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Energy Department Refuses To Give Trump Team Names of People Who Worked On Climate Change (businessinsider.com)
The Department of Energy said Tuesday it will reject the request by President-elect Donald Trump's transition team to name staffers who worked on climate change programs. Energy spokesman Eben Burnhan-Snyder said the agency received "significant feedback" from workers regarding a questionnaire from the transition team that leaked last week. From a Reuters story, syndicated on BusinessInsider: The response from the Energy Department could signal a rocky transition for the president-elect's energy team and potential friction between the new leadership and the staffers who remain in place. The memo sent to the Energy Department on Tuesday and reviewed by Reuters last week contains 74 questions including a request for a list of all department employees and contractors who attended the annual global climate talks hosted by the United Nations within the last five years. "Our career workforce, including our contractors and employees at our labs, comprise the backbone of (the Energy Department) and the important work our department does to benefit the American people," Eben Burnham-Snyder, Energy Department spokesman said. "We are going to respect the professional and scientific integrity and independence of our employees at our labs and across our department," he added. "We will be forthcoming with all publicly available information with the transition team. We will not be providing any individual names to the transition team."
If they "rebel", he will just shut down the entire department. If they do a job worth doing (energy does not), then he will reform it with new people.
Trump can try. But the reality is that shutting down departments is extremely difficult because each department has supporters in Congress and a network of lobbyists. He can't fire an entire department without violating Civil Service laws that protects workers from politics.
Trump will teach you.
I work in government IT. No one is worried about Trump. No one.
Good point and brings up one of the rally cries Trump has made during the campaign. Reform of Federal employee rights. He's not been shy one bit about it either. He intends to remove the protections many of the civil servants enjoy under his soon to be purposed "Reduction on Government Waste and Spending" program. So yeah, they are protected like you said, but Trump is literally gunning to remove that very thing and fire anyone who isn't an ass kisser. So great point you bring up but already addressed. This proposal from Trump to Congress is all but a forgone conclusion. The bigger question will be if Congress will give the President this new power. Who knows, but if anything is for sure, it's that there will be massive amount of spin from every direction when it finally hits committee.
We haven't had a budget in 8 years and all of a sudden McConnell is talking about how he's worried about a deficit under Trump. Imagine his surprise when Trump submits a proposal well under current expenditures.
We don't have a state-run media we have a media-run state.
I think he will sack entire agency, and you cannot find a better reason.
Sack the entire Department of Energy? Ridiculous. They're responsible for some of the most critical government research, including nuclear energy (including weapons), renewables, and even supercomputing. Trump isn't just going to replace a scientist with 30 years' experience working on laser energy sources with some college kid because he doesn't believe in climate change.
Breakfast served all day!
No, we won't. Stop being delusional. First off, Biden is not part of the Sanders camp, he's a lot closer to the Hillary camp, though admittedly he isn't remotely as scandal-plagued or charismatically-challenged as her. Secondly, Biden and Sanders are both quite old now; it's really doubtful either one of them is up for a 2020 run. They'd both probably be the oldest contenders in history for those offices.
Regardless of all that, I simply cannot believe that the DNC would back Sanders again (or a Sanders clone). They're simply too corrupt; they proved it in this election. They even re-elected Pelosi to her position.
I think what's going to happen is one of 2 things: 1) Hillary will be backed, yet again, and will lose, *again*, to Trump, even amidst a terrible recession caused by Trump's policies. I think the DNC just isn't ready to throw in the towel on pushing their queen to the Presidency. 2) Some other (younger, slightly less scandal-plagued, but obviously sold-out corporatist) Hillary clone will be nominated again, again with dirty tricks by the DNC just like this year, and they'll lose, again.
And cut it out with your comments about "real democratic candidates". See the No True Scotsman fallacy. Candidates like Hillary and DWS are *real* Democrats. They epitomize the Democratic party, and this was proven this year by the DNC's backing of them.
Face it: the Democratic party has a *long* history of running establishment-backed losers. Every once in a while there's a big upset or exception, but most of the time they pick the most uncharismatic people they can find, and frequently the most corrupt. They ran Mondale and Dukakis, both horribly uncharismatic. Then they picked Bill Clinton; corrupt (though it wasn't so obvious back then) but he made up for it in charisma and the Republicans' vote was split by Perot so he won with a minority. He got lucky and presided over an economic boom fueled by the internet so he got re-elected (Dole had no charisma too). Then they ran Gore, who had the charisma of a wooden pole, and he lost (partially thanks to the vote being split by the much more progressive Nader) to Bush, who had some charisma though he was dumber than a chimp and looked like one too. Then they tried running Kerry against Bush, and Kerry too had no charisma and was totally unlikeable. Then they tried coronating their corrupt and utterly unlikeable queen Hillary, but Obama (who had lots of charisma) threw a wrench into their machinations there and beat her in the primaries in a big surprise. So now that Obama can't run for a 3rd term (which is too bad, I'll take him over Hillary any day), they did it again, and succeeded this time with lots of dirty tricks against another charismatic upstart named Sanders, and just as Michael Moore predicted, she lost to Trump, the second most unpopular candidate in history.
If the Democratic Party can't learn their lesson after at least 32 years, I have no idea why you think they'll suddenly change their ways now.
There is no "working with" someone who has publicly declared themselves your enemy.
Your 'enemies' are your fellow americans. You have already decided trump sucks. Other than let him fail on his own. You want him to fail apriori. You seem rather passionate about it. Have you gone to actually talk to trump? When you do so you need to have a good bargaining position with him. Everything is a deal with him. With everyone coming out 'win win'.
People who want to undermine him will probably get fired. He did make a show about doing just that...
One look at the proposed cabinet shows that 100% - these people were not selected for expertise
Dont know about you but I see some fairly smart people being put into those positions. I also do not see him letting them coast along if they fuck up. Again he is NOT shy about firing people who do poor jobs.
But from day one, these fuckers have declared war.
On whom? Your idea of 'liberalism'? If you had actually listened to Trumps speeches he said 'its rigged'. He meant just that. They system is rigged. If you do not think so, swing by your state legislature. Then watch the bills. Watch who passes them and who is for/against them. Then follow where those bills come from. 99% of the time you will see they were written word for word by someone else and promoted by some cherry picked ass. If you stop and think for a min you would realize he has had a crystal clear view into most political dealings. As many affected his businesses. He was one of the few who said NAFTA was a bad deal for the US. He then went on and took advantage of it. Just like he told them everyone else would and they did. He likes to tell you up front if he is going to mess you over then does just that unless you cut a deal with him.
When Obama got a nobel peace prize the left yelled 'give him a chance'. Yet the 'left' does not want to extend the same gratitude towards him.
If you think Clinton and her goto guys podesta and huma would have been a better choice can you please tell me what a 'pizza related map' is and why it needs to be take care of?
That is a real crock if I ever heard one. I worked in an agency once and people were constantly changing position like a game of musical chairs, presumably to increase pay grades. There was no continuity at all.....
love is just extroverted narcissism