Approval of Congress Hits Four-Year High

[Skjellyfetti]

http://www.gallup.com/poll/116530/Appro ... -Dems.aspx





And 39% is above average. Average is 35%.

[dbackjon]

Nice!!

[TwinTownBisonFan]

turns out... doing something is preferred by Americans... who knew?

[travelinman67]

Nice train...but, Jon...aren't you generally the caboose?

[dbackjon]

Nice train...but, Jon...aren't you generally the caboose?

Depends on the engineer

[Gil Dobie]

turns out... doing something is preferred by Americans... who knew?

Doing something is preferred by 39% vs 61%

I would have preferred they did something better than what they did.

[dbackjon]

turns out... doing something is preferred by Americans... who knew?

I would have preferred they did something better than what they did.

Such as?

[TwinTownBisonFan]

turns out... doing something is preferred by Americans... who knew?

Doing something is preferred by 39% vs 61%

I would have preferred they did something better than what they did.

doing something... 39
doing nothing... 19

i'll take a 20% improvement in 50 days.

[travelinman67]

turns out... doing something is preferred by Americans... who knew?

Doing something is preferred by 39% vs 61%

I would have preferred they did something better than what they did.

Yeah...that 61% disapproval rating is something to be proud of...

[Gil Dobie]

I would have preferred they did something better than what they did.

Such as?

More stimulus for the private citizens, such as larger tax breaks. Breaks on heating and cooling because the energy taxes will increase cost of energy for everyone, not just the unions and government jobs. The Union and government workers can afford the increases because their jobs and benefits have been saved for now. Cut spending would be another good idea. Get some funding for nuclear energy and developing uses for nuclear waste.

[clenz]

Doing something is preferred by 39% vs 61%

I would have preferred they did something better than what they did.

Yeah...that 61% disapproval rating is something to be proud of...

Shhhh that is a liberal quote

[travelinman67]

Get some funding for nuclear energy and developing uses for nuclear waste.

Nuclear Energy is dead under the Obama Administration. ObaMao just erased 26 years of work to resolve the nuclear waste disposal problem.

Sources: Obama cuts funds for Nevada nuclear dump

Thursday, February 26, 2009
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking the first step toward blocking a nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain by slashing money for the program in his first budget, according to congressional sources.

Obama's budget to be announced Thursday will eliminate virtually all funding for the Yucca project with the exception of money needed for license applications submitted last year to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

"The Yucca Mountain program will be scaled back to those costs necessary to answer inquiries from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission while the administration devises a new strategy toward nuclear-waste disposal," the Energy Department will say as part of the budget document, said the sources, who asked not to be identified because the document had not been made public.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who has fought the Yucca dump for years, said Obama's decision to cut funding "represents our most significant victory to date in our battle to protect Nevada from becoming the country's toxic wasteland."

The site at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, has been under consideration for a quarter-century, although Nevada officials have argued that the volcanic ridge line is not the most suitable place to store 70,000 tons of reactor waste from commercial power plants.

Obama during his presidential campaign said Yucca Mountain has not been shown to be the best site based on the science, and he promised to review the project.

Earlier this week, House and Senate Democrats cut Yucca Mountain funding for the remainder of this fiscal year to $288 million, the lowest in recent years. Obama is not expected to provide a specific funding level in his budget, which instead will provide a general outline of spending for the 2010 fiscal year beginning in October.

By cutting the waste program, said Reid in a statement, Obama has taken "a critical first step toward fulfilling his promise to end the Yucca Mountain project ... President Obama recognizes that the proposed dump threatens the health and safety of Nevadans and millions of Americans."

Obama is expected to establish a commission to examine alternatives to Yucca Mountain, even as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission continues to consider the license application for the waste repository that was submitted by the Bush administration last year.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said he has no plans to withdraw the license application, a move that could draw lawsuits from the nuclear industry.

The NRC has up to four years to review the application. The Bush administration had hoped to have the Yucca dump available for waste shipments in 2020.

In a report to Congress in December, the Bush administration dismissed suggestions that reactor waste be kept at temporary storage sites at government facilities, an option that Obama has suggested. To keep waste in temporary storage Congress would have to change the 1982 nuclear-waste law that cited Yucca Mountain as the only future waste repository.

The Obama Adminsitration will not offer any waste disposal alternatives that are viable or could be implemented within the next two decades...

...this is just more of the same Dem obstruct prosperity, destroy America program.

[Skjellyfetti]

Get some funding for nuclear energy and developing uses for nuclear waste.

Nuclear Energy is dead under the Obama Administration. ObaMao just erased 26 years of work to resolve the nuclear waste disposal problem.

Sources: Obama cuts funds for Nevada nuclear dump

Thursday, February 26, 2009
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking the first step toward blocking a nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain by slashing money for the program in his first budget, according to congressional sources.

Obama's budget to be announced Thursday will eliminate virtually all funding for the Yucca project with the exception of money needed for license applications submitted last year to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

"The Yucca Mountain program will be scaled back to those costs necessary to answer inquiries from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission while the administration devises a new strategy toward nuclear-waste disposal," the Energy Department will say as part of the budget document, said the sources, who asked not to be identified because the document had not been made public.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who has fought the Yucca dump for years, said Obama's decision to cut funding "represents our most significant victory to date in our battle to protect Nevada from becoming the country's toxic wasteland."

The site at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, has been under consideration for a quarter-century, although Nevada officials have argued that the volcanic ridge line is not the most suitable place to store 70,000 tons of reactor waste from commercial power plants.

Obama during his presidential campaign said Yucca Mountain has not been shown to be the best site based on the science, and he promised to review the project.

Earlier this week, House and Senate Democrats cut Yucca Mountain funding for the remainder of this fiscal year to $288 million, the lowest in recent years. Obama is not expected to provide a specific funding level in his budget, which instead will provide a general outline of spending for the 2010 fiscal year beginning in October.

By cutting the waste program, said Reid in a statement, Obama has taken "a critical first step toward fulfilling his promise to end the Yucca Mountain project ... President Obama recognizes that the proposed dump threatens the health and safety of Nevadans and millions of Americans."

Obama is expected to establish a commission to examine alternatives to Yucca Mountain, even as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission continues to consider the license application for the waste repository that was submitted by the Bush administration last year.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said he has no plans to withdraw the license application, a move that could draw lawsuits from the nuclear industry.

The NRC has up to four years to review the application. The Bush administration had hoped to have the Yucca dump available for waste shipments in 2020.

In a report to Congress in December, the Bush administration dismissed suggestions that reactor waste be kept at temporary storage sites at government facilities, an option that Obama has suggested. To keep waste in temporary storage Congress would have to change the 1982 nuclear-waste law that cited Yucca Mountain as the only future waste repository.

The Obama Adminsitration will not offer any waste disposal alternatives that are viable or could be implemented within the next two decades...

...this is just more of the same Dem obstruct prosperity, destroy America program.

Good for Obama!

We can put this in the "campaign promises kept" category.

Could you guarantee the waste stored at Yucca mountain would remain safe for one million years? Obama wasn't comfortable doing that, obviously... and I agree with him.

Until we figure out better ways to store nuclear waste... the best solution to the question of "what do we do with it" is to not make any more.

Also, nice work trying to derail the thread. Just can't stand to see that sharp 20 point jump as Obama takes office, can you?

[slycat]

Get some funding for nuclear energy and developing uses for nuclear waste.

Nuclear Energy is dead under the Obama Administration. ObaMao just erased 26 years of work to resolve the nuclear waste disposal problem.

Sources: Obama cuts funds for Nevada nuclear dump

Thursday, February 26, 2009
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama is taking the first step toward blocking a nuclear waste dump at Nevada's Yucca Mountain by slashing money for the program in his first budget, according to congressional sources.

Obama's budget to be announced Thursday will eliminate virtually all funding for the Yucca project with the exception of money needed for license applications submitted last year to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission.

"The Yucca Mountain program will be scaled back to those costs necessary to answer inquiries from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission while the administration devises a new strategy toward nuclear-waste disposal," the Energy Department will say as part of the budget document, said the sources, who asked not to be identified because the document had not been made public.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, who has fought the Yucca dump for years, said Obama's decision to cut funding "represents our most significant victory to date in our battle to protect Nevada from becoming the country's toxic wasteland."

The site at Yucca Mountain, 90 miles northwest of Las Vegas, has been under consideration for a quarter-century, although Nevada officials have argued that the volcanic ridge line is not the most suitable place to store 70,000 tons of reactor waste from commercial power plants.

Obama during his presidential campaign said Yucca Mountain has not been shown to be the best site based on the science, and he promised to review the project.

Earlier this week, House and Senate Democrats cut Yucca Mountain funding for the remainder of this fiscal year to $288 million, the lowest in recent years. Obama is not expected to provide a specific funding level in his budget, which instead will provide a general outline of spending for the 2010 fiscal year beginning in October.

By cutting the waste program, said Reid in a statement, Obama has taken "a critical first step toward fulfilling his promise to end the Yucca Mountain project ... President Obama recognizes that the proposed dump threatens the health and safety of Nevadans and millions of Americans."

Obama is expected to establish a commission to examine alternatives to Yucca Mountain, even as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission continues to consider the license application for the waste repository that was submitted by the Bush administration last year.

Energy Secretary Steven Chu has said he has no plans to withdraw the license application, a move that could draw lawsuits from the nuclear industry.

The NRC has up to four years to review the application. The Bush administration had hoped to have the Yucca dump available for waste shipments in 2020.

In a report to Congress in December, the Bush administration dismissed suggestions that reactor waste be kept at temporary storage sites at government facilities, an option that Obama has suggested. To keep waste in temporary storage Congress would have to change the 1982 nuclear-waste law that cited Yucca Mountain as the only future waste repository.

The Obama Adminsitration will not offer any waste disposal alternatives that are viable or could be implemented within the next two decades...

...this is just more of the same Dem obstruct prosperity, destroy America program.

And yet one is moving full steam ahead in Andrews, TX.

[Gil Dobie]

Until we figure out better ways to store nuclear waste... the best solution to the question of "what do we do with it" is to not make any more.

If we don't fund it how do we solve it. Like Obama said, we went to the moon in a decade, why not solve the nuclear waste issue in a decade. With a possible change to electric cars, the electrical grid would be useless, and wind can't take care of it alone. Nuclear, combined with other sources will be greatly needed in the future.

[Skjellyfetti]

Until we figure out better ways to store nuclear waste... the best solution to the question of "what do we do with it" is to not make any more.

If we don't fund it how do we solve it. Like Obama said, we went to the moon in a decade, why not solve the nuclear waste issue in a decade. With a possible change to electric cars, the electrical grid would be useless, and wind can't take care of it alone. Nuclear, combined with other sources will be greatly needed in the future.

Responded here:

http://www.championshipsubdivision.com/ ... =10&t=4330

so this thread isn't successfully derailed.

[travelinman67]

And yet one is moving full steam ahead in Andrews, TX.

The Valhi, Inc. facility in Andrews County received final licensing in January, but now faces DOE/NRC review of requests from individual energy corporations seeking to use the facility. Basically, every transfer to the facility requires a lengthy review process as it's a "near surface" disposal facility.

The budget cuts are not a benign action by Congress and the Obama Administration. The Omnibus bill was heavily "edited" with a guiding hand by environmental organizations, cutting essential funding that is required by the Nuclear industry to move forward with licensing and redesign of storage facilities. Here's the press release yesterday by the Nuclear Energy Institute regarding the Omnibus bill cuts...

http://www.nei.org/newsandevents/newsre ... egislation

...“Federal investment in nuclear energy has proven its worth many times over -- as evidenced by record-high levels of electricity production from power plants that are far and away our nation’s leading carbon-free electricity source. The state of the nation’s economy and concerns about greenhouse gas emissions present a powerful argument that monies invested in nuclear energy programs are monies invested wisely.

“Unfortunately, the Nuclear Power 2010 partnership program that is helping to bring advanced-design nuclear plants to the market saw a reduction of nearly $65 million from the budget request of $241 million. Similarly, DOE’s used nuclear fuel management program, with an appropriation of $288.4 million, now stands $206 million beneath the requested level of $494.7 million. Of that total, only $145 million comes from the federal Nuclear Waste Fund that this year alone will take in more than $750 million from ratepayers for the express purpose of financing this program.

“This diversion of funds from DOE’s used fuel management program is grossly unreasonable, particularly now that DOE has a license application for the Yucca Mountain repository program pending before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The federal government must fulfill its legal responsibility to manage used nuclear fuel. Our belief upon seeing this bill’s disparity between program revenues and expenditures is that Energy Secretary Chu should reduce the fee paid by ratepayers so that annual collections no longer exceed annual expenditures. This seems reasonable given the $22 billion balance in the Nuclear Waste Fund...

[Cap'n Cat]

Glass always half-empty for ya, ain't she, T?

[AZGrizFan]

Nuclear Energy is dead under the Obama Administration. ObaMao just erased 26 years of work to resolve the nuclear waste disposal problem.

Sources: Obama cuts funds for Nevada nuclear dump

Thursday, February 26, 2009
By H. JOSEF HEBERT, Associated Press Writer



The Obama Adminsitration will not offer any waste disposal alternatives that are viable or could be implemented within the next two decades...

...this is just more of the same Dem obstruct prosperity, destroy America program.

Good for Obama!

We can put this in the "campaign promises kept" category.

Could you guarantee the waste stored at Yucca mountain would remain safe for one million years? Obama wasn't comfortable doing that, obviously... and I agree with him.

Until we figure out better ways to store nuclear waste... the best solution to the question of "what do we do with it" is to not make any more.

Also, nice work trying to derail the thread. Just can't stand to see that sharp 20 point jump as Obama takes office, can you?

Weren't you the same guy bashing Bush's 39% approval rating a year ago?

Now we're dancing on rooftops?

[Skjellyfetti]

Weren't you the same guy bashing Bush's 39% approval rating a year ago?

Now we're dancing on rooftops?

39%?? Try a lower number.

And, Congressional approval ratings are historically low... again, the average is 35%. So, the current Congress has an above average approval rating.

I'm not sure what the average presidential approval rating is... but, I'd be willing to wager it's much more than 25%.

[AZGrizFan]

Weren't you the same guy bashing Bush's 39% approval rating a year ago?

Now we're dancing on rooftops?

39%?? Try a lower number.

And, Congressional approval ratings are historically low... again, the average is 35%. So, the current Congress has an above average approval rating.

I'm not sure what the average presidential approval rating is... but, I'd be willing to wager it's much more than 25%.

I knew that'd be your comeback....but you know me, I'm too lazy to actually look up the rating from a year ago.

[Cap'n Cat]

39%?? Try a lower number.

And, Congressional approval ratings are historically low... again, the average is 35%. So, the current Congress has an above average approval rating.

I'm not sure what the average presidential approval rating is... but, I'd be willing to wager it's much more than 25%.

I knew that'd be your comeback....but you know me, I'm too lazy to actually look up the rating from a year ago.

And you're too ugly to be in the company of the very exquisitely handsome Cap'n Cat.

Pshaw.