Found the above linked article from Obama’s Hometown Paper The ChicagoTribune. Story by Andrew Follett:
“Chicago Paper Implores Trump To Solve Yucca Mountain Mess Left By Obama”
From the Story[in Part] "…“Obama’s capitulation [to Reid] defied scientific evidence as well as common sense,” the editorial board wrote, criticizing Obama for storing 79,000 tons of nuclear waste in facilities “much less secure and permanent than Yucca Mountain is designed to be” for purely political reasons. The editorial board argued Obama’s policy made “no sense” from a security, safety, or environmental perspective. Instead one easily defensible facility in Nevada, Obama spread waste storage across 34 states.
Nuclear energy advocates have been pushing the federal government for years to open Yucca Mountain.
“President Obama’s kicking the can down the road on Yucca Mountain over two terms was irresponsible on multiple fronts including further mortgaging the US nuclear energy fleet and its future,” David Blee, executive director of the U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure Council (NIC), told The Daily Caller News Foundation…"
Read the entire story at the link above.
The Department of Energy submitted its proposal to build Yucca Mountain in June of 2008, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) determined in 2014 that Yucca met safety standards…"
Obama was in office for eight years, and during that time he did his best to turn America into a second-rate nation. He almost succeded, and he is still trying under the guise of a “community organizer” who has ulterior motives.
That was unacceptable to most in the “flyover” states and some traditionally blue ones.That’s why Trump is now the commander in chief. Liberals are frustrated because of that, but America is headed on a new course that would not have happened under Hillary.
Liberals, unwilling to accept reality, are still whining while people in the red states are celebrating victory. An Obama quote said “Elections have consequences”. They do, and the left refuses to accept them. Time to wake up to reality folks.
My advice to lefties; get on board and accept the destination or get off the train. You lost. Accept reality for a change. Stop trying to destroy The president simply because you disagree with his goals.
If we had treated Obama the way you are treating Trump the excrement would have hit the air distribution system eight years ago.
Take it or leave it. That is my opinion.
Disagreements are welcome as long as they are not personal attacks bashing me for my opinion. This is a railrod forum and should be confined to such, but others prefer to voice their political opinions and should be countered. Both sides have good points but meeting of the minds is hard to come by.
I expect this thread will be locked Friday morning.
I’ve voted in 11 presidential elections. It’s not unusual to see a supporter of a given candidate in tears after a loss - after all, they put their all into the campaign. And that’s not partisan - it happens on both sides.
However, I can’t say as I’ve ever seen counselling sessions, a la what we see when there’s a major tragedy like a mass shooting, as the result of an election.
This was hardly the first time a party has picked the wrong candidate and suffered a loss as a result. Again, it’s not limited to one party. What’s kind of funny is that we aren’t hearing “if she was POTUS…” All we hear is that the current occupant of the office is wrong, pretty mucn no matter what he does.
It’s not the first time a candidate has won the popular vote and lost the electoral vote, either.
As noted, what is disturbing is the current “my way or the highway” attitude by both major parties. “Compromise” now seems to be missing from their dictionaries.
Virtually every vote in Congress seems to be straight down party lines. The content of a bill is of little consequence - “if they’re fur it, we’re agin it…” I suspect that if the same exact bill came up a year later, only brought forth by the other party, the same folks would again vote the “party line,” but in the other direction.
tree68 wrote the following post[in part] 15 hours ago:
"…This was hardly the first time a party has picked the wrong candidate and suffered a loss as a result. Again, it’s not limited to one party. What’s kind of funny is that we aren’t hearing “if she was POTUS…” All we hear is that the current occupant of the office is wrong, pretty mucn no matter what he does.
It’s not the first time a candidate has won the popular vote and lost the electoral vote, either.
As noted, what is disturbing is the current “my way or the highway” attitude by both major parties. “Compromise” now seems to be missing from their dictionaries…"
It sure seems that this Presidential Election cycle has been particularly problematic for both parties. I’ll let some’ others pick the bones’ apart. My own feelings are that both parties are guilty of not picking their strongest candidate. After culling through some 17 or so potential candidates, Mr. Trump was picked because(?)… [… He was the last guy standing(?)—Chutzpah-(?)…].
Mrs. Clinton seemed to have been picked because(?) [… It was her Turn…(?)]; OR, she was or/(was not) the ‘strongest candidate’ (?)that her party could have nominated; noted by her constantly blaming everyone else for her loss(?) [banghead] [2c]
There are a lot of folks in public office who probably shouldn’t be there, at least in the in the opinion of voters in districts other than their own. As for the guy “we” elected - we like him. The problem is always the fellows (or gals) from the other districts.
Ie, our guy is fine. It’s yours that’s the problem…
Witness a congressional district that re-elected their representative shortly after he’d been very publicly convicted of a serious crime…
Considering that most states have gerrymandered their election districts to keep the ‘ruling party’ in control of the most seats based on historical voting patterns within those states - Term limits won’t do anything except put a new name on the same old corruption.
There needs to be serious attention in forming election districts!
Seven North Korean railroad workers heard criticizing a recent missile test by their secretive, sanctions-hit regime were arrested by authorities in Jagang province at the end of last month, sources say.
The workers, members of North Korea’s quasi-military “stormtrooper” construction brigades, had openly questioned the value of the launch, saying that the money spent on weapons tests would be better spent on the country’s crumbling infrastructure, one source told RFA’s Korean Service.
“Seven stormtroopers from Jagang province who were deployed to work on the Hyesan-Samjiyon railroad were arrested and handed over to the Security Department,” the source, a resident of neighboring Yanggang province, told RFA this week.
“They are suspected of slandering the missile launch that was conducted early last month,” RFA’s source said, speaking on condition of anonymity.
Also speaking to RFA, a second source in Yanggang said the men had been drinking and playing cards on March 6 at the house of their supervisor at the Amnokgang (Yalu River) Collective Farm in Yanggang’s Pochon county when they were overheard.
“While they were playing their game, a report of the missile launch was being aired over and over again on television,” the sou