A Democrat breaks with tradition

Christian Science Monitor ^ | December 30, 2003 | P. Amy MacKinnon

[Elkiejg]

Jeb Bush has made it clear that Florida is off limits. (to oil drilling)

I'm a FL resident and I appreciate all that Jeb is doing for our State ---- but I don't agree with him on this. Everybody wants America to be self-dependent for oil, as long as it's not in their backyard. Sorry, Nothing should be off limits if it will free us from Arab oil dependency.

[jwalsh07]

Yup, it's easy to overlook that one because of the gap in time. I'll have to refresh my memory on the particulars. I'm getting older Meteskey, ram is a bit more volatile than I'd like.

[metesky]

That's pretty funny. I'll be 60 in less than a month, but I can remember with absolute clarity everything that happened 30 or more years ago.

What I had for breakfast this morning eludes me however.

[The South Texan]

A Democrat with a brain. A true rare find today. Some Republicans are getting there as well.

[petercooper]

A Democrat with a brain

I didn't think it was possible

[prognostigaator]

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[bdeaner]

Excellent article. This is one for the bookmarks. Another sign that the Demonrats are a dying breed.

[cordeiro]

Somebody buy this lady more of whatever she's drinking. PING!!

[Criminal Number 18F]

Very close to the reasoning of my liberal brother, who will be doing the same -- voting for the R for a significant office, for the first time in his life.

"P. Amy" though -- bit precious isn't it?

I never understood the opposition to nuclear power. It is the most environmentally sound, cheapest, and safest form of electricity there is. Look at the number of people burned by liquid fuels every year and blown to bits in gas-line explosions. Look at the deaths of miners and petroleum workers.

Ask the people of Centralia and Blytheville, PA, if they think nuclear power is a threat to their towns... oops, I forgot... those towns are gone, thanks to a coal mine fire that has been burning for forty years. (Imagine seeing your family home bulldozed because it is in the path of this relentless fire... that happened to everybody there).

But no, because education in this country is in the crapper, vast swathes of the nation think that nuclear power is hazardous, mostly because the lame science education they got never distinguished between a nuclear reactor and a nuclear bomb.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[alnick]

But it's so much more fun to disparage Ashcroft with the drape story than it is to acknowledge the truth.

[Straight Vermonter]

Who would have believed after September 11 that we would go this long without being hit agian by Al-qaeda?

I certainly have my differences with the president but he has done well keeping the terrorists off balance.

[speekinout]

Who would have believed after September 11 that we would go this long without being hit agian by Al-qaeda?

Al-qaeda needs a sponsor state so they can launder money, conduct training exercises, etc. The problem is that any head of state who sponsors Al-qaeda might wind up in a spider hole. They aren't getting many volunteers, not to say that there isn't one we don't know about yet.