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by chalkitdown » Wed Dec 07, 2016 1:51 pm



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by Hexx » Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:00 pm

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/12/t ... ies-232216

Office space is Trump Tower now being sold with "Secret Service" protection as a key amenity.

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by Irene Demova » Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:32 pm

Can you be impeached before taking office?

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by KK » Wed Dec 07, 2016 2:46 pm

This is radio, not television wrote:

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by Garth » Wed Dec 07, 2016 7:32 pm

Donald Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Ally of Fossil Fuel Industry, to Lead Environmental Protection Agency

President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, a transition official said, signaling Mr. Trump’s determination to dismantle President Obama’s efforts to counter climate change.

Mr. Pruitt, a Republican, has been a key architect of the legal battle against Mr. Obama’s climate change policies, actions that fit with the president-elect’s comments during the campaign. Mr. Trump has criticized the established science of human-caused global warming as a hoax, vowed to “cancel” the Paris accord committing nearly every nation to taking action to fight climate change, and attacked Mr. Obama’s signature global warming policy, the Clean Power Plan, as a “war on coal.”

Mr. Pruitt, 48, who has emerged as a hero to conservative activists, is also one of a number of Republican attorneys general who have formed an alliance with some of the nation’s top energy producers to push back against the Obama regulatory agenda, a 2014 investigation by The New York Times revealed.

At the heart of Mr. Obama’s efforts to tackle climate change are a collection of E.P.A. regulations aimed at forcing power plants to significantly reduce their emissions of planet-warming carbon dioxide pollution. It will not be possible for Mr. Trump to unilaterally cancel the rules, which were released under the 1970 Clean Air Act. But it would be possible for a legally experienced E.P.A. chief to substantially weaken, delay or slowly dismantle them.

As Oklahoma’s top law enforcement official, Mr. Pruitt has fought environmental regulations — particularly the climate change rules. Although Mr. Obama’s rules were not completed until 2015, Mr. Pruitt was one of a handful of attorneys general, along with Greg Abbott of Texas, who began planning as early as 2014 for a coordinated legal effort to fight them. That resulted in a 28-state lawsuit against the administration’s rules. A decision on the case is pending in a federal court, but it is widely expected to advance to the Supreme Court.

As Mr. Pruitt has sought to use legal tools to fight environmental regulations on the oil and gas companies that are a major part of his state’s economy, he has also worked with those companies. For example, the 2014 investigation by The Times found that energy lobbyists drafted letters for Mr. Pruitt to send, on state stationery, to the E.P.A., the Interior Department, the Office of Management and Budget and even President Obama, outlining the economic hardship of the environmental rules.

Industries that Mr. Pruitt regulates have also joined him as plaintiffs in court challenges, a departure from the usual role of the state attorney general, who traditionally sues companies to force compliance with state law.

The close ties have paid off for Mr. Pruitt politically: Harold G. Hamm, the chief executive of Continental Energy, a North Dakota oil and gas firm that also works in Oklahoma, was a co-chairman of Mr. Pruitt’s 2013 re-election campaign.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us/po ... trump.html

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by Alvin Flummux » Wed Dec 07, 2016 7:33 pm

Every new decision that man makes is like a punch to the gut.

I hope the Democrats annihilate him and his baleful ilk in 2020.

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by Snowcannon » Wed Dec 07, 2016 7:35 pm

The human race is finished

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by Memento Mori » Wed Dec 07, 2016 8:58 pm

The Washington Post wrote:(Al) Gore was in New York for the Climate Reality Project’s 24-hour live broadcast, “24 Hours of Reality,” and was invited to Trump Tower to discuss the topic by Trump’s oldest daughter, Ivanka, who is not registered with a political party and has pushed her father to adopt some positions usually promoted by Democrats.

“I had a lengthy and very productive session with the president-elect. It was a sincere search for areas of common ground,” Gore told reporters after spending about 90 minutes at Trump Tower in Manhattan during the lunch hour Monday. “I had a meeting beforehand with Ivanka Trump. The bulk of the time was with the president-elect, Donald Trump. I found it an extremely interesting conversation, and to be continued, and I'm just going to leave it at that.”

Huh.

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Donald Trump Picks Scott Pruitt, Ally of Fossil Fuel Industry, to Lead Environmental Protection Agency

President-elect Donald J. Trump has selected Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma attorney general and a close ally of the fossil fuel industry, to run the Environmental Protection Agency, a transition official said, signaling Mr. Trump’s determination to dismantle President Obama’s efforts to counter climate change.


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/07/us/po ... trump.html




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PostRe: The American Politics Thread
by Garth » Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:06 pm

He repeatedly tells people what they want to hear, it's difficult to know what his real beliefs are until he acts upon them.

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by Alvin Flummux » Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:08 pm

The "Heartbeat Bill," which limits the legal time period for when abortions can be performed to before women even know they're pregnant, with no rape or incest exceptions, has passed the Ohioan legislature. Kasich is likely to sign it. :fp: :dread:

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by Irene Demova » Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:16 pm

Alvin Flummux wrote:The "Heartbeat Bill," which limits the legal time period for when abortions can be performed to before women even know they're pregnant, with no rape or incest exceptions, has passed the Ohioan legislature. Kasich is likely to sign it. :fp: :dread:

strawberry floaters are getting away with it by proposing even stupider abortion bills and then tying a slightly milder one to much needed legislation (in this case for adoption)

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by Alvin Flummux » Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:29 pm

Irene Demova wrote:
Alvin Flummux wrote:The "Heartbeat Bill," which limits the legal time period for when abortions can be performed to before women even know they're pregnant, with no rape or incest exceptions, has passed the Ohioan legislature. Kasich is likely to sign it. :fp: :dread:

strawberry floaters are getting away with it by proposing even stupider abortion bills and then tying a slightly milder one to much needed legislation (in this case for adoption)


The Democrats should troll them by doing to exact same thing.

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread
by KK » Wed Dec 07, 2016 9:43 pm

Compromise would indicate perhaps the length of time you can have an abortion is too long and should be reduced. Surely that would be a more sensible approach.

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by Memento Mori » Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:01 pm

Just had a look back at this thread the day after the 2012 election. This caught my eye:

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by Memento Mori » Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:07 pm

The 68-year-old McMahon was a major Trump backer during his campaign, giving $6 million to a pro-Trump super PAC.


Building that swamp.

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by Lex-Man » Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:17 pm

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The 68-year-old McMahon was a major Trump backer during his campaign, giving $6 million to a pro-Trump super PAC.


Building that swamp.


Didn't see run for the senate at one point, didn't she?

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread
by KK » Wed Dec 07, 2016 10:44 pm

Good to know my £9.99 a month on the WWE Network is funding good things in America...

WWE for a number of years has had a massive disconnect with its fanbase because the owners and many of the old-school wrestlers are Republicans. The audience however is Democrat, and one of the most left-leaning of any sports organisation in America second only to the NBA and WNBA. Unfortunately WWE fans don't tend to vote, and are often deemed to be low educated and/or poorly paid. Like the NBA it also has a large black audience. Basically everyone most likely to be affected by a Trump presidency. In comparison, Golf, College football and NASCAR is GOP and voter turnout is high.

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by Alvin Flummux » Wed Dec 07, 2016 11:12 pm

TV Dinner wrote:
The 68-year-old McMahon was a major Trump backer during his campaign, giving $6 million to a pro-Trump super PAC.


Building that swamp.


He's draining it into his administration.

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PostRe: The American Politics Thread
by KK » Thu Dec 08, 2016 11:06 am

Sky Views wrote:Hannah Thomas-Peter, New York Correspondent

President-elect Donald Trump is reportedly going to name Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

He is a climate change sceptic.

He has also launched legal action against the very agency he is being tapped to lead.

His pending appointment has been described as "the fox guarding the hen house", and has outraged environmentalists.

But it has also delighted the fossil fuel industry, whose supporters have long believed that they are the victims of overbearing and unworkable regulation.

Up until now Trump has remained typically opaque on energy and climate issues.

During his campaign he promised to pull America out of the Paris climate deal, although he has since declared he would keep an open mind on the issue.

He also met leading environmental activist Al Gore at his office in Trump Tower.

But Pruitt's appointment, which will be vigorously opposed by people like Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders, telegraphs the direction of the Trump administration loud and clear.

In part, Trump rode to victory on the backs of out of work miners in the industrial Midwest.

He promised over and over again that he would put them back to work.

In recent weeks he has softened his positions on a whole variety of campaign pledges.

But not this one.

It appears the new leader of the free world really does believe that Barack Obama's environmental legacy is strangling the economy.

And with the appointment of Pruitt, Trump is ensuring that legacy will be unpicked, at a potentially huge long-term cost to the global community.

http://news.sky.com/story/sky-views-tru ... l-10687317

Is there really much point in me buying that energy saving light bulb...

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