Palin eyeing energy secretary in potential Trump administration
Source: CNN
Washington (CNN)Sarah Palin knows the position she wants in a Donald Trump administration: Energy secretary.
"I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby: oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth for mankind's use instead of us relying on unfriendly foreign nations," she told CNN's Jake Tapper in an interview that aired Sunday on "State of the Union."
But Palin, the GOP's 2008 vice presidential nominee, might be the first potential cabinet member to openly speak about dissolving their office.
"I'd get rid of (the Energy Department). And I'd let the states start having more control over the lands that are within their boundaries and the people who are affected by the developments within their states. If I were in charge of that, it would be a short-term job, but it would be ... really great to have someone who knows energy and is pro-responsible development to be in charge."
Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/06/politics/sarah-palin-energy-secretary/index.html
I don't know whether to laugh or cry.
Erich Bloodaxe BSN
(14,733 posts)truthisfreedom
(23,148 posts)The last thing we need is caribou barbie wasting our precious resources.
Sunlei
(22,651 posts)all their fishing inlets and bays will be totally silted in.
ToxMarz
(2,169 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)marmar
(77,081 posts)And Idiocracy would officially become a documentary.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)It's got electrolytes. It's what plants crave.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Was this one born between Bristol and Willow? Or was it after Tripp?
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)I just got done watching that movie for the umpteenth time. Couldn't help but think of all the Trump supporters and Fox News watchers.
mdbl
(4,973 posts)I remember the first time watching that movie as a comedy. Now I watch it as a prophecy.
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)And I don't mean 'minor' as in "CNN's 'State of the Union'". I mean minor as in "One America News Network".
Palin has been dropped by conservatives. Why is CNN trying to shore up her media career?
tabasco
(22,974 posts)CNN is trying to sink Trump's campaign.
America certainly has been dumbed down by the mass media, but are the people stupid enough yet to support an imbecile like Palin as a cabinet secretary? I suppose if they pull the lever for Trump, they probably are.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)and the rest of it is unlikely to be put off by her announcing which job she'd like to quite early from next.
ShrimpPoboy
(301 posts)and watching/clicking. As long as Palin news generates interest (money) they'll keep printing it.
Unfortunately however I think Trump is crazy/spineless enough to give her real power. Like many on the far right, he loves to do things just to spite the other side, regardless of the logic or consequences.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,321 posts)I have no idea what Trump would do for a cabinet, if the USA were crazy enough to elect him. He might not want a publicity seeker like Palin completing with him. He might have vague ideas of competence being necessary, which would rule her out (after all, he needs the USA to remain in existence for his wealth and publicity seeking). Or he might, as you say, just appoint her to troll the world.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Rumor has it she will be employed by CNN during the elections, and before. Giving her "expert" opinions on all things political. She had such a sterling career, serving only half her appointment as governor.Maybe they could keep her on, giving advice on raising families? Her oldest daughter is about to give birth to her 5th illigitimate child, and does not know WHO the father is!!
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)Victoria Jackson was unavailable! Maybe next week Tapper will have Kim Kardasian on, talking about the state of the economy?
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Indeed he has, Sarah! That's how YOU came to be!
underpants
(182,829 posts)Not that I have anything against Alaska.
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)We'll take whatever resources Alaska wants to yield - just no more quitter governors!
trusty elf
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Gothmog
(145,321 posts)justhanginon
(3,290 posts)Meant to be sarcastic but with Arne Duncan holding that position now it might not have much effect.
It would be so much better if she just went away.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)but I might be wrong.
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)has a Plan B. Trump will be President on the first week of Never.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)OK, that makes total Palinsense: she can quit half-way through the term.
A Simple Game
(9,214 posts)Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)Last edited Sun Sep 6, 2015, 01:41 PM - Edit history (2)
My point was that Spencer Abraham co-sponsored a bill to abolish the Department of Energy. He later was appointed by GW Bush to be the Secretary of Energy.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)underpants
(182,829 posts)Hostile takeover and then fire yourself. It's hers. She thought it all up by herself.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)if properly executed. We should look into that: direct the "hostile" part at the CEOs.
EEO
(1,620 posts)Botany
(70,516 posts)Which she quit when she found out it was work.
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)I honestly can't wait for the Greenland ice shelf to drop. These kinds would be in denial as they tread water.
turbinetree
(24,703 posts)Wharton School of Business graduate, hire a failed news announcer who quit her job as a governor.
Let's see a bankruptcy king, and a failed I quit my job governor what could possibly go wrong.
Did he really check her background, because apparently he didn't see what happened with the last guy that did this, lost---big time.
Honk------------------for a political revolution Bernie 2016
Android3.14
(5,402 posts)"...oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the Earth"
So your god, the Creator of this clockwork universe a few thousand years ago just willynilly "dumps" things on the planet.
LiberalElite
(14,691 posts)how do you explain the fact that your God also "dumped" oil on the deserts where the Muslin Saudis live? That Lord sure does work in mysterious ways....
vkkv
(3,384 posts)Arkana
(24,347 posts)underpants
(182,829 posts)Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)because she needs a place to hang all her clothes, she stole during the McCain campaign.
SmittynMo
(3,544 posts)It will be the end of Trump. Just like she destroyed McCain. She's bad news for anyone associated with her. Kinda like a rotten apple. Bring on the gnats.
romanic
(2,841 posts)just stay in Alaska gurl.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)jmowreader
(50,559 posts)...because any Republican in her right mind would issue this dangerous woman a one-way ticket to there, then have her passport cancelled while she was in flight.
bucolic_frolic
(43,182 posts)and Fiorina will be Secretary of the Interior
Environmental laws and stewardship will mean nothing
47of74
(18,470 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Herman4747
(1,825 posts)Incredible that she thinks she could handle such a job.
roguevalley
(40,656 posts)karynnj
(59,504 posts)Department - very key expert on the Iran deal ..... followed by a half term governor, who went to 5 colleges before eking out a diploma in communications.
I don't know what is harder to imagine - a loud mouth reality tV entertainer as President OR this woman as Secretary of Energy.
Herman4747
(1,825 posts)It's good to know that Obama did go for extremely high-quality.
karynnj
(59,504 posts)When oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico, Dr Chu was very important in devising the government plan to deal with it. In Moniz's case, he worked incredibly well with Kerry - both in taking the lead on the critical technical details and on selling it. Nothing was more pathetic that Ted Cruz acting as if Moniz somehow did not understand things he did on nuclear issues!
SummerSnow
(12,608 posts)WRITTEN BY SCOTT SUTTON POSTED: 07/01/2015,
While everyone was caught up in the grossness that was the Duggar scandal last month, the world missed Sarah Palins groundbreaking ideas on how to fix Californias historic drought.
On the Sarah Palin Channel which, believe it or not, people actually pay $99.99 per year for she released a video clip of her describing how perfect California is except for one thing: its politicians.
California has been suffering from a long-term drought; most people are aware of that, Palin says in the video.
Governor Browns answer, though, to that drought is to impose a 25% water reduction on Californias cities and towns. His main target are [sic] those really nice landscapes and lawns on golf courses and campuses and cemeteries and private property, your yards! Well, as long as those, long showers that maybe you take. [sic]
(For the record, Gov. Jerry Brown said hes been skipping showers whenever possible to help out the cause.)
Yes, it is too bad that Californias 860 golf courses, which use an average of 90 million gallons of water apiece per year, have to cut back.
So Palin thought of a brilliant solution:
You might ask, though, why dont they just fix the infrastructure problem, why dont they just build more reservoirs and plants? After all, California is a coastal state. Its got a whole ocean right there, water all around ya.
Because, yes, building reservoirs to store the water you dont have makes perfect sense.
And as for the water all around ya part, Palin goes on to say that because California is Americas petri dish for left wing lunacy, those darned environmentalists have been preventing the construction of more desalination plants in the state, pointing out the fact that said plants do, in fact, need a whole bunch of energy to operate.
Lets fact check that really quick. According to this SF Gate story published in February (thats a few month before Palin recorded this video message) 17 desalination plants are already in the planning stages in California.
However, the plants cost anywhere from $150 million to $1 billion apiece, which will surely eat up a large chunk of the states projected $4.2 billion surplus very quickly.
So no, environmentalists and the Left have not been stopping the state from building desalination plants, they just simply cannot be built overnight.
http://national.suntimes.com/national-world-news/7/72/1395381/sarah-palin-california-drought-build-more-reservoirs
*What a damn moron*
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)Geronimoe
(1,539 posts)see if she can manage that.
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)Nothing Palin does (short of a suicide or homicide) rises to the level of LBN. All her antics and shenanigans should thus be relegated to another section.
tabasco
(22,974 posts)Good luck!
http://websitesetup.org/
cosmicone
(11,014 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)topped at a job that only requires only a little Bible indoctrination, such as a county clerk in Kentucky. There, she could use the power of her office to torment citizens exercising their rights to various licenses and to chip away at President Obama's legacy.
cloudbase
(5,520 posts)OldRedneck
(1,397 posts)Today is the first anniversary of the Palin Family Drunken Brawl. Go to this link to read all about it:
http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2015/09/remembering-anchorage-brawl-has-it-been.html
Short version:
-- The Palin family loaded up into a stretch Hummer limo to crash the birthday party of one of Todd's friends, just before midnight, 6 Sep 2014.
-- Daddy Todd, Mother Sarah, Son Track, Daughters Bristol and Willow -- all of them shit-faced knee-walking drunk. In the limo also was 5-yr-old Tripp.
-- Upon arrival, Track confronted a couple of women whom he said were talking trash about his slutty sister. Their husbands intervened, Track threw a few punches, and the husbands whomped on him.
-- Bristol started punching the host, who tried to avoid her, finally, he and a couple of friends threw her to the ground and dragged her away.
-- Highlights of the police audio and photos include: Bristol standing in the street, peeing down her leg; Sarah shrieking "Do you know who we are?"; someone in the crowd replying "This ain't no damn hillbilly reality show!"; Bristol dropping one F-bomb after another; Sarah shrieking at Bristol "Don't curse at the cops!"; Bristol sobbing at the cops "They broke my f###ing $300 sunglasses!! My face is covered in beer and makeup!"; Todd standing, shirtless and bleeding, in the street throwing punches at his father.
Palin Christian values on display.
AnnieBW
(10,429 posts)Or, as my husband (who works there) just said, take her on a tour of the unshielded section.
Helen Borg
(3,963 posts)Will certainly find a solution to the world's energy problems.
underpants
(182,829 posts)Instead of quitting her job 1/2 way through she is going to fire herself from the get-go.
She is evolving.
The mythical confirmation hearings would be a hoot though.
tanyev
(42,567 posts)Gothmog
(145,321 posts)Live and Learn
(12,769 posts)From a comment I read on another message board.
yurbud
(39,405 posts)Princess Turandot
(4,787 posts)yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Energy Dept. The Energy Dept has zero control over oil leases, minerals, etc.
Iwillnevergiveup
(9,298 posts)But Sarah DOES have lots of experience with energy - the hot air kind.
donna123
(182 posts)cause the thought of her in govt makes most of the country run for the hills. I've noticed she's developed this ugliness in her face. I'm being sincere. When she first was introduced to the nation, while the thought of her as VP scared me shitless, I acknowledged that she was pretty but now, it seems things have taken a toll on her and it manifests in her face and it's developed this ugliness.
The biggest hole Colbert and Jon Stewart being off air has left is having guests on who are not these media figures, who actually have some knowledge and depth of issues. Of course it helps doing this with comedic bent. Our MSM always broadcasts these same people, does not educate, does not let us know what real issues are. The same talking heads again and again, and then of course giving media air to idiots like Palin.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)Peregrine
(992 posts)the manufacture of nuclear material and warheads.