mariner, you are right that the comment about John Ashcroft was something of a gratuitous swipe. Obviously Ashcroft didn’t lose to a dead man but to his widow, and if the timing of Mel Carnahan’s death would have been different Ashcroft might have won (certainly these events proved to be an object lesson for Norm Coleman later). But don’t you think it’s a little odd to appoint someone to head a Cabinet department that he campaigned to abolish? I for one was disappointed in the Bush administration on the energy issue, because I hoped that with Dick Cheney’s interest in nuclear energy we’d have seen at least one nuclear plant begin construction (not just site permitting, which means nothing); I believe that nuclear energy is one of the best ways for our country to achieve energy independence.
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