Posted on 08/12/2004 11:02:51 PM PDT by Libloather
Deja vote in the desert
The presidential campaign of Sen. John Kerry often seems to embody Yogi Berra's line, "This is like deja vu all over again." Mr. Kerry takes a popular position in a potential swing state, only to have his Senate record show that he had often voted the opposite way.
Mr. Kerry committed that deja vu all over again earlier this week. While campaigning in Las Vegas for the five electoral votes of the currently deadlocked state of Nevada, Mr. Kerry declared his opposition to the high-level nuclear waste repository being built at Yucca Mountain: "I can sum up my stance on the Yucca Mountain Plan in four words: Not on my watch. As a senator, I voted against it. And as president, I will do everything in my power to ensure your backyard does not become America's nuclear waste dump."
Actually, Mr. Kerry did all that a senator could do to ensure that Nevada was the site of the waste repository in 1987 by voting for the "Screw Nevada" bill, which essentially singled out the state as the site of the nuclear waste repository. Mr. Kerry voted six other times for measures supporting the project. In 1987, he voted for a provision (different from the "Screw Nevada" bill) that made the Yucca project almost inevitable. In 1997, Mr. Kerry voted against a provision, sponsored by the minority whip, Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada, that would have required the written consent of governors for nuclear waste to be transported across state lines.
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Then he voted NAY, at least, that's what the proganda says. He did say that he'll cancel the Yucca Mtn. bill. Bush was just here and said that he would appoint scientists and do what they recommend. Well then why did he sign it in the first place? ANd I suppose it will be those same scientists who never bothered to complete the tests in the first place. I used to fight with one of them online here in '01. He regularly spewed hogwash and when confronted with the facts would try to weasel around them. The fact remains that Yucca Mtn. is on a trans-San Andreas faultline and no amount of schmooze will make that go away. Not depth, not recorded history..which in Nevada goes back about 100 years.
Man, he keeps stepping on his beeber, you just can't make this stuff up!
Kerry demands, "Who are you going to believe? My deeds or my words!?"
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