Laying this off on Clinton and Gore may make you feel good but it doesn't correspond with political reality. Fission can not be sold to the lay-public as they have seen far too many examples of the industry lying to them.
Did you really get the impression that any of this makes me "feel good"? I've alluded to the true nature of the reality of this topic,,, the real 'simple' reason(s) [see two posts back]
... and one would think that with all of your zeal for exercising some control over the anthropogenic contributions to global warming,,, that you might actually see why it is we persist in our exploitation of 'ancient carbonaceous matter' despite its cost(s).
Each of the political parties' answer first to private agendas, the least of which is 'life, a generation or two, hence. The lay public is far and away the easier to sell on fission safety and effectiveness, however, apparently, we must put considerably more effort into educating the educators~