[tom paine 2]

Maybe he’ll do both, I hope.

[Forward the Light Brigade]

People were saying Sarah Palin would get this slot—What happened to her? I thought she supported Trump? Did she go back to Ted Cruz? McCain? or just go wacko all by herself?

[BlueLancer]

"Once determined to eliminate the Department of Energy, Rick Perry will now lead it..."

...hopefully, to destruction.

[hadaclueonce]

Perry has my vote for first one out.
I will take under in one year.

[xzins]

Maybe his mission is to close it. We don’t really know.

[BitWielder1]

Go ahead and eliminate it, except for maybe a small core if it turns out to be really necessary.
DOE, EPA and several other departments could easily be reduced to, say, 10 man advisory panels to Congress.
They should have NO legislative power of their own.

[Ancesthntr]

“How can a man lead a department he once advocated eliminating entirely?”

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It is easier to tear it up from the inside than from the outside.

Plus, of course, he can at least make sure that regulations are removed that have and continue to hinder the production of energy (and, thus, job creation). Take the chains off of this critical part of the economy, and the economy will have in place one of the key pieces on the chessboard necessary to have a real boom. The other 2 key pieces are tax policy and trade policy.

[NonValueAdded]

it’s not mutually exclusive

[Vic S]

Trump’s main goal is to reduce the deficit and debt.

I think he plans on making America not only energy independent, but a net exporter of oil. He appointed a Texan to lead the dept of Energy and the CEO of Exxon to be Sec of State.

He also appointed US Rep Cathy McMorris Rodgers, a climate-change skeptic and an advocate for expanded oil and gas development.

It’s all making sense.

[Georgia Girl 2]

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

[TexasFreeper2009]

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

[Yo-Yo]

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

[William Tell]

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".

[GreyFriar]

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.

[SpaceBar]

I hope he runs the EPA through a wood chipper with rock salt and scatters the remains to the four winds.

[pgkdan]

The best way to dismantle the beast is from the inside.

[philman_36]

Hmmmmm...Send him in to gut it from the inside to show that it’s useless with elimination to follow shortly thereafter?

[ConservaTeen]

Rick Perry, the last head of of Dept. Of Energy. He will be a great person to get rid of it.

[SaraJohnson]

He may lead it out the door.

[trebb]

Sounds like he’s perfect for the job.