McCain- Homer Simpson Without the Donut

I'm guessing it was excessive exposure to either radiation or George Bush, but Senator John McCain's comments from inside a nuclear power plant in Michigan are so cracked-brained that I fear some loose gamma rays are doing to McCain's gray matter what they did to Homer Simpson's.
On Tuesday, the presumptive Republican candidate descended into the colon of a nuke to declare we need to build 45 new nuclear plants - that this is the way out of our energy crisis. Nuclear power, declared the senator, is a "safe, efficient [and] inexpensive" alternative to oil.
Really? We can argue all day about whether nuclear plants are safe (they aren't ­period). But there can be no argument whatsoever that these giant radioactive tea-kettles are breathtakingly expensive.

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