It appears Pelosi can now be listed along side Obama and Reid as Washington DC surrender monkey:
Given the opposition [by radical right wing DC Dems] in the Senate, Pelosi, D-Calif., signaled late last year she did not view a public option as a requirement for a final compromise. Asked in an interview Dec. 16 whether she could support legislation without it, she said, “It depends what else is in the bill.”
More recently, she listed her goals for a House-Senate compromise without mentioning the provision she long has backed.
I don’t remember anybody screaming about whether the glutted medical care insurance industry gets to keep 20% or 15% of the premiums, but apparently that has become the issue of import for Pelosi.
No wonder Weasel “The ACORN Attacker” Welch likes her so much … she won’t make him look weak and ineffectual.
And the Entergy Yankee gift that keeps giving [pollution]:
[Entergy Yankee spokesbot Rob] Williams said that one thing the special team had to decide was whether to drill other wells to locate the source of the contamination.
. . .
“Anytime you’ve got contamination in groundwater, the concern is ‘Is it indicative of a larger problem?'” [Nuclear Regulatory Commission spokesbot Neil Sheehan] said.
(Entergy begins probe of radioactive leak, Barre/Montpelier Times Argus, 01/11/10)
I mean … what the hell? Why would we need to locate the source of radiation contamination? Why would the presence of tritium in the people’s ground water (you know … drinking water and such) just outside a broken nuclear plant be any indication of a larger problem?
***sigh***