuster on judicial nominations, remains on the table at the Senate. Of course a recent ABC poll illustrated that 60% of the public is against this radical rule change, so let's hope the rules get changed! Nothing like a good enemy to unite the opposition.

Speaking of enemies, poor Tom DeLay, is having a bad ethical day. Dennis Hastert, speaker of the House, ate some crow today and is changing the ethics rules back to where they were. Now a split House ethics committee vote will start an investigation. Good thing DeLay's PAC is a significant contributor to the chair of that committee.

I'm getting flush with all the exciting stuff going on!