And there you have it, just how much any GOP senator cares about Cohen’s testimony - back to business as usual.
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Oh, it’s already happened.
From Wikipedia:
[quote]On December 4, 2017, President Donald Trump ordered an 85 percent (about 1.3 million acres) reduction in the size of the monument. The boundaries were redrawn with two noncontiguous units named Indian Creek and Shash Jáa; the latter unit includes the Bears Ears buttes. Trump also reduced the size of Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument by nearly 47 percent on the same day.[6]
The monument’s reduction was seen as a victory for Republican officials and energy companies with mining leases for fossil fuel and uranium deposits, and a defeat for environmentalists and Native American tribes.[85][86] Internal documents of the Interior Department obtained by The New York Times include the state of Utah’s interest in potential mining revenue on state trust lands within the original monument.[/quote]
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It is hard to imagine anything more cynical than to appoint a coal industry lobbyist to head the EPA.
Perhaps appointing the CEO of Philip Morris to head Health and Human Services. I wonder why Trump didn’t think of that?
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I think this is why they’re having their bogus Climate Change council - to gather close the deniers and then take loyalty oaths on the bogus “everything’s fine” report so that anyone in the administration with the temerity to support science will have to out themselves. And then get pushed out. So the outing works both ways.
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ANY vote to in any way invest in, sustain, or extend the infrastructure for extraction, processing and distribution of carbon=based fuels is another nail in the globe’s coffin. What Trump and his zealots are doing is global environmental suicide. They all ought to be dragged into the World Court for crimes against humanity.
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Fox in charge of chicken house.
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Well, foxes are uniquely qualified, seeing as they’ve spent so much time with chickens.
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I did see a couple of beautiful red foxes 2 weeks ago and must say they did not look at all like this human one.
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They’d also do a better job of running the EPA.
A family of them took up residence behind my house last year. It was spectacular to watch them, though the nearby chickens were pretty nervous about the whole thing.
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Susan Collins is running scare, and well she should be. Her phony voting with the Democrats is all a stunt. She knows her vote wasn’t needed to confirm wheeler, and this is were she fails, every time she is one of the deciding votes, she always votes party line. So for her to vote when her vote isn’t needed to past or kill a bill is when she will vote with Democrats. This needs to change, and the voters of Maine need to show her the door in 2020 and elect a Democrat to replace her.
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ALL the Repukes are scammers .
Betsy DeVos for Education Sec…r…e…t…a…r… (oh my)
Cleaning out the alligators out of the swamp and putting in puppets.
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) The Humane Society welcomes their new head Jeremiah Butcher, formerly of Premium Pork Paks Slaughterhouse and sausage lobbyist for the past 2 decades. Mr. Butcher vows to make a clean sweep of old ways of doing things and guarantees there won’t be too many dogs and cats waiting for homes in the coming months.
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I can almost see the calculations in Joe Manchin’s head.
When I voted for Brett Kavanaugh, I figured most of his damage will occur in States other than West Virginia.
This vote, allows me to continue to appear to be a member of the Democratic Party, on a vote that doesn’t really help them, and Mitch doesn’t really need my vote…
Win-Win.
He is no longer the Acting Adminstrator, but he is not the “permanent” adminstrator. His appointment ends with this administration.
This jackass has been pushing coal. He’s into burning dirt. And Trumplethinskin Toadglans, Orange Anus extraordinaire, now has him as Director of the Environmental Protection Agency.
This is THE WORLD-WIDE ASSHOLE’s way of saying “fuck you!” to everyone on the planet.