Posted on 12/08/2016 7:09:09 AM PST by rktman
News broke Wednesday that President-Elect Donald Trump had selected Oklahoma Attorney General, and active opponent to the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt to lead that very same organization. Word of Trump’s latest pick sent liberal environmental groups into a panic along with networks CBS and NBC. “The president-elect filled more administration posts today, putting a global warming sceptic in charge of protecting the environment,” announced anchor Scott Pelley on CBS Evening News.
CBS’s Nancy Cordes bemoaned Trump’s climate change switcheroo from earlier in the week. “Al Gore's meeting with Mr. Trump the other day gave environmentalists hope, but that hope evaporated today when Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt was tapped to head the environmental protection agency,” she whined.
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DOD...everything
My thought exactly!
I love reading this stuff out loud to my lady at the table of the restaurant — in California.
I love the scowls as I smile.
I really don’t care about useless government bureaucrats. Let them experience the welfare system they created for “the little people” first hand. If they want employment, go to the PRIVATE sector — or, their agency or department can give them a cyanide capsule when they leave for use if the real world is too harsh to bear.
Go nuclear, Senate! Any thing they can do, we can do! We won!
Remember Obamacare! “You have to pass it to see what’s in it!” The commie left shoved it down our throats, it was NOT bipartisan!
Time to clean house st the behest of the American people!
Put the EPA out of existence. The GOP is always accused by the LEFTISTS of wanting to pollute the air and live with dirty water - show them you mean it!!!
Government Agencies should not have para military forces!
Only police & military.
Pruitt was a great pick, no doubt about it.
THE only one I would keep is Commerce at a smaller size. It would help Trump with his labor dealings with other Nations.
Surgeon General? Why does that position even exist? Between the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), that should be reduced and the Center for Disease Control (CDC), what's the point of some guy/gal running around in a quasi-military uniform with no power and making a speech on occasion?
The EPA needs to be cut back to almost non-existence. Leave a shell to make the greenies happy.
The Department of Education should be entirely abolished. It is not the function of Fedgov to dictate to State and local schools.
Don't know much about the Department of Agriculture, but knowing Fedgov intrusion in all matters, sure it could be cut back if not eliminated. Or, as I suggested elsewhere, it is absorbed into the Department of the Interior. When you merge different entities, downsizing always occurs.
My biggest conundrum is with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). It's another bloated bureaucracy that came out of the 911 attacks and hysteria about doing something. That said, I believe that it has been beneficial in making all the LE agencies share intel and has thwarted many terrorist attacks...obviously not all. I think it could be downsized and still work.
“Word of Trump’s latest pick sent liberal environmental groups into a panic along with networks CBS and NBC. “
All of this “winning” is wonderful! And it’s a twofer when you have the MSM having a complete meltdown. It must really be ruining their day to realize that they no longer control the narrative at all.
I’ve always told my Trump hating friends and not friends, that once elected he will eliminate all/most of Obama’s EPA regs, and that action ALONE, will propel our stagnant economy. Their response, “what about the environment, what about global warming”. Compared to what, who, China, India, Russia, Mexico....
Everyone knows we should have a Marxist America hating activist in charge of the EPA. Killing businesses should be the main purpose of that bureaucracy.
Pray America woke
Good point.
The problem with the EPA over the last 8 years is that Obama and his minions entered into all kinds of consent decrees over all sorts of things...
IE Some group wanted something changed.. knew they could not get a rule change, or a legislative change... so OBama’s EPA would tell them go sue us.. then we’ll settle the suit by agreeing to a consent decree related to the case.. basically getting you what you want, without Congress or even the standard rule process being involved.
The EPA is bound by all kinds of crap... Trump needs an EPA director who will be willing to break and fight to invalidate every one of these things, as well as direct the organization properly as well.
I’m not convinced Al Gore actually believes in Global Warming.
He has a belief in a hot bank account.
Seriously? With due respect, is that you own take on the "story" or the factual truth? "And they have even given Racist Communist Van Jones his own show!"
WHOA! I'm surprised because I switch between Fox and CNN and have seen CNN try to be a little more balanced in the last couple years. What is CNN calling the show? "The Van Jones Communist Hour"? Sheesh, Van Jones is a socialist at least, but a racist above all.
Here's a recent link to a Rolling Stone article about Van Jones. Please don't let your head explode, I'm just the messenger.
Here in the Chicago news media, they're using the term "Climate Change Denier" like a smear.......
.........the media and their liberal partners have ground the climate change pencil down to a nub................................zero credibility on the subject..............for hopefully the next 16 years!
Damn straight. Personally, I’d like to it done away with and just let each state manage it’s own environmental issues.
“Senate Pubbies, hear us well.
You had best adopt the Nuclear Option.
Because if a handful of nutjobs obstruct TRUMP’S picks,
we’ll see to it that your party is OVER!!!!!”
- quote from Buckeye McFrog
President-Elect Donald John Trump will be -
PRESIDENT DONALD JOHN TRUMP, you see.
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