Hahahahahahaha…this should be good…
Dems are waging a fruitless battle here with Senate leadership. Pruitt’s e-mails will only serve to clarify with Republicans all the reasons they want him to head the EPA. Thinking they’ll demonstrate he’s unfit or has conflicts of interest that can’t be resolved is not the point. He hates the EPA and scientists. That makes him eminently qualified.
“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is forcing the Senate to vote tomorrow on Pruitt even though his emails won’t be released until Tuesday. This is an egregious cover up."
– Sen. Jeff Merkely (D-OR)
“Cover up,” I like that term. We should use it more often to describe Republican efforts to whitewash the actions of the dysfunctional Donald misadministration.
And the reich isn’t even a month old. Going to be interesting.
I was wondering the other day how Trump was going to humiliate Christie when they met at the White House.
“Meatloaf Christie?”
Exactly
They will push him through and then let him loose on the environment.
I mean seriously, look what Trump just did .
Executive order rolling back Obama’s effort to stop coal waste in streams .
Who doesn’t want coal waste in their streams?
And so it will be until the first slag heap flows into a stream or water source making people sick and destroying the environment.
Even then with no regulations in place and an inept justice department it will be swept under the rug
You know, Fake News
Yes…this ^^^^
I couldn’t be the first to post for some reason. I wanted to point this out too as something that backs up my observations of Mitch’s mental flexibility waning. Big Freudian slip here. Wanting to see pertinent emails is not a cover up in any way but that’s the words he used. This simple quote tells me a lot about how the pressure is getting to him.
I wish someone would do a video mash up of Mitch’s outlandish hypocrisy. Jon Stewart could have done a great one so perhaps Colbert will, but someone needs to. I think this really needs to happen. I’d like to see wall to wall coverage of his behavior because I think he would crack. No one deserves it more than Mitch. He really is the one that holds the key to trump’s future and I would like to see a hell of a lot of pressure put on him instead of just calling him turtle and letting him get away with all his shit.
Read this for starters!
That would be sensible. Not gonna happen.
Nah. Bobby Joe and Ferd from WWTF-TV will rush to the disaster site. Muck covered survivors of Wartville, WV will proclaim God works in mysterious ways, but hey, coal is our life, and President Trump will surely do something about all this mess and send help. After some ranting about the heathen gays and radical Islamic terrorists the interview will be called a wrap and beamed back to the station for the 6 o’clock news.
…and Faux will send down one of their “Bubble Headed Bleach Blondes”
“Oh, My!” this will be rich.
Finally the country will be able to see the flagrent-pole-slobbering that goes on between the Oil-Industry-owned AG and “His Dark Oily Masters”.
Get out the Popcorn.
Anyone that reads and stays abreast of events already knows it. Those ignorant of reality will remain so, even if a willful turning of the head and further lapse into denial is required. The publication of these e-mails will elicit a response similar to what we saw upon release of recordings confirming Trump committed sexual assault on women. A collective shrug of the shoulders. Ho-hum.
You are right
Because coal
and those mines will reopen any day now.
Which always makes me laugh
These rubes didn’t notice that the mining companies switched to mountain top removal because it eliminates all those pesky humans from the process
Donald Trump’s energy agenda – which includes pledges of “complete energy independence”, making coal great again and ditching the Paris climate deal – is drawing bipartisan fire from industry analysts, former members of Congress, and even one coal mogul.
All of them, to varying degrees, fault the billionaire’s basic premises and call his promises farfetched and at times contradictory.
They say the Republican presidential candidate uses faulty math to tout his vision of America’s energy independence, fails to understand energy economics in his pledge to revive the coal industry, and is peddling a big myth by claiming that global warming is a hoax.
Some energy analysts also observe that Trump’s energy prescriptions, including big regulatory cutbacks that have long been industry wishes, are politically expedient and unrealistic. In making his promise to “save the coal industry”, for instance, Trump has backed slashing environmental rules, taking that message to West Virginia earlier this year, when he pledged that the state’s miners, as well as those in Ohio and Pennsylvania, “are going to start to work again, believe me”.
“Donald Trump’s promise to revive the US coal sector can only be realized by reining in hydraulic fracking,” said Jerry Taylor, the president of libertarian thinktank the Niskanen Center.
“That’s because low-cost natural gas (courtesy of fracking) has done far more to shut down coal-fired power plants and, correspondingly, reduce demand for US coal than has EPA regulations. Given that he promises exactly the opposite – moving heaven and earth to increase US natural gas production – Trump’s promises are empty.”
… Bob Murray, who runs Murray Energy, which has given $100,000 to a pro-Trump Super Pac, says that the coal industry won’t ever be great again. “I don’t think it will be a thriving industry ever again,” Murray told an energy publication this year. “The coal mines cannot come back to where they were or anywhere near it.”
Trump also promised “complete energy independence”, a bullish commitment since about a quarter of US energy needs are met by imports, and one that relied on flawed projections of proven oil reserves. Trump stated that the US had 1.5 times the oil of all Opec countries combined. But at the end of 2014, the US had proven reserves of just under 40bn barrels, while Saudi Arabia alone had proven reserves of 268bn barrels.
Similarly, Trump claimed that constructing the Keystone XL pipeline – which, unlike Hillary Clinton, he backs – would create and support 42,000 jobs. But industry projections suggest that building the pipeline would yield about 6,000 jobs directly, and another 7,000 jobs indirectly.
Ex-Conoco Phillips lobbyist Don Duncan compared Trump’s energy proposals to those of an “old snake oil salesman”, saying: “Trump’s energy cures are based on a lot of numbers that clash with energy industry data and scientific studies.”
Trump’s penchant for ignoring facts and hard evidence is also underscored by his attacks on global warming and the Paris accords.
Trump famously tweeted in 2012 that the “concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing less competitive”. Taylor called this “risible”.
Trump denied during Monday’s presidential debate having said such a thing, but in a speech last December he referred to global warming as a “hoax” three times in one sentence.
Former US congressman Bob Inglis, a South Carolina Republican who runs a group promoting free enterprise climate change ideas, said Trump’s global warming views were dangerous. “People who presume to be leaders by offering false hope and inflaming passions are disqualifying themselves for leadership.”
i guess the gop hasn’t been burned enough times rushing these appointments. will trump be forced to ask for pruitt’s resignation tuesday night?
OMG, the link isn’t to the Onion.
Did he make him sit in a high chair and give him a bib, too?