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Once determined to eliminate the Department of Energy, Rick Perry will now lead it
Canada Free Press ^ | 12/13/16 | Dan Calabrese

Posted on 12/13/2016 12:15:41 PM PST by Sean_Anthony

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To: Vic S

McMorris Rodgers to Sec of Interior.


21 posted on 12/13/2016 12:29:12 PM PST by Vic S ( David Rockefeller killed Larry McDonald (Congressman, President of the Birch Society - KAL 007))
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To: nikos1121

Crony capitalism is a strange concept.

If I partner with someone I know to start a business, isn’t that “crony capitalism”?


22 posted on 12/13/2016 12:29:54 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: SaxxonWoods

Yep! :-)


23 posted on 12/13/2016 12:30:47 PM PST by nikos1121 (I hear Kasich is being considered for post master general.)
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To: fwdude

Trump is just a stalking horse for Hillary!


24 posted on 12/13/2016 12:30:57 PM PST by SaxxonWoods (Ride To The Sound Of The Guns)
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To: DIRTYSECRET

That works for me. Too many politicians are all hat and no cattle. Shutting down the DOE would be a resume enhancer.


25 posted on 12/13/2016 12:36:22 PM PST by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G. K. Chesterton))
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To: Sean_Anthony

Rick hates the Dept of Energy. He will chop back the whole thing.


26 posted on 12/13/2016 12:37:06 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: fwdude
Perry used to be a Democrat, and he has lingering tendencies in that world view. Of course, the same is true with Trump.

And of course Reagan. For many years I was a democrat.

27 posted on 12/13/2016 12:40:58 PM PST by mc5cents (Pray for America)
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To: Georgia Girl 2

I hope (and expect) that this is the plan. The budget should be steadily reduced, and pieces dismantled so that in 4 years or less there is nothing left. A manager that wants to kill the beast is essential.


28 posted on 12/13/2016 12:44:02 PM PST by ClearCase_guy (Abortion is what slavery was: immoral but not illegal. Not yet.)
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To: Sean_Anthony

maybe he was appointed to it.. to oversee it’s dismantling !


29 posted on 12/13/2016 12:45:06 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (You can't spell Hillary without using the letters L, I, A, R)
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To: SaxxonWoods
If I partner with someone I know to start a business, isn’t that “crony capitalism”?

No. But if you have another pal who is a decision maker in the government and over lunch he promises to send some work your way to help get your new company up and running because he owes you one, it is.

30 posted on 12/13/2016 12:45:33 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (ui)
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To: tom paine 2

Somebody has to be in charge of dismantling.


31 posted on 12/13/2016 12:46:04 PM PST by Flaming Conservative
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To: Sean_Anthony

It’s amazing how many of Trump’s nominees may well end up being the last leader of their respective Departments.


32 posted on 12/13/2016 12:51:13 PM PST by Yo-Yo ( Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: Sean_Anthony
It's certainly reasonable for a department head to campaign for an increase in personnel in order to accomplish their mission. I see no reason to rule out having a department head campaign to have personnel decreased if they are unnecessary to the mission.

A lot depends, of course, on who gets to define "the mission".

33 posted on 12/13/2016 1:00:48 PM PST by William Tell
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To: Vic S

Yes, now I realize energy policy is more than just taking off EPA regs and giving out drill permits. It’s also about our foreign policy deals


34 posted on 12/13/2016 1:13:47 PM PST by ari-freedom (Chicken Little Concerned for Trump people are almost as annoying as NeverTrumpers!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

Agreed!


35 posted on 12/13/2016 1:19:00 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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Perry is a great choice, and yes, I too hope he oversees its complete elimination.


36 posted on 12/13/2016 1:20:40 PM PST by TheTimeOfMan (A time for peace and a time for war)
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To: Sean_Anthony

Let’s hope that Texas cowboy Perry gets onto that EPA horse and rides it into the ground and then buries it very, very deep.


37 posted on 12/13/2016 1:27:41 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: TheTimeOfMan

My hope is that Perry was hired to manage an orderly wind-down, kind of like a Chapter 7.

Maybe Mittens can be the “Wind-Down Czar”, overseeing the phase out of all the useless and unconstitutional departments. He does like firing people, after all... :)


38 posted on 12/13/2016 1:31:43 PM PST by lowtaxsmallgov (This Administration has absolutely no idea how to grow an economy)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

People were saying Sarah Palin would get this slot—What happened to her?

Think about Palin a bit. She would have to move some 3,000 plus miles or leave her family
there and visit once in a while. She has a special needs child that I don’t see Sarah leaving
for the rigors of a full time job. She is more comfortable being free to go and come as she
pleases or it seems so to me. She was a council person or something similar and governor for
a couple of years. She stays occupied but not in a designated full time job of employment.
Sarah will remain with the family in Alaska. JMO


39 posted on 12/13/2016 1:33:17 PM PST by deport
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To: DIRTYSECRET
Granted the reasons for wanting Cruz on SCOTUS, I hope it will not happen, at least not until Trump’s third pick (were that to happen).

The Republicans only have 52 in the Senate, and Democrats love to prattle about Republican SCOTUS nominees being “out of the mainstream.” But in that context Trump’s list of potential nominees - potentially a liability during the election campaign - is now a trump card. The Democrats’ problem is that the “out of the mainstream” dog won’t hunt when the nominee’s identity fulfills an explicit campaign promise. A promise, BTW, which helped him attract support from Christian voters nationwide.

If the Democrats had made a valid issue over the record of anyone on that list, they could now claim that the actual nominee was “worse than that.” They defaulted on that opportunity, and now they don’t have a leg to stand on if they oppose Trump’s nominee. If the nominee is on Trump’s list.

In 2018 the Democrats will have 25 - half their total senate caucus - seats to defend. Ten of them from states Trump won las month. The Democrats have been weak in the last two non-presidential elections, so the iron will be hot in ’18, and the Republicans must strike. Failure to win seats in ’18 would set the Republicans up for loss of the majority in ’20 or ’22, when they will have an average of 22 - not a mere 8 as in 2018 - incumbents to defend.

The Republicans must have those 25 Democrat senators - especially the most vulnerable ten - sweating bullets over their reelection. They must go to work right now recruiting solid nominees in all 25 of the states with Democrat seats up for reelection.


40 posted on 12/13/2016 1:39:17 PM PST by conservatism_IS_compassion ('Liberalism' is a conspiracy against the public by wire-service journalism.)
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