Isn’t it funny how his numbers go up when the Senate is in recess and nobody sees him, yet he plummets back downward once we all hear him bloviate again?
And do you remember that old meme that Western KY is Mitch McConnell’s “base”.
That would be a 20% drop in his approval rating over one month.
And a 25% increase in his disapproval over one month.
Wow.
Was Western KY offended by Mitch McConnell trying to portray himself as some kind of hero in the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant debacle? I’m betting that they knew better. Perhaps you should stop insulting the intelligence of your constituents, Mitch? Eh?
Eyes on the Prize. Ditch Mitch.
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April 28th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Since we’re having fun with polls, let’s look at how recently elected Democratic Governors are doing…
Iowa, Kentucky, and Mass. … Oh, they’re all in the tanks. Beshear’s actually the most popular at a negative 9 in disapproval/approval rating.
Don’t forget the close bonds between Obama and Mass Gov. Patrick (Obama even “borrows” his words”) have lead to McCain being within the margin of error there against Obama.
I guess that pretty much settles that Romney is McCain’s running mate (what will the Dems do without Mass’s 12 electorial votes? Oh yeah, lose by 15 e.v’s).
April 28th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Kentucky has some of the most racist people, they still use the N word when they talk about Obama.
the republican have been in control of the president and congress how many years of the last eight! what have they done?look what a mess they will leave
look what a mess the last R governor Fletcher left the state in.. the red
April 28th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
I’ve been campaigning in many counties in the State, and I gave a speech to the Democratic Woman’s Club in Lincoln County earlier tonight. I have not heard anyone use the N word while referring to Obama, not in Kentucky and not anywhere. I know the Daily Kos pans Kentucky and West Virginia badly, but I’m proud to be a Kentuckian, and proud to be an Appalachian. It’s a difficult word to spell. To me, it looks like neither candidate will have a majority of the delegate votes going into the national Democratic Convention. I guess we will have to watch the balloting to see who wins. Kenneth Stepp, a Democratic candidate, U.S. Senate, KY.
April 29th, 2008 at 6:24 am
it only took 25 years nice work mitch!!!
The results of Harding’s posthumous tests, conducted as part of a lawsuit in 1983 but never published, offer the strongest corroboration to date of hazardous conditions inside the Paducah plantstrongest corroboration to date of hazardous conditions inside the uranium , where workers labored for decades in a haze of radioactive dust that was sometimes laced with deadly plutonium.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/daily/aug
April 29th, 2008 at 6:28 am
post want let you use link
http://tinyurl.com/6qjrmc
April 29th, 2008 at 12:24 pm
Kilowat,
I thought the Democrats have had control in Congress. Maybe I am wrong about that.
April 29th, 2008 at 12:38 pm
they did in 2006 but not enough to over ride a veto
May 1st, 2008 at 7:56 am
Do any of you on this post have any idea what Senator McConnel and Congressman Whitfield have done and are continuing to do on behalf of the past and present workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant? Maybe you well informed citizens on this blog should do some research with people who worked at the plant and who are still working at good paying jobs. The sick nuclear workers program came about due to their fighting for this program. And although it is not perfect in everyone’s eyes where would these workers and their families be without it! And I am positive that if you go to the PGDP’s current work force of 1200+ they will be glad to tell you they are happy to have their good paying jobs with benefits.If it were nor the efforts of Senator McConnel and Congressman Whitfield these jobs would have already left Western KY. If you are looking for someone to blame for any problems with the PGDP look back to Wendall Ford and anyone who bought into the privitization act. And if we do not stay focused and support Senator McConnel and Congressman Whitfield we will be turning the Nuclear Industry over to two other foreign countries, France and Russia. Think about this an industry we developed and had in our complete control!!! Will be outsourced for the enriched uranium and we will be at the mercy of these two countries to purchase fuel for our nuclear power plants. Do you realize 20 percent of our electricity is generated by nuclear power right now!!!Is that what we need in this country to be depedant on another foreign country for another source of our energy. Remeber not too long ago Russia was our enemy. Does that help you sleep at nught? Personally it keeps me awake!
May 1st, 2008 at 10:40 am
why did it take some 25 years after Joe Harding died ?
In September of 1999, Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, came to Paducah and presented her with the Secretary’s Gold Medal, saying that she had put a face on the Cold War. Clara Harding
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globalsecurity.org/wmd/library/congress/2000_h/hard0921.htm
Evidence Mounts in Paducah
By Joby Warrick
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, August 22, 1999; Page A1
The exhumed bones of a long-dead uranium worker have given a powerful boost to current employees’ claims of dangerous exposures inside a government-owned Kentucky plant that supplied radioactive fuel for the nation’s nuclear bombs.
The long-overlooked medical evidence from the case of Joseph Harding suggests that for some workers radiation doses at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant were far higher than previously believed, and may have been dozens of times above federal limits, according to one analysis of the data.
The hazards for uranium workers are further underscored by unpublished research from a sister plant in Tennessee. A draft study of workers at the K-25 plant in Oak Ridge shows unusually high death rates for former uranium workers, as well as sharply higher rates of lung and bone cancers.
The results of Harding’s posthumous tests, conducted as part of a lawsuit in 1983 but never published, offer the strongest corroboration to date of hazardous conditions inside the Paducah plantstrongest corroboration to date of hazardous conditions inside the uranium , where workers labored for decades in a haze of radioactive dust that was sometimes laced with deadly plutonium.
“Uranium content of the bone was far in excess of normal expectations,” wrote Alice Stewart, an internationally known British researcher who reviewed the results of laboratory tests of Harding’s remains for his estate. “The terminal finding overrules all earlier impressions [from U.S. government officials] of NO internal depositions of uranium.”
Lab technicians were unaware of the presence of plutonium at the plant and did not test for it. Plutonium is about 100,000 times more radioactive per gram than uranium and can cause cancer if inhaled in microscopic amounts. Workers only recently learned that plutonium and other highly radioactive metals entered the plant in contaminated uranium shipments from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s.
The Department of Energy has launched an extensive investigation into claims of worker exposures at the Paducah plant as well as the K-25 plant and a third facility in Ohio. While the department had not evaluated the results of Harding’s bone tests as of last week, agency officials said it is now clear that uranium workers were not properly protected until at least 1990, when new safety guidelines were implemented.
“This reaffirms our decision to get out of the business of fighting sick workers,” David Michaels, assistant secretary for environment, safety and health, said in an interview Friday. “This case is an example of how the DOE placed mission and secrecy in a paramount position in the past. Right now, we should be bending over backward to help those workers who helped win the Cold War for us.”
Both the Paducah and K-25 plants were owned by the federal government and operated by the same group of corporate contractors: Union Carbide from the 1950s to the early 1980s, followed by Martin Marietta and Lockheed Martin Corp.
The latter two are the targets of a lawsuit filed by a group of current employees who allege unsafe working conditions and environmental contamination. Former workers also have alleged that radiation monitoring equipment at the Paducah plant was defective; in some cases, they say, “film” badges used to monitor exposures contained no film.
“The dose evidence corroborates our allegations that the health physics program at Paducah has been essentially nonexistent,” said Thomas Cochran, nuclear program director at the Natural Resources Defense Council, which joined workers in the lawsuit. “The contractors have been operating in callous disregard for the health and safety of the work force.”
Harding, an 18-year veteran plant worker who died of cancer in 1980, was hailed last week by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson as a “hero of the Cold War.” But for the nine years before his death his claims of radiation exposure were vigorously challenged by contractors and Energy Department officials, who said conditions in the plant were safe.
The department disputed Harding’s allegations – verified years later by other workers – of a dense fog of uranium dust and smoke that would cling to workers’ skin and coat their throats and teeth. A department study in 1981 attributed Harding’s death to a combination of smoking and eating country ham.
May 1st, 2008 at 10:56 am
copy and paste
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