Trump Picks Pruitt to Lead EPA
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Oh look... the internet war hero is a bigot too!
LMAO!
Troomp is his champion
LittleHo is still so salty. Need tissues?
A little bit of history for you. The last time a moron like Pruitt was appointed he ended up in jail for breaking the law. Look it up, his name was James Watt; and not the James Watt who invented the steam engine. He was appointed by Reagan. The Dumpster is falling into an all too familiar trap; that of thinking he can get away with anything. It is going to come as a big surprise when he discovers that he is not above the law.
Look stoopid. As I've said before . I do not care who the president is. Ye ole 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other , I don't give a shyte. What is amusing, is your childish gloating and hyperbole. I'm not sittiing here with a boner for my champion as you are. But continue on eaglecrack sho me say the libtard , libtard ,, Libtard. Incidentally troomp won't be available but I hear canook is looking for a drinkin buddy.
.I'm looking stuff up on him.........
Thom Hartmann: It's great to see you. So this Pruitt pick certainly looks as bad as it could possibly get in terms of the EPA, do you think that's fair to say?
Robert Kennedy Jr.: I think it would be hard to find somebody worse than him. Scott Pruitt has been about a shill for the, not just the energy industry but for Tysons Food and for corporate agriculture. He's allowed the, he's taken a lot of money from oil and as you pointed out he allowed Devon Energy to ghost write letters for him on their behalf, signed by him on state stationary, to the EPA. He's repeatedly sued EPA. He is a, he's a really, he's a creature of the large-scale industrial agriculture: the Cargills, the Tysons, the other big agricultural enterprises, Bo Pilgrim, etcetera and of the oil industry.
And he also, he has wed his affinity for corporate money to an ideology that he calls federalism, which is a, which he wants to abolish federal institutions including the EPA. He's been very open about that and now he's been put in charge of the EPA. He's going to do tremendous damage to that agency. He's going to do practical damage but he's also going to do damage to its principles and he's going to do moral damage to the agency
Thom Hartmann: I remember, most conspicuously perhaps from the Reagan administration, James Watt who was, you know, his Interior Secretary, who was selling off federal lands and the mineral rights thereto for pennies on the dollar, saying that it doesn't matter how badly despoiled they get because Jesus is going to make it all new again. And Ray Donovan, the guy who hated labor unions, that Reagan put in charge of the Labor Department. But is there a precedent? I mean, even those guys now, looking back, I'm almost nostalgic for it. Is there a precedent in history, in the history of the EPA, or for that matter some of these other picks as well? You know, a bankster running the Treasury? For someone to be in charge who's this close to the fossil fuel industry, or any industry for that matter?
Robert Kennedy Jr.: Well, yeah, I would say yes. During the Reagan administration, the head of the the BLM was a rancher who had vowed to destroy the BLM. You know, the head of EPA, of course, was James Watt. And then he had, there were 26 people at one point who were indicted and forced to leave the EPA. And almost all of them were in charge of the different departments of EPA and they had all come in from the industries that they were supposed to be regulating. So we've seen that before. During the George W Bush administration you had people like Jeffrey
Holmstead who was a lobbyist for the oil industry, who was the deputy director, as I recall, of EPA and again did tremendous damage.
So I think, you know, there has been over the past decades, when Republicans come in they oftentimes put people who are very hostile to the mission of the agency. If you don't believe, you know, Ronald Reagan said to the, told the American people that the federal government was the problem, and there's been at an entire generation of Republican lawmakers who have come up with that idea that government doesn't solve problems, government creates problems. And as you know, Grover Norquist has basically made the mantra of the Republican Party that you, that this idea that the Republican Party wants to shrink government in Norquist's words, not to destroy it completely but to get it small enough that you could stuff it in a bathtub and drown it. And those are his words.
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Transcript: Robert Kennedy Jr. - Get Ready For A Climate Denier Heading up the EPA?! - 7 December '16 | Thom Hartmann
“James Watt had all the political skills and public relations sense of a boa constrictor,” said Jim DiPeso, policy director at REP. “When Watt wanted to open up wilderness areas to mining and drilling regardless of the environmental consequences, he said just that. But at least he had the virtue of being a straight shooter.”
Watt’s impolitic bluntness ultimately got the best of him. He made the most odious comment of his career in defense of his widely criticized decision to authorize the sale of more than 1 billion tons of coal from federal lands in Wyoming. He argued that he was immune to criticism because members of his coal-advisory panel included “a black … a woman, two Jews, and a cripple.” This comment got him fired in 1983, the same year that Gorsuch was forced to resign because documents exposed by Congress revealed major misconduct within her agency
A look back at Reagan’s environmental record | Grist
Anti-environmental US Secretary of the Interior, James Watt and EPA Administrator Anne Goresuch resign after much public pressure.
Look stoopid. As I've said before . I do not care who the president is. Ye ole 6 of 1, half a dozen of the other , I don't give a shyte. What is amusing, is your childish gloating and hyperbole. I'm not sittiing here with a boner for my champion as you are. But continue on eaglecrack sho me say the libtard , libtard ,, Libtard. Incidentally troomp won't be available but I hear canook is looking for a drinkin buddy.
LittleHo... you OK? Damn boy, that was some post! lmao
All he needs to do is undo what was done... no law broken. As Obama said... elections have consequences!
Stay Salty!
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Frankly I think that the Dumpster is simply too lazy to get anything done; and if he does try to reverse environmental standards he will meet with massive opposition - even from Republicans.
Keep Wishing!
I don't have to wish. Try reversing environmental laws and the Dumpster will meet with opposition that makes the pipeline protest at Standing Rock look like a picnic. If a few thousand protesters can stop a pipeline imagination what several hundred thousand protestors can do.
The funny thing is that many are not laws. That's what I am talking about. That is what you do not understand what is about to be undone. Executive Orders, EPA Regulations, etc.
Insecure LittleHo
I suspect that if you google US environment regulations you will get far more than you can read. We are talking about a nation that would not allow the opening of a major hydro-electric project because it would have endangered a rare species of fish.
