Webb’s Foot-in-mouth disease: in remission?

My junior Senator suddenly sounds healthy (J.R. at Bearing Drift):

How did I miss this last week? Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA), when at a book signing in Arlington, made comments advocating for nuclear and coal as alternative energy sources. This is sure to get the left in a twist.

First nuclear:

“We need to look at nuclear. We need to have a sensible nuclear policy. We haven’t built a nuclear power plant in this country in 30 years. Technology’s changed a lot in the last 30 years. You know when I was saying this two years ago, as some people in this room know – there were people who were Democrats whose hair would get on fire when I started talking about nuclear. But it’s sensible.
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“It’s safe when it’s done right. France has shown us that. Japan has shown us that. It has to be done right, but it’s environmentally friendly.”

Then, coal:

“In terms of coal, we need to find technological solutions – and they’re available – that will go after carbon dioxide emissions and these sorts of things,” Webb said. “When we were doing the discussion of global warming, one of the things I started saying to my staff was … ‘Somewhere out there, in a lab at MIT, or Cal-Tech or George Mason – there is somebody out there who has figured out how to break apart a carbon dioxide molecule and put a carbon bi-product and oxygen going up in the air and that person is going to make a billion dollars and will help us solve this problem.’”

Now, if we can just get him to recognize that off-shore drilling has withstood hurricanes and the climate of the North Sea without any environmental threat, keeping the fjods and beaches as pristine as they ever were, we’d be all set.

Easy, now, J.R.  Foot-in-mouth is a terrible disease; as far as I know, there have been no instances of a full recovery.  Jim Webb has a long way to go before he’s healthy again; best to just wish him well for now.