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3.21.2007

 

Random thoughts

... Senate President Pro Tem is known for his ability to come up with snappy sentences that usually involve some sort of analogy. At a news conference today on health care, he got that look on his face like he was just about to launch one of those. Sitting next to him, House Speaker Gaye Symington developed a smirk that indicated she thought one of Shumlin's lines was coming. Then it didn't quite come out in one neat package. Something about people claiming to see catamounts in the woods, and if the governor takes money away from the Catamount Health Plan - as Shumlin claims he's doing - then this catamount too will never be seen. Instead of being snappy, it oozed out like mud. Just goes to show you that he doesn't have those lines all worked out by the time he gets to work each day.

... The House was just settling in for a long debate on physician-assisted death today, when Symington asked the usual question about whether members were ready to vote on the bill, which she expected would be met by a member or two or more rising to be heard on the matter. Symington looked up, saw no one standing and balked in surprise at the possibility that there would be no debate on this. Everybody laughed. Of course, there was then four hours of debate. It just took a second for the first one to step forward.

... Vermont Public Interest Research Group was having a 35th birthday party for the Vermont Yankee nuclear power plant today, with a cake in the Statehouse. This was their way of noting its advanced age and strongly hinting that it was time to retire it. On his way out, VPIRG executive director Paul Burns was carrying a piece of the cake in a Tupperware-style container. It struck me that the piece of cake was in a sort of dry cask storage.

- Terri Hallenbeck

Comments:
Shumlin's one-liner about catamounts was interupted by thoughts of a 20-something tigress from Burlington. He needs to get his mind out of the House and leave his willie at home.
 
Another Republican who is more concerned about what other people are doing with their private parts than about sound public policy ...
 
Yeah, sure.... while same guy complaining about sound bites vs. sound policy is spending more of his time blundering his own sound bites...
 
Vermont Yankee has provided jobs and safe, clean energy for Vermonters for 35 years. VPIRG has enriched a bunch of left-wing lawyers and prevented countless good jobs for Vermonters from ever seeing the light of day. Guess we better close down Vt. Yankee - that seems to be the "Vermont way" now-a-days!
 
Jobs for 35 years

and

NUCLEAR WASTE for 500,000 years !!

Wahoo!!
 
Unfortunately, the toxic waste being produced at VY is nearly as harmful as the toxic waste being spewed out of Bubba's orafices.
 
typical democrat "tolerance" of other peoples points of view
 
very interesting roll-call on doctor-assisted death yesterday - only 2 Republicans (Hube and Komline) voted for the bill, but they are two of the more influential R's in the House, and more than 30 Dems voted no, including several important members such as Ancel and Obie. It's interesting to see how people vote when partisanship is not a factor.
 
FACT: more people have died in the back seat of Ted Kennedy's car than in all nuclear plants in the U.S. Why don't we build a toxic waste dump in Burlington? It would give all of the hippie protesters enough to do for 20 years, and maybe clean up the infestation on Church Street.
 
The best place for our toxic waste is NEK.
 
Let's make a deal - to make Bubba happy, Vermont won't vote for Ted Kennedy and to make actual thinking people happy we won't store toxic nuclear waste on the banks of the Connetticut River.
 
In the end, Shumlin will vote to keep VY. All that radiation in Windham County has had an appreciable impact on the minds of voters there. When they aren't glowing in the dark, they're pulling the D lever all the way down, along with the rest of the zombies.
 
He can't afford to do anything else if he wants higher office.
 
VT Yankee's dry cask storange can be used to serve two beneficial purposes: 1) store nuclear waste; and 2) host the state's Republican party headquarters. To lure the GOP, we'll make it tax-free. The state, though, needs to limit its own GOP liability to $10; not unlike that of VT Yankee if things go bad.

The benefits would far outweigh the consequences in this case.
 
Zuckerman for Governor - let the progressive solve the Vermont Yankee issue.
 
Here, here for Zuckerman!
 
You better get ready for Shumlin.
 
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