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Trump Picks EPA Head, Left Loses Mind
Many conservatives were nervous when Donald and Ivanka summoned Al Gore to Trump Tower for a discussion on climate change. Any fears were put to rest Wednesday when his transition team chose Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA.
Pruitt gained national attention by suing the EPA over burdensome regulations expected to harm Oklahoma businesses and residents. He challenged the agency’s radical rules on carbon emissions, cross-state air pollution, regional haze, and greenhouse gasses, which relied more on social justice than hard science.
If his legal record doesn’t hearten conservatives, the reaction by the left will. Lefties took to Twitter in a collective primal scream.
At the risk of being dramatic. Scott Pruitt at EPA is an existential threat to the planet
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) December 7, 2016
Nominating a climate denier to run the Environmental Protection Agency is offensive. I will do everything I can to stop this.
— Brian Schatz (@brianschatz) December 7, 2016
For our children’s sake, the EPA Administrator cannot be a stenographer for Big Oil lobbyists & polluters. https://t.co/lWPvQPUrTG
— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) December 7, 2016
Whatever @algore said, @realDonaldTrump apparently didn’t get it. https://t.co/6NLni2B242
— David Axelrod (@davidaxelrod) December 7, 2016
Scott Pruitt is a dangerous and unqualified choice for #EPA pic.twitter.com/Xf2JtyQXEq
— Eric Schneiderman (@AGSchneiderman) December 7, 2016
EPA nom Scott Pruitt stands with big oil & climate deniers, not American families who fight for #CleanAir & #CleanWater
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) December 7, 2016
Trump’s nominee to lead EPA, Scott Pruitt, is a climate denier who’s worked closely with the fossil fuel industry. That’s sad and dangerous.
— Bernie Sanders (@SenSanders) December 7, 2016
Enough with the “denier” smear. The fact is, everyone believes in climate change. But only progressives think it started 100 years ago.
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My only concern about Gore meeting with Ivanka was for her personal safety. DJT took care of that by being there in person. Great choice for EPA!
I hope he arrives at the confirmation hearings in a Hummer. And then while under questioning he admits to never recycling and always leaving the water running while brushing his teeth.
Wonder what Trump is going to tweet about tonight. Every time he makes a choice like this he tweets something outrageous, and the press forgets about the real news chasing the tweet squirrel.
Seawriter
I’m loving this more and more.
While the coasts are upset , let us hear from the rest of the country
OMG! Yes!
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Happy. Happy. Happy!
Commerce, Education and the … um … EPA! … there you go …
Add wearing a fur coat and alligator boots with an ivory handled Colt on his hip.
For sake of my political cliche bingo card, I’m glad Pelosi brought up the children. If someone could shoehorn ‘wrong side of history’ into their outrage tweet, I win a 2 for 1 coupon at Sizzler.
Schumer’s response is the poster tweet for the weakness of the Dem’s position.
Ninety percent of the country refuses to believe carbon is a clean water/clean air issue.
And ninety percent who do don’t change their lifestyles based on that belief.
The days when the Secretary of Energy could look forward to $8 per gallon gasoline seem like a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away.
Looking forward to so much road kill in the rear view mirror!
Ted Nugent or Sarah Palin at Interior would really freak out the Dems.
Nice.
Kobach: Homeland Security = Pruitt: EPA
Kind of sorry that he picked Gen. Kelly.
OmiGod, it just keeps getting better.
Session, deVos, Price, Mattis, Carson, Haley, Flynn. Now Pruitt.
I’m delirious.
Bolton for SOS. Please, Mr Trump, Bolton for SOS…
A well-coined term.
I still don’t know how I could have voted for the guy, but I’ve gotta admit, this is kind of fun. After 8 years of leftist sanctimony, it’s cathartic.
The best way to get the average naive millennial/suburban mom/cultural follow the crowd Climate Changer to switch sides (or rethink their anti fossil fuel/climate change position) and turn on the Environmental Left is for all the Oil/Gas/Electric businesses to deny access to their products for just one day.
Not one of those snowflakes would tolerate, for even one day, the hardship of doing without the glorious gift from God that is fossil fuel.
This one might be hard to get through Congress…. thanks, Reid for showing us the way.
No one wants pollution. That is my mantra. Prove me right please.
Icing on the cake of liberal sorrows: Fellow Okie and Climate Rationalist Sen. James Inhofe will be Chairman of the Environment and Public Works Committee.
Sierra Club tears make voting for DJT soooo satisfying.
As a person in the environmental field, it’s time to stop focusing on CO2 and to deal with actual pollution, you know, the kind that makes people sick? The kind we were trying to fight before everyone decided that CO2 was the devil, despite being a natural product of all animal life and an inherent part of our ecosystem.
What’s worse is that modern environmental activists seem to be driven by emotion, not even wrong-headed scientific theory. If you want to reduce CO2 emissions, you use power sources that are virtually carbon-free (the majority of the carbon footprint of these places is the cars of the folks working there) like nuclear and hydroelectric, or the cheap and clean natural gas. (Natural gas turbines generate very little pollution when run properly) That was not the choice they made. Instead, they embarked on a path with biomass, solar, and wind that would not work and could never work.
So yeah, I’m excited to see some pushback.
Trump can explain that after discussions with Gore he realized the importance of releasing all the chakras of the American economy!
If he gets rid of Obamacare whole sale (no keeping the preexisting condition clause which I am hearing rumors about that he want to keep) and appoints a principle originatlist then I will not be embarrassed to say I voted for him. Until then we will see.
Sounds like a good choice. But, isn’t the climate denier tag getting old?
I prefer the term “Climate Rationalist.”
As @omegapaladin referenced above, the rejection of environment-friendly energy sources like nuclear & natural gas reveal the ugly reality of the climate scam; cronyism and the power to tell others what to do because one is morally superior. I’m so glad Reid got rid of the filibuster for Cabinet appointments; sauce for the goose…
From Eric Schneiderman’s statement:
Apparently the responsibilities of AGs differ between New York and Oklahoma.
I don’t know; this sounds too good.
If I had to surrender a pound of flesh to a Democrat liberal mob, just to give them a chance to save face, I’d probably nominate a guy that the Left hates, and then shrug my shoulders when he gets rejected. Then I’d pretend that I have no choice but to nominate a guy that the Left can live with – but who was my first choice all along.
As I say, I have no proof, other than my Spider-sense is tingling …
Mine too. This guy will be a lightening rod for all appointment-related criticism, and may take some heat off of other choices. That’s not a complaint; it’s rather shrewd, actually.