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Senate Confirms Former Coal Lobbyist Andrew Wheeler To Lead EPA (cnn.com)
The Senate voted Thursday to confirm Andrew Wheeler as administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, ratifying President Trump's choice of a former advocate for business interests to lead the agency. From a report: Wheeler, also a former Republican Senate aide on environmental issues, has been acting administrator since July, when former EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt resigned amid a host of ethics controversies. Since Wheeler began leading the agency, he has continued work on many of the same priorities as his predecessor, including looking to roll back Obama-era air and water pollution regulations. But Wheeler has brought a level of stability to the agency that didn't exist under Pruitt, keeping a relatively low profile while continuing to make progress towards meeting the Trump administration's policy goals for the agency. He has met often with industry representatives. Wheeler attended or held more than 50 meetings with representatives of companies or industry groups regulated by the EPA between April and August of 2018, a CNN review of his internal schedules found.
Trump's personal attorney has testified that he colluded with Russia's attack on America, and continues to commit other crimes.
Lock him up! right? Isn't that what he used to say about his opponent who wasn't a Russian owned traitor like him?
Joseph Goebbels has been named Ambassador to Israel, and Karl Marx has been named an FCC commissioner.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
MAGA bich
And fuck coal miners. Leave that poison in the ground.
So glad we didn't get a climate change conspiracy theorist in there.
Environmental Pillaging Agency
Senate = non representative corrupt dictators. They don't represent the people.
It's long time we rip up parts of the consitution, you know, the most important ones that have to do with how many senators a state gets.
They sit on their throne for a lifetime while selling you out for free. You have no say-so neither do your tax dollars.
hen house
Fat, drunk, and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
Let's put Chapo in charge of the DEA. Oh, wait, he already is! (by proxy)
Why is it that the loonie left who want to shutdown all production, ground every plane, stop every truck and car are always to be listened to? Get a life people. You would be starving to death if you would go the way of these losers who only complain about "what if's" and haven't accomplished anything in their lives nor will they. Other than being a follower of Henny Penny and those of that know the story know how that ends up. LOL For the adult children reading this, do you even KNOW the story? Probably not. But you're smart!! You can "GOOOOGLE IT". ROFLMAO Stupid people know nothing.
A great country has no need for clean air & water!
DE NILE MOTHERFUCKER!
When you go batshit crazy and lie for weeks about someone like Kavanaugh, when an actual bad person is put up for confirmation everyone will ignore your protest a more lies.
Congratulations on destroying the DNC as a believable viable party.
What you should do next is hold a vote to legalize killing infants or something. What? You did this week already?
How about looking for tapes of hookers peeing on a bed while Trump is attempting to end a 59 year war while oversea. Oh, you did that too?
How about having a KKK member as a Governor. Oh you did that in VA?
I know a serial rapist as a Lt. Governor. Did that too in VA?
Man, pretty good record of making your party complete shit. I can't make suggestions that would make it worse than they have already done.
Until the flow of lobbying money into election funds stops they represent an "electorate" of corporate donors, not the people, and they do serve their electorate.
if you want coal to come back you'll need somebody in charge who wants it to come back and wants it at any cost. Natural gas is just too competitive (let alone Solar and Wind). You're gonna have to start loosening environmental regs around coal.
One of the key reasons for the "Green New Deal" (the "New Deal" part) is jobs for ex coal miners. These folks are clustered in critical voting districts where there is literally no work outside of Walmart, the mines and a handful of service jobs (doctors to treat black lung, police to lock up the occasional drunk miner, etc).
Folks are confused why these guys would fight so hard to mine coal given the health and safety risks. Folks who wonder that have never been without a job for 12 months and counting....
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as in "Pb"
How's that 'draining the swamp' thing workin' out for you guys? AC
... someone who actually knows about stuff. Eek.
I propose a novel approach to fight global warming. We'll remove all the filters from coal power stations and emit all that marvelous dust into the atmosphere so we can block out the sun's rays and hence reduce global temperature.
Andrew Wheeler is helping Make America Great Again by bringing back those glory days when rivers routinely caught fire.
"Grab them by the pussy" -- President of the United States of America
Tell us again how great your democracy is , how wonderful your freedom is.
Because countries with real democracies and greater freedoms are laughing hard at you.
Its obvious to the rest of us that your politicians are bought and paid for by industry, it is industry that actually runs the USA now, and you can NOT vote them out.
Incredible.
Most ACs are not even worth the keystrokes to insult them. Be generically insulted by this and ignored otherwise.
The guy who told me that censorship of blacks/women/gays was so meaningless that they shouldn't even be counted in stats of censorship is giving us a morality message?
Yep, he bashes minorities based on their minority status, or women because they are women, and then gets on his high horse to tell us we are not ethical.
Go back to VA, Northam is running KKK meetings in the Governor mansion.
Or if you prefer to bash women, I believe the Lt. Governor Fairfax is holding rape sessions in his house in VA.
Maybe you can follow it up by killing a live born baby to show how much you support abortion.
Is this a joke at this point?
To really know what his effect will be, you have to look beyond coal. His position on coal is irrelevant. Coal is dead -- being killed by economic forces. The handwriting is on the wall: it is going away, and it's not coming back in the next 20 years.
What else does he bring to the table?
It would be more surprising if the Wheeler _wasn't_ a kakistocrat.
Well I guess historians will have to add 'rise in cancer deaths' to the ever-growing list of shit Trump and his administration will inflict on us. Maybe the next president in 2020 will be able to get some of these assholes out and mitigate at least some of the damage.
Politicos lol? Wheeler has a history already, you dumb faggot. Just because you are too lazy and cowardly to find out about it doesn't mean it doesn't exist, you dumb faggot.
Step 1: Appoint industry cronies to regulate said industries.
Step 2: ?????
Step 3: No more regulatory capture!
Mod up please. I mean, how bad is the pollution if the river is catching fire -- let alone the long-term damage to the fish (very likely no longer edible) and other wildlife?
for that alternative. Folks are laughing off the Green New Deal as "Pie In the Sky" or just plain crazy, but I haven't heard a single solution to the widespread unemployment that grips the rust belt.
That's what made Trump win. He listened to what folks like those coal miners were saying and promised them their jobs back. Heck, he even tried (a little) by trying to declare coal a national emergency so he could divert subsidies to them. Now, odds are most of that would have gone to the mine owners, but there'd at least be jobs in the meantime.
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so that's not the best analogy... The need an entirely new type of work, but also one that they're capable of doing. "Learn to Code" is not an answer. I've worked with ex-miners who tried that. One one ever lasted more than 6 months, and that guy quit after 18 or so.
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Are good wholesome Republican jobs supporting conservative values like 'justice' and 'toiling your peasant body unto your death as god intended'. Those meth jobs are filthy liberal Democrat jobs, without enough toil and supporting hedonistic lifestyles that go against God's teachings.
See the problem?
Like putting a RAT in charge of the cheese-larder...
Cohen testified he was in the room when Trump Jr. came in and said what he testified Jr. said. That's not hearsay, that's direct testimony from someone who was in the room. It's evidence. You're a retarded traitor lol.
Also it's testimony indicating Jr. lied to Congress, which is going to be quite thoroughly investigated, lol, you can take my word on that you punk ass illiterate traitor.
Andrew Wheeler To “LEAD” EPA
What exactly are we supposed to do about this?
The guys with the guns don't seem to think that there's a problem, and the ones who think there's a problem are too chickenshit to get up and fight. Meanwhile, the corporate owners of the Republicratic Party (and therefore the government) are laughing their asses off at both sides.
Go on, citizen, stamp the vote card. R or D, your choice.
who took a coal mining course at his local community college. The interview asked him why he'd do that when there were other courses and very few mining jobs.
His answer was pretty sound. The only jobs in his town were at the mine and at Walmart. He could take another course, but then he'd have to move. That meant leaving friends and family behind, the town he grew up in, and coming up with the money to move a long distance and get an apartment in an unfamiliar city.
Basically, we've backed these kids into a corner where all their choices are bad.
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There must be some way to spin this and blame China?
Up for the challenge, or laying low and hoping it blows over?
Yup. yup. yup. yup!
At the same time I was in a Navy uniform and facing our primary enemy, the communists, during the Cold War a guy named John Brennan was voting for a Communist to be president of the US and to implement unilateral disarmament. Oh, and of course Communist leaders never permit free elections to occur after they get "elected" which is part of why Brennan's vote is so vile.
then a few years passed
and then President Obama named that John Brennan to be head of the CIA, where he ultimately used his government position to spy on an opposition party's presidential candidate, tried to defeat that candidate, then tried to keep him from taking office after he won, and then tried to sabotage his administration after he was sworn in. That same John Brennan continues to be a regular "expert" talking head on cable TV programs as he continues to try to subvert the duly elected president he tried to sabotage.
I'm a LOT less worried about the EPA being led by a coal lobbyist for a handful of years (up to 6 at maximum) than I am by the prospect of an avowed communist running the CIA and using a fake garbage "dossier" made by Russian and British spies and paid for by Hillary Clinton with laundered money to try to sabotage America's election process.
Hillary Clinton used to agree about the importance of our Democratic processes:
“That’s horrifying, Let’s be clear about what he is saying and what that means. He is denigrating [pause] he is talking down our democracy. And I am appalled that someone who is the nominee of one of our two major parties would take that position.” - Hillary Clinton during 2016 presidential debate
“The peaceful transfer of power is one of the things that makes America America.” - Hillary Clinton in 2016
“To say you won't respect the results of the election, that is a direct threat to our democracy, We've been around 240 years. We've had free and fair elections and we've accepted the outcomes when we may not have liked them and that is what must be expected of anyone standing on a debate stage during a general election .... Look, some people are just sore losers,” - Hillary Clinton in 2016
Then she lost to Trump.
“We don’t have a method for contesting that in our system. That’s why I’ve long advocated for an independent commission to get to the bottom of what happened.” - Hillary Clinton in 2017 interview clearly implying she'd contest the 2016 election if there were a process to do it, but thast she must settle for some extra-constitutional scheme to undermine Trump as the only alternative.
the biggest lie in American history: "Trump colluded with Russia" backed up by a fake dossier created by a British spy and his Russian spy friends, paid for by Hillary Clinton, and run through the DOJ, FBI, and CIA by Obama appointees --- and talked-up relentlessly by Democrats at ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC, etc for over two years so that half of America believes it even though the author of the Dossier (Mr. Steel) has testified under oath in a British court that he is unaware of any elements of the dossier being truthful. The biggest mouthpieces for the lie have been John Brennan (Presidnet Obama's CIA director) and James Clapper (President Obama's Direcor of National Intelligence) --- incidentally both of whom have lied under oath to congress about spying on the American people.
The preposterous lie told over and over and over until people believe it, by experts in deceit and disinformation.
What a bunch of idiots. There is no such thing as 'catastrophic man-made global warming'.
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Up next will be APK for cyber security Czar
Isn't that kind of like the fox guarding the hen house?
And this is the Big Lie told by Deplorables.
Trump lies all the time, about everything. Stupid stuff yes, but also important stuff. His supporters simply choose to hear what they want to hear, see what they want to see, and lie about stuff that is important.
Republicans have sold their souls, no more needs to be said.