Obviously, that was not the title of the article in the WaPo.
Constellation Energy spokesman Larry McDonnell said that the administration's loan guarantee terms were "unworkable" and that Constellation had told the Energy Department "we can't move forward."
Obama administration officials said that they had proposed terms consistent with their fiduciary duty. "We want to see this industry go forward, but we also have a duty to protect the taxpayers' money," one senior administration official said. We want to go forward, but only if it costs so much no one will ever build it.
She said that the Calvert Cliffs reactor was "of monumental importance to Maryland" and would have generated 4,000 new jobs. Jobs and low-cost reliable energy. Who needs that?
Separately, administration officials said they had approved a $1.06 billion loan guarantee for an Oregon wind farm, the world's largest, after project developers waged a vigorous lobbying campaign to bring the year-long application process to a conclusion. Now wind farms, that's something Obama can get behind!
The wind project, known as Shepherds Flat, will provide 400 jobs, 845 megawatts of power and avoid emissions of 1.2 million tons of carbon annually. So the nuke offered ten times the jobs, with five or ten times the power, meaning five-to-ten times as much carbon saved. And no harm to migratory birds, either!
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The Calvert Cliffs reactor would have powered Maryland and the BosWash Corridor.
[Arab News] President Barack B.O. Obama, fighting to fend off a major political embarrassment, labored in his adopted home state to build a fire of enthusiasm for the Democratic candidate who is running in a close race to take the president's old Senate seat from Illinois.
A loss for Democrat Alexi Giannoulias, now the Illinois state treasurer, would rub salt in what already was expected to be a deep political wound for the president in the Nov. 2 congressional election. Democrats are widely expected to lose their majority in the House of Representatives and, perhaps, the Senate.
"All my friends in the house!" Obama shouted to cheers at the Drake Hotel at the first of two campaign events expected to net more than $750,000 for Giannoulias and other Democratic Senate campaigns.
"I hope you're fired up in these last few weeks," he said. "It's up to you to defy the conventional wisdom once again."
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Hr just doesn't know what truth is, does he?
Obullshit Backing is the kiss of death politically.
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please REMEMBER the election LAW in Illinois:
IF YOU DO NOT VOTE ON EVERY RACE AND ISSUE ON YOUR BALLOT - THE FUCKERS THROW IT OUT!
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I'm not sure that's correct. I live in Illinois.
About the Senate race: it's too bad Kirk is such a squish and a weak candidate, the Pubs could be leading this one by 20 points.
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Steve in the 2000 election several hundred thousand ballots were disqualified as not every position was marked. Our own equiv. of hanging chad.
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At the Drake? Yeah, that's a real "working peoples" bastion...
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