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The Pushmi-Pullyu of Nuclear Politics

Posted on July 03, 2008

Not here, where roses bloom and politics is the sport of gentlemen /snark , but Germany. We noted the other day (scroll down lots of good reading) that Germany was experiencing some buyers remorse over its decision to pull the plug on nuclear energy and that the prime minister, Angela Merkel, was beginning to signal a turnabout in policy. But politics is politics. Merkel s party, the Christian Democrats, are roughly comparable to America s Republicans that is, conservative leaning - and the Social Democrats to Democrats liberal leaning, perhaps a bit more toward classical...

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