Idéfix wrote:Other cabinet members under consideration:
Sarah Palin
Ben Carson
Chris Christie

And the legislative agenda includes the repeal of:
Obamacare
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act

FluteHolder wrote:Before Trump is at it, Obama 'pardons' Hillary.
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The same way, Eric Holder did not prosecute his $wall street friends who committed bank fraud?  But this should be special, getting a golden glove treatment before even charged?

Idéfix wrote:Other cabinet members under consideration:
Sarah Palin
Ben Carson
Chris Christie

And the legislative agenda includes the repeal of:
Obamacare
Clean Air Act
Clean Water Act

In 1980, President-elect Reagan nominated Watt as his Secretary of the Interior. The United States Senate subsequently confirmed the nomination.

His tenure as Secretary of the Interior was controversial, primarily because he was perceived as being hostile to environmentalism, and endorsed development of federal lands by foresting and ranching, and for other commercial interests.

Watt resisted accepting donation of private land to be used for conservation.[8] He suggested that 80 million acres (320,000 km²) of undeveloped land in the United States all be opened for drilling and mining by 2000.[8] The area leased to coal mining quintupled during his term as Secretary of the Interior.[8] Watt boasted that he leased "a billion acres" (4 million km²) of coastal waters, even though only a small portion of that area would ever be drilled.[8] Watt once stated, "We will mine more, drill more, cut more timber."[9]

Watt periodically mentioned his Dispensationalist Christian faith when discussing his method of environmental management. Speaking before Congress, he once said, "I do not know how many future generations we can count on before the Lord returns, whatever it is we have to manage with a skill to leave the resources needed for future generations."

Idéfix wrote:Yeah, Palin for Interior isn't the end of the world. She will open up the national parks for drilling and mining. The much bigger threats are to COP21, CAA, CWA -- if either CAA or CWA are repealed, it is the first time in history that a rich democracy sets the clock back on protecting the quality of its air and water. America's cities were plagued by smog and its rivers full of toxic sludge forty years ago. People have forgotten that those laws helped clean up the very air we breathe.