On Tuesday, Fox News printed This Article on Congressman Edward Markey (D-MA) pleasing in desperation for the Obama Administration to pass a law that would provide everyone within a 10 mile radius of a nuclear power plant Potassium Iodide pills. This pills help prevent Thyroid cancer should small to moderate doses of radiation be absorbed.
The absurdity of the law, and the idea of Markey's, is that evacuation is not his first choice for dealing with radiation leakage from a nuke plant, but rather taking a pill and staying to eat some glow in the dark food apparently.
And because he brings it up, I will have to make the correlation to the fact that this policy seemed vaguely familiar to what happened during Katrina and the mentality afterwards. The people somehow had a right to stay where they were come hurricane, tornado, or killer asteroid, and it is up to the government to ensure the implementation of this right, apparently this time by doling out little pills.
Markey originally wrote to Obama in December 2009 urging him to implement the law, but Holdren's office upheld the Bush administration's position in a letter to Markey last July. In his letter, Markey argued that evacuation and protection from contaminated food "would certainly prove to be woefully inadequate or ineffectual in the face of a major nuclear emergency.
"We need only remember the tragic events following Hurricanes Katrina and Rita -- events for which we had advancing warning," he wrote. "Even with notice, the local and state governments were unable to evacuate effectively, or provide adequate food and water to those who remained behind."
I have to wonder, if even Markey admits that the advanced warning did the people of New Orleans no good, then how much good is millions of dollars on little pills going to do if something completely unexpected happens?
Do you think he has a family member in the Potassium Iodide business, or is he just winning the award for Nanny Of The Month?
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