By J. Robert Smith,American Thinker
Barack Obama has baited a trap for the GOP. The President announced that as a part of his clean energy initiative,he favored building two nuclear reactors at an existing nuclear power facility in Georgia,and would commit $8 billion in loan guarantees to do so. If Senate Republicans,in particular,take the bait,they’ll have been duped into backing the Mr. Obama’s latest scheme to grow the national government into a leviathan —the leviathan that the left and Mr. Obama hanker for.
Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is a pretty wily customer. Though the Senator praised Mr. Obama’s call for the construction of the new nuclear reactors —the first in thirty years,if built —he knows that the President is dangling them to draw the GOP into supporting Mr. Obama’s broader agenda to impose carbon taxes and to sink a lot more taxpayer money into renewable —green —energy development and jobs.
It isn’t Senator McConnell conservatives should fret over. It’s the Senator’s squishier Republican colleagues who are Mr. Obama’s chief target,particularly South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham. The President needs to enlist Senator Graham and a couple of other Republican senators to 1) make a case for bipartisan support for the President’s proposal and 2) give cover to wavering congressional Democrats who like their jobs and bennies and fear that the lack of GOP buy-in jeopardizes their futures.