Holy cognitive dissonance, Batman! Listen to this, from E&E (sub rqd):

Of the two Republicans on the subcommittee, Sen. Johnny Isakson (Ga.), repeated his call to use the [Lieberman-Warner] legislation for the promotion of nuclear power. …

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Isakson said he would likely miss the subcommittee markup to attend a White House meeting on the Southeastern drought scheduled at the same time with the governors of Alabama, Florida and Georgia.

"There’s only one thing more important to me than that markup, and that’s my state running out of water," he said.

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[Jon Stewart style triple-take]

The guy would like to be there to hump for subsidies for the most water-intensive source of electricity on the planet, but he can’t because … his state is being crippled by drought.

I swear, sometimes — and this is particularly true for purported conservatives — the love of nuclear power is sui generis. It just is, a primordial constant, complete in itself, floating free of economic or environmental justification, immune to contrary fact or principle. I really don’t get it.

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