Posted on 01/29/2017 9:08:37 AM PST by markomalley
When likely EPA Secretary Scott Pruitt walks into his first day at the office, “He’ll have 16,000 employees working against him,” Sen. James Lankford told a large gathering of libertarian donors Saturday evening.
“And I expect a flood of lawsuits over everything he does.”
Pruitt, who has been nominated to lead the EPA by President Donald Trump, is the attorney general of Lankford’s state, Oklahoma. He has faced fierce opposition from the environmentalist left.
Lankford, who chairs the Senate Oversight Subcommittee on Energy Policy, Health Care and Entitlements, was joined on stage by Sens. Mike Lee and Pat Toomey. Their panel, moderated by Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips, was during a dinner on day one of Charles and David Koch’s libertarian Seminar Network in Palm Springs, Calif.
Held twice a year, the seminars are a gathering place for the Seminar Network, a large group of wealthy donors interested in libertarian causes. This weekend’s seminar, held in the temperate desert outside of Los Angeles, will be the first since Trump’s election and inauguration. The network spent hundreds of millions on advertising and advocacy for limited-government politicians — namely, Republicans — running for the U.S. Senate and the House of Representatives, but notably stayed out of the presidential primaries and race. The network is co-chaired by Charles Koch Institute President Brian Hooks and Mark Holden, general counsel for Koch Industries.
Of the three senators, Lankford was the only tepid backer of Trump, saying he would support the nominee and frequently dodging press requests to weigh in on specific incidents. Toomey withheld endorsement of Trump, though didn’t rule it out, and was a frequent critic. On Election Day, he said he was voting for Trump. Lee, who is a close friend of Sen. Ted Cruz and represents Utah’s quieter, more conflict-adverse Mormon Republican electorate, urged Trump to quit in October and declined to endorse him throughout the election.
Called “A Time to Lead,” the meeting is hosted at the Renaissance Indian Wells Resort and Spa, and is focused on local, grassroots initiatives Americans can take in what Hooks called “the key institutions of society”– “education, community, business and government.”
There are around 550 individuals included in the “principals” network meeting, which requires at least $100,000 donation to the network. In addition to these invited people, there are approximately 150 staff and speakers, Seminar Network spokesman James David told reporters. There is also a larger press presence than any previous conference has allowed.
I’m trying to get inside the skulls of these leftist .gov employees to figure out why they think they have any power. Are they just bluffing or do all of them suffer delusions of grandeur?
They don’t vote R anyway, well, most don’t.
The ones that do will keep loving Trump. Look at the guy detained at the airport yesterday. “What do you think of Trump?”
- “I like him”
LOL
I think if you just flatten their bandwidth by 80-percent, you’d start to trigger the discontent and flow outward. Take down the ability to connect to Facebook and Twitter, and you’d send the message quickly on the new leadership style.
Post of the day!
You win the entire internet!
Howland Island “has no economic activity” according to Wiki. In other words, there is no better place for the 16,000! They’ll fit right in.
But government workers aren’t exempt from firing..Only some judges are “lifetime” appointments, aren’t they????
Fire all 16,0000 and start over
Gotta say it from eagle eye.. Get to work, or you will be demoted to a position that actually involves touching shit with your hands.
Block all funding. The libs who steal oxygen at the EPA can dine on their regs.
It is far, far easier to make the sun rise in the west tomorrow morning than to fire a government employee.
I used to underwrite commercial auto insurance for large fleets. When we came across drivers with a long string of accidents and tickets, we could not legally tell the employer to fire them, but our advice was to rescind their driving privileges and give them work sweeping floors, cleaning toilets, etc.--anything to get them off the road and hopefully quit their jobs. ;D
Trump should blitz the EPA. Take the former EPA chief and all involved with that toxic river dump to court.
Open up EPA records for the public to see. Dump documents of all the rigged studies any uncomfortable e-mails.
Make the EPA a tiny agency and transfer functions to interior and/other relate to agencies. Eliminating the EPA would take congressional action and it’s not worth the political capital at least right now.
Cut off their pay or fire them. We do not need incompetents.
If he wants to do so, I think Trump would find the way...he is not your usual “professional politician”...
Lol, Guam.
You don’t have to control every federal employee.
You only have to control their pay computer.
Turnabout is fair play.
Every time a federal employee in this organization is supposed to get a step increase, they get a decrease.
It’s a computer glitch! Here, fill out a form. We’ll get it fixed in 8 or 9 years.
Best solution is to fire half of them before they get to work. Then they will run around all day holding their a$$e$ and wondering what to do.
Worry not!
I think President Trump knows how to fire under-performing employees. That is a very underestimated skill.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
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