Doanld J. Trump May Hand Sarah Palin The Keys to Nation’s Public Lands, Wildlife

ewg.org/enviroblog ^ | Monday, November 14, 2016 | By Alex Formuzis, Sr VP Communications and Strategic Campaigns

[drewh]

"Drill, baby, drill!”

During her bid for vice president in 2008, that was Sarah Palin's crowd-pleasing chant promoting her energy policy. Now the pithy catchphrase – and the former Alaska governor herself – could make a comeback.

News reports say Palin is on President-elect Donald Trump's short list to head the Interior Department. As secretary of the interior, she'd be in charge of overseeing oil drilling, uranium mining and other energy extraction on 500 million acres of public land, including iconic national parks like the Grand Canyon.

The pro-mining policies Trump and Palin could be expected to bring to Interior would mean EWG and other public land advocates would have to resume a fight we thought the Obama administration settled in 2012.

Under President George W. Bush, the Interior Department tried to open up uranium mines near the south rim of the Canyon. It was a scheme that even The Arizona Republic, once a champion of the so-called “Wise Use” movement, denounced.

If Trump does make moves to open up uranium mining around the Grand Canyon, Palin wouldn't stand in his way, judging from her quip in 2011 about opening the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling: “If a caribou needs to be sacrificed for the sake of energy independence, I say, ‘Mr. Caribou, maybe you need to take one for the team.’”

In a few months, she could be leading the team.

[TLI]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/724170/posts

THAT ought to keep her busy for a few months...

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[catnipman]

Perfect choice. Very qualified, very capable, understands the issues facing Westerners. AND would cause many more of these:

[LaineyDee]

Don’t have any family left.

I'm sorry. Hang out around here then.....we'll all harrass you and make you feel like family. Deal? :)

[MyDogAteMyBallot]

"I can see splody heads from my front porch..." 😂

[catnipman]

“but she never seemed to handle the press or limelight well. I fear the pressure would be too much.”

Fortunately, SecInterior doesn’t spend a lot of time dealing with the press. Can you even NAME obama’s SecInterior? And if so, have you ever SEEN them on TV? Not to mention, Sec Palin could always get a slick official spokesperson to handle those parts of her duties if she so desired.

[dragnet2]

Liberals and extreme leftist are having serious issues. Demands for grief counselors are at an all time high.

Some like this individual above have resorted to banging their heads against fences and walls. ABC is calling it an epidemic.

[Elsie]

We did at Jarbidge!

[ASA Vet]

How about Gen. Michael T Flynn as Director of National Intelligence (NDI)? That would be a good pick.

[Grampa Dave]

I hope she hangs dead dear caribou and moose heads in her office with a stuffed Grizzly and Polar Bear fighting each other, and a wolf rug on the floor.

[Boardwalk]

Oh please Sarah has Skills!

[Colorado Doug]

Please! Now make Ted Nugent head of BATF!

LOL LOL I love it!

[AFreeBird]

Been here a while. So, yea. :-)

[Grampa Dave]

BOL!

You are really trying to drive the liberal weenies into irreversible depression.

May you succeed.

[editor-surveyor]

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Sounds great to me!

We definitely need to terminate all motorized travel restrictions on federal land.
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[Grampa Dave]

“I can see splody heads from my front porch...., and I can hear them splodying while sitting on my Lazy Boy in our family room.

[editor-surveyor]

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I second that motion!
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[TheNext]

Do not eliminate DOE & DOE & EPA. Leave Palin as the head with a small staff. Cut personnel & budget for all below.

Leave Palin to attack anybody who tries to revive the Depts.

You need a guard on duty. Liberty needs a guard to destroy those who create big govt.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

I hope she hangs a dead dear head in her office.

But a live one would be, well....messy.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

They should put whatever is left of the EPA in Interior.

Every state has one....Kill it!

Bulldoze the building(s).

[Boardwalk]

Do the opposite.