Rick Perry:Secretary of Nukes, Not Energy

[HAB911]

By Jeffrey Lewis

The department spends most of its time and money on nuclear weapons, not oil, and played a critical role in the Iran deal. Governor Oops isn’t remotely qualified to run it.

As a nuclear weapons nerd, I do love a presidential transition. Every four or eight years, I get to watch beffudled politicians discover that the United States Department of Energy doesn’t actually have anything to do with energy policy. It would be more accurately named the Department of Nuclear Weapons.

If you didn't know that, or forgot, it’s OK. Rick Perry probably forgot, too.

Yes, the former Texas governor is reportedly President-elect Donald Trump’s choice to be the Secretary of Energy. The same Rick Perry who’s gaffe-studded run for the 2012 Republican nomination for president included a promise to abolish three federal departments – Commerce, Education and … he couldn’t remember the third. But the third was the Energy Department because of course it was.

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/12/13/rick-perry-will-really-run-the-department-of-nukes-not-energy.html

[Vinca]

1. It's mind blowing to think a nuclear physicist is being replaced by this numbnut.

[FarCenter]

2. Bomb making and submarine reactors are it origin, but it has grown a lot since then.

For example, the National Laboratories have gotten into a lot of other research areas beyond nuclear.

[Dave Starsky]

3. Oh, well, that makes me feel so much better.

[HAB911]

4. ZERO Questions On Nuclear Weapons

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1127106776

[NightWatcher]

5. So he's not going to be drill baby drilling?

Trump will call for nukes to be launched and Perry will have lost them.

[bigtree]

6. I think this is shortsighted and incorrect

......there are numerous oil and gas initiatives, including the Strategic Petroleum Reserve, natural gas, fossil energy, fracking, shale, and oil exploration which are managed by the Energy Dept.

Moreover, enabling the oil executive into the administration, with direct access to the President IS a corrupt, conflict-of-interest that should not be allowed to happen.

[HAB911]

7. Cool, Rick Perry Flunked Chemistry Course in College

A report in the Daily Beast included a copy of Perry’s transcript from Texas A&M, which the former Governor graduated in 1972 with an Animal Science degree. The transcript shows that Perry had difficulty with some of his science courses.

In the spring of 1970, he flunked Organic Chemistry II. He also got a C in physics, and a number of other C’s and D’s.