Squirrel-Hair gets more enigmatic by the day.
Less than a week after he meets with Al Gore - with climate-change-hooey-swallowing daughter Ivanka by his side - he appoints Oklahoma AG Scott Pruitt as EPA head.
Somebody with his head on straight has S-H's ear.
Obviously, the first thing to be said is that it is a glorious move. Pruitt understands that the Clean Power Plan, the Clean Water Act and the Paris Accord are tyranny of the rankest sort. He's long been involved as an attorney in defending individual freedom against government heavy-handedness.
I could cite / link to myriad examples of the Freedom-Haters gnashing their teeth and peeing their pants - Think Progress, Daily Kos and Mother Jones are all having seizures over it - but I think the one I'll share here is the "objective journalism" report on it, from the pale, sweaty, gasping and convulsing New York Times, which characterizes Pruitt as a "climate change denialist" in the title.
I don't like Donald Trump a bit more than I ever did, but he's been guided into making some brilliant moves lately, and the Freedom-Haters know it.
Their moment to steer the course of our civilization is over, and their agony about that is palpable.
Gore & Romney were called in for boot licking.
ReplyDeleteI think the some bodies with their heads on straight advising Trump are Newt and Mike.
ReplyDeleteS-H seems to respect Mike.
ReplyDeleteBut actually I have a bone to pick with Mike. A remark like this - "“The free market has been sorting [the economy] out and America has been losing.” - seems to indicate that the rubbing-off process may be going both ways.