Rick Perry: ‘I regret’ calling for the elimination of the Energy Department

Washington Times ^ | 01/19/2017 | By Ben Wolfgang

[Texas Fossil]

He has no regret, except for saying it. And his instinct is correct. Close IT. Except for Nuke portion which should be reassigned to another legitimate department.

[notdownwidems]

I guess these moron democrats and never-trumpers don’t realize that, whatever the cabinet nominees say BEFORE they are confirmed is in no way binding AFTER they are in office. Hopefully people like Perry will take a page from the leftist playbook and say what the interrogators want to hear then do what is necessary once they are in there.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Regrets... like with his HPV vaccine mandate.

Yeah, he sure regretted getting caught, didn't he?

[Texas Fossil]

His wife is a nurse (a good one). She nursed my grandfather. I’m sure she convinced him it was a good thing.

I grew up 14 miles from the Perry’s. Know his parents, have never met Rick. He is somewhat younger than I am.

Warts and all, he was a very good Governor of Texas.

He can do a good job of “dealing” with the Department of Energy. He knows well the damage they have done to the Energy production business.

[Texas Fossil]

Nobody working at the DOE have a clue what the “real purpose of the DOE” should be.

That is the Problem.

It is a hole where ComDem maggots strangle an entire industry.

[Texas Fossil]

No, Rick does not “need” the job.

[Texas Fossil]

Yes, and final assembly is in TX.

[Texas Fossil]

bump

[Tax-chick]

Sigh.

[smokingfrog]

Perry couldn’t remember the third Dept. he would eliminate, and I think he was disremembering the EPA. But then Ron Paul suggested there were 5 agencies that should be eliminated and Perry threw in DOE without thinking about it, I would guess. It’s hard to know if he’s just that dense or the drugs he was taking for his back pain making him loopy.

[Georgia Girl 2]

I’m good with Perry running the agency but if we don’t shut some of these agencies down the Dems will just weaponize them again when they get back in power.

[plain talk]

Perry could have easily got out of this trap by simply saying that he is not President and is not in charge of eliminating departments. It is a fact the DoE exists right now and he will ensure it is run efficiently etc etc blah blah blah

[ArtDodger]

I am not worried about Perry, who IS in fact walking back his call for the end of the department. The DOE has many powerful people who benefit by its existence and they are squeezing anyone they can to squeak on the department’s behalf. Like you, I have faith in Trump’s desire to start cutting off the rotted pieces of this government. Perry gave his lip service and that is that.
T minus 25 hours and it will be glorious!

[dadfly]

maybe he’s lying about this too /s.

[fwdude]

...it was a number from Dancing with the stars. Big whoop...

Like I said, soooo embarrassing.

[Cobra64]

These people are pathetic. Doesn’t anyone other than Trump have a spine?

[Grams A]

IMO Perry should not be any part of Trump’s management group. If his appointment is successful, however, we have a whole lot of windmills in Texas that he can move to Blue states. Lots of better candidates.

[RC one]

And, according to DJT, we will be modernizing our nuclear weapons

[Iron Munro]

IMO Perry should not be any part of Trump’s management group. If his appointment is successful, however, we have a whole lot of windmills in Texas that he can move to Blue states. Lots of better candidates.

I was surprised at this nomination as well.

Perhaps the nomination was related to Perry's previously stated views of the Energy Department.

We'll just have to see what Donald had in mind.

[diogenes ghost]

"DOE oversees the procurement of nuclear material for our nukes. They're kinda important."

Exactly so.

WWII nukes, power plants, SS Savannah, USS Nautilus, USS Enterprise and rest of nuclear Navy simply could not have existed prior to the formation of DOE in '77.