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Hassin Bin Sober

(26,337 posts) Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:13 PM Mar 2017

'Nonsensical and stupid and dangerous': Bernie Sanders slams Trump's executive order to repeal

Go Bernie!!

http://www.businessinsider.com/bernie-slams-trumps-executive-order-to-repeal-clean-power-plan-2017-3

'Nonsensical and stupid and dangerous': Bernie Sanders slams Trump's executive order to repeal climate regulations

Sen. Bernie Sanders lashed out at President Donald Trump on Thursday afternoon, calling the executive order Trump signed on Tuesday to repeal the Obama-era Clean Power Plan "nonsensical."

"That is such a nonsensical, and stupid, and dangerous, approach," the Vermont senator told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "It's almost indescribable."

The Clean Power Plan, negotiated by the Environmental Protection Agency under the Obama Administration, was designed to put strict limits on carbon emissions from power plants.

Trump signed an executive order on Tuesday — surrounded by coal miners and fossil fuel executives — to direct Scott Pruitt, the new EPA administrator, to begin the process of scrapping the regulations. The fossil fuel industry has long maintained that the regulations have caused job losses and profit contractions throughout the energy industry.

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He also can't do that Warpy Mar 2017 #1

Warpy

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1. He also can't do that

Reply to Hassin Bin Sober (Original post)

Thu Mar 30, 2017, 03:24 PM

Mar 2017

and will be slapped down by the courts.

Gov. Susana la Tejana Martinez here in NM tried to do that when she first got into office, a thank you to the Kochs. The courts slapped her hard within a week. She's been a lot more careful about governing by dictatorial fiat since then.

Nothing will stop Trump from acting like a tin pot dictator. The courts will just overturn every stupid thing Bannon comes up with and he'll move on to the next shiny thing.

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