The media just loves Senator John McCain when he’s bashing his own party or helping the Left pass some sort of law opposed by the rest of the Republican Party.  Somehow he just never gets that same level of press when he says stuff like this (emphasis added):

The United States needs to overcome its fear of nuclear power and embrace the technology as a way to wean itself from fossil fuels, Sen. John McCain told an audience in Manchester yesterday.

Nuclear power "is safe. The technology is here," McCain said, speaking to a crowd of about 200 at a breakfast hosted by The New Hampshire Federation of Republican Women. "It’s a NIMBY (not in my backyard) problem, and a waste-disposal problem. It is not a technological problem."

McCain pointed to France, which draws more than three-quarters of its power from nuclear plants, and Russia, which has plans to build 40 new plants, as examples. "We’ve got to get over it, get over Three Mile Island," he said, referring to the 1979 accident at a Pennsylvania nuclear power plant.

Gee, wonder why that’s not all over the nightly news huh?  Wonder Boy McCain gives the big Thumbs Up for Nukes!  No, not going to see that anytime soon.

Opposing nuclear anything has been bedrock liberal dogma since the late 1960’s and at least with nuclear power it is a battle that they believe they have won at home.  Our biased liberal press isn’t about to allow anyone, not even one of their favorite blowhards, to make a dent in that accomplishment.  Now if he came out and talked about how we need to replace all the oil power with windmills or solar power…. well then you’d see his smiling talking head all over the news.  THAT is news, according to our MSM elite, that your average American needs to hear… because the MSM elite know that is where we need to go.  They’ve already decided the proper path to fill all of our energy needs you see, being the pre-eminent experts on everything that they are.

Some of us are stubborn though.  Insist on using that chunk of flesh behind our eyes and between the ears for ourselves.  Its kind of fun… they should try it some time.

Anyway, Senator McCain’s on the right side of this one (pun intended).  Nuclear power technology is now quite advanced and safe.  Nuclear reclamation technology is able to recover the vast majority of spent fuel so storage need not be an issue anymore.  There just aren’t any rational reasons to oppose nuclear power anymore and there are overpowering reasons driving us to need it.