NY Times Slashes Ryan Zinke As 'Not The Sharpest Knife In The Drawer'

[DonViejo]

12/16/2018 01:33 am ET

Editorial dings Interior secretary as another “cheerleader” for the president’s “boneheaded” energy strategy.

By Mary Papenfuss

The New York Times ripped outgoing Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke on Saturday as a cheerleader for President Donald Trump’s “boneheaded” policy of “energy dominance.” The editorial noted that Zinke is leaving his job under the shadow of an” impressive number” — 15 — “ethics investigations.”

Zinke “had a Western swagger to him that some found appealing, but on matters of public relations he was not the sharpest knife in the drawer,” the editorial declared.

“On his first day in office, Mr. Zinke rode a horse to work, in plain imitation of Teddy Roosevelt. As president, Mr. Roosevelt protected 230 million acres of American wilderness, including 18 national monuments. Ten months into his tenure as Interior Secretary, Mr. Zinke recommended the withdrawal of some two million acres from two national monuments in Utah established by Mr. Obama and Bill Clinton, the largest shrinkage of public land protection in history.”

Zinke has often boasted: “No one loves public land as much as I do.” But just this month his department detailed the Trump administration’s latest anti-environment scheme to open 9 million acres to drilling and mining by stripping protections for the ground-nesting sage grouse. It would open more land to drilling than any other action by the administration to date, the Times reported. “No one loves the sage grouse more than I do,” Zinke said last year.

Environmentalists are already steeling to battle Zinke’s No. 2, Deputy Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, who is expected to be named acting secretary when Zinke leaves.

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[MyOwnPeace]

1. How can we be sure

#2 David Bernhardt won't be an effective Secretary, just because he was formerly a lobbyist for the gas & oil industry?

[slingsam]

2. And that dull blade in the White House......

[2naSalit]

3. But wait, there's more!

Truly, this is just surface info.