What a way to approach the huge Farm Bill issue in advance of a convention in Denver! Maybe Chicagoans don’t understand the interconnectedness of environmental issues in the West. Of course voting records are known! Tom Harkin’s ethanol bid, Obama’s backing of the corn states is naturally going to rub against up against the Rockies, and all points west.
Obama hands McCain radioactive Nevada issue: Ad hits McCain for Yucca Mountain support. UPDATE McCain response
By Lynn Sweet on August 9, 2008 10:58 AM |
[Apparently Barack Obama is also taking a vacation from the facts, ignoring his own votes in support of the Yucca Mountain project. Either Barack Obama is too inexperienced to understand that his votes on the floor of the United States Senate are recorded for Americans to review, or he’s simply showing incredible hypocrisy.” —Tucker Bounds, spokesman John McCain 2008
In 2005, Barack Obama Voted Twice To Fund The Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository. “Passage of the bill that would provide $31.2 billion in fiscal 2006 for energy and water development projects, including $5.3 billion for the Army Corps of Engineers and $25 billion for the Energy Department. It also would provide $577 million for the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository.” (H.R. 2419, CQ Vote #172: Passed 92-3: R 50-3; D 41-0; I 1-0, 7/1/05, Obama Voted Yea; H.R. 2419, CQ Vote #321: Adopted 84-4: R 48-2; D 35-2; I 1-0, 11/14/05, Obama Voted Yea)–from the McCain campaign.]
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/08/obama_hands_mccain_radioactive.html
PUMAs are already incensed about Iowa’s role in the delegate count. Flicking gravel at them isn’t going to help! Of course, Clinton voted for the Farm Bill as well, but she certainly wouldn’t have led an argument against McCain like that. She would have extolled the virtues and what McCain voted against. In positioning himself against Iowa, and corn subsidies, McCain hits that nerve over the price of milk and beef. He pushes on the button of shore drilling. (NO!!!)
If this were a better controlled congress, maybe we wouldn’t have tried to gerrymander energy and food issues together. Even though use of the land has to be adjudicated, it seems to me that trying to lump them into the same thing will lead to conflicts rather than balanced decisions. It was a very hard fought bill. All McCain has to do is wait for these opportunities to present his case.
Harry(Cor.) Reid gets the problem, but eventually you have to be able to explain your vote, not pretend you didn’t make it.
Can Nevada bury Yucca Mountain?
Feature story – From the July 02, 2001 issue of High Country News
by Jon Christensen
Grab and Keel 
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