Palin eyeing energy secretary in potential Trump administration

[brooklynite]

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Source: CNN

Sarah Palin knows the position she wants in a Donald Trump administration: Energy secretary.

"I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby: oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth for mankind's use instead of us relying on unfriendly foreign nations," she told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday on "State of the Union."

But Palin, the GOP's 2008 vice presidential nominee, might be the first potential cabinet member to openly speak about dissolving their office.

"I'd get rid of (the Energy Department). And I'd let the states start having more control over the lands that are within their boundaries and the people who are affected by the developments within their states. If I were in charge of that, it would be a short-term job, but it would be ... really great to have someone who knows energy and is pro-responsible development to be in charge."

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/06/politics/sarah-palin-energy-secretary/

[jberryhill]

1. The Department of Energy also is responsible for nuclear weapons

....which Palin should under no circumstances be allowed anywhere near.

[LuckyLib]

2. No, no, please, make it stop. This whole circus just keeps getting more and more

bizarre!

[VMA131Marine]

3. Palin doesn't know a single useful thing about energy

She knows even less about the Department of Energy

[notadmblnd]

8. I beg to differ. She knows how to turn on a light switch AND they have oil in Alaska

Tha practically makes her an expert in TRumps eyes.

[Chakab]

4. How does this stupidity go unchecked? First off, an appointed cabinet Secretary has no power to

abolish their own department.

Secondly, most of the regulatory powers that she's talking about fall under the purview of the Department of the Interior.

[Retrograde]

10. True, but think of all the "honoraria" and other considerations from oil companies

and other energy firms. That's probably something the Alaskan grifter understands.

[63splitwindow]

5. Her ignorance is profound... nt

[karynnj]

6. Secretary Moniz ..... to .... Secretary Palin

I would say that might be cutting the IQ by a factor of 10, but that could understate just how much more intelligent Moniz is.

[Botany]

13. Ernie Moniz

B.S. w/ honors Boston U
PhD Stanford Physics
Professor of Physics MIT
Chair Dept. of Physics MIT
30 years working nuclear weapons and materials non proliferation
Renewable/Green Energy 40 + years
and a bunch of other "stuff"

Sarah Palin .... I can see Russia from Alaska/ (2 islands in the middle of the Bering Sea neither
one Ms. Palin had ever been on)

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. And before him Steven Chu, Nobel Physics prize winner

The seriousness of the Obama administration, and the complete farce and insult to the world that a Trump administration would be, are well summed up by this.

[Botany]

17. The other side argues politics and we argue facts

CO 2 molecular weight = 44

O2 molecular weight = 32

since CO2 has more mass it can hold more heat then O2 but even these facts
can be sold as a matter of doubt for political reasons and so we have doubt about
climate change.



70 ton (coal) car .... I see them all the time and yet they argue that we still don't
know.

Thanx for posting about Dr. Chu.

[Sophiegirl]

7. But...but...but...

Trump must think she has high energy!

[tanyev]

9. Help us, Tina Fey. You're our only hope!

[tom_kelly]

11. She shouldn't quit her day job yet. Wait! She already did. n/t

[Eric the Drunk]

12. Not Secretary of Education?

[Rosa Luxemburg]

14. LOL!

she won't have to worry because Earth will be dust if Trump is president

[vkkv]

15. Smart as a WHIP!

Literally.

[tabasco]

18. Yeah, let's let Palin replace a Ph.D.

Great plan.

[In_The_Wind]

19. Locking

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