Meanwhile, in New Mexico, The republicans push ahead with crap

[n2doc]

Ex-astronaut out as New Mexico Energy czar
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February 11, 2011 | 4:14 pm


Former astronaut and state legislator Harrison Schmitt has withdrawn his nomination to become New Mexico's head of the department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department, the latest setback as the state's new Republican governor tries to reverse her Democratic predecessor's environmental regulations.

Gov. Susana Martinez was handed her first setback late last month, when the state Supreme Court ruled that her attempts to reverse carbon-emission mandates set by a panel appointed by the previous governor, Bill Richardson, were illegal. Martinez also fired all the members of the Environmental Improvement Board that had written the rules.

Martinez had tapped Schmitt, a Harvard-educated geologist and skeptic of global warming who has compared the environmental movement to communism, to run the Energy department. He would have been the point man on loosening environmental regulations on the oil and gas industry imposed by Richardson that the industry contends have caused a sharp drop-off in exploration -- and jobs -- in New Mexico.

But Schmitt would not consent to a mandated background check, and withdrew Thursday afternoon.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/greenspace/2011/02/astronaut-new-mexico-energy.html

Bet there are some skeletons in that wingnut's closet....

[Gman]

1. They're all nuts which is why it's very likely

there's something there in his background.

[ladjf]

2. Republicans are just one component of the many right-wing

people who, since childhood, have be trained to decouple themselves from reality and to replace
that with fabricated "truths".

[wtmusic]

3. Schmitt was the clown who claimed there was less "Artic" sea ice in 1989

and got his head handed to him. :applause: