Rick Perry Said to Be Trumps Top Candidate for Energy Secretary

[brooklynite]

Source: Bloomberg

Donald Trump has narrowed his search for energy secretary to four people, with former Texas Governor Rick Perry the leading candidate, said people familiar with the president-elect’s selection process.

Two Democratic senators from energy-producing states -- Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota and Joe Manchin of West Virginia -- are also in the mix, along with Ray Washburne, a Dallas investor and former chairman of the Republican National Committee.

Trump met with Perry and Washburne while attending the Army-Navy football game in Baltimore on Saturday. It was at least the second time he’d spoken to the two men for potential roles in the new administration.

Trump is scheduled to meet with Manchin in New York. Heitkamp met with Trump on Dec. 2.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-12-11/rick-perry-said-to-be-trump-s-top-candidate-for-energy-secretary?utm_content=politics&utm_campaign=socialflow-organic&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&cmpid%3D=socialflow-twitter-politics

[tosh]

1. OMG...

was hoping this linked The Onion.

[Blue Shoes]

18. The onion wasn't satire. It was simply predicting the future

http://www.theonion.com/video/after-obama-victory-shrieking-white-hot-sphere-of--30284

[tosh]

23. Whoa!

So it was!

[ananda]

2. And why not?

This is the cabinet of clowns, idiots and cronies ..
a true ship of fools.

[Generator]

14. I know get me out of here

[flamingdem]

3. Dumb as a box of rocks

and a perfect assclown to distract from deals with our enemies, etc

[Mira]

4. OH MY GOD, I hope

that dumb mofo will at least wear his glasses.

[Botany]

5. His "am smart glasses?"

I'll give you three good reasons for him to be sec. of energy.

1 His car uses gas.

2 He can turn on and off a light switch.

3 ah ah ah ah help me out on this

[Island Blue]

6. I'm sure he eats beans once in a while

and therefore produces his own natural gas.

[rurallib]

8. he can spell oil and gas but not sun

[wordpix]

22. can't spell wind, either, and biomass is a non-starter

[duffyduff]

7. Oh, FFS.

Foxes guarding henhouses.

Trump is flipping the bird at this country.

[Plucketeer]

9. OOPS!

[muriel_volestrangler]

10. "Drill, baby, .... uhhh ... I forgot the third word" (nt)

[wordpix]

11. a dummy who'll do whatever Tillerson, Pooty and Drumpf want

perfect

[shadowmayor]

12. Good Gawd

Maple Syrup for all my friends!!!!

[Loki]

13. As long as he doesn't have to remember three things,

God, does this get any worse?

[keithbvadu2]

15. Another drunken speech coming?

.

[wordpix]

21. this should be broadcast daily. What an idiot, whether it's alcohol or ...

the guy's a nincompoop. He doesn't have to be drunk, stoned or coked up to demonstrate that

[davsand]

16. Isn't he under crminal indictment?

Am I mis-remembering that?



Laura

[Eugene]

19. Not anymore.

A state court threw out the indictment last February.

[davsand]

20. Ah, guess I missed that.

I'm sure he'll just be a wonderful appointee, then. (Dripping with sarcasm.)





Laura

[FigTree]

17. Predictably,

he will surround himself with inferiors because the entire affair revolves around his small, fragile and possibly fragmented ego. As his own cognitive level is at best average, this means that his top administrators will likely be below average. A recipe for disaster. Disaster that should strike very quickly. As soon as confronted with reality.
This is supposed to be an optimistic post.

[dembotoz]

24. He will execute Trump's agenda by lethal injection

[6000eliot]

25. Oops.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

26. Wasn't that the agency he couldn't remember

when he was asked which three agencies he'd get rid of?

[Auntie Bush]

28. I was going to post that same question. Hope someone answers.

[Ilsa]

27. He's a crony capitalist. Took Texas' fracking windfall and

Passed it around to his buddies for their "high-tech" startups. (I think they considered their businesses high-tech if they needed an extension cord for an incandescent bulb.)

[CentralMass]

29. That guy is dumber then a box of rocks.

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[RAFisher]

30. The last 3 DOE secretaries had PhDs. DOE mostly deals with nuclear material and policy.

DOE is also responsible for the US's national labs. I don't know if people understand that a bulk of what DOE does deals with nuclear material and nuclear weapons.

(Technically Sec. Bodman has a Doctor of Science from MIT but essentially the same as a PhD from another institution)