Donald Trump chooses Rick Perry to be energy secretary

[highplainsdem]

Source: CBS News

Donald Trump has selected Rick Perry to be energy secretary, according to two sources directly involved in the transition and selection process.

He had been summoned to Trump Tower for a meeting Monday to discuss the position after having been contacted over the weekend. The meeting was only finalized on Sunday.

The other contenders for the position were Sen. Joe Manchin, D-West Virginia, and Ray Washburne, a key Trump fundraiser, former RNC finance chair, restaurateur and investor in oil and gas operations.

The former Texas governor sits on two corporate boards - one of them is Energy Transfer Partners - and that may present a confirmation issue. Energy Transfer Partners has a subsidiary known as Dakota Access LLC, which is attempting to build the Dakota Access Pipeline. That Dakota Access Pipeline has been the subject of public protests over its potential environmental impact and damage to Native American lands.

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Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-rick-perry-energy-secretary/

[bucolic_frolic]

1. The Brain Trust is complete

now that the smartest guy in the room is aboard

[rpannier]

23. Still awaiting his Ag Pick

Maybe he'll pick some guy who grows wheat or something
But does it badly because he's incompetent
And he'll blame the government

[bucolic_frolic]

39. Expect the opposite

of 'Peace, Land, Bread'

Lurching from weekly crisis to crisis is the method as well as the goal

[Bob Loblaw]

48. Probably

a militant gluten-free anti wheat advocate.

[lagomorph777]

44. Total Oiligarchy

The rest of the world will be furious when we fry our planet in oil. That's not a secure situation to be in.

[Laurian]

2. This transition is like a really, really bad joke.

[MadBadger]

3. Is this real life?

[pangaia]

10. ONION time !:))))))))))))))))

[Dream Girl]

4. Is he wearing his "smart glasses"? reminds me of bunny rabbit on Captain Kanagaroo

and yes, I'm that old...

[Grassy Knoll]

12. LOL..

[Dream Girl]

46. Where'd you get that bunny rabbit? he looks kind of menacing

[awoke_in_2003]

52. What's he do- nibble your bum?

Oops, wrong rabbit.

[montana_hazeleyes]

16. I watched that too!

Is that the one that had "froggy gremlin"? I loved him, he was a real smart ass.

[PoliticAverse]

26. I expect the pink pong balls will be dropping on us all at any moment...

[Different Drummer]

47. Same here! n/t

[uppityperson]

5. Way to "drain the swamp"

[rpannier]

32. Got to drain it

to refill it with new muck

[Flatpicker]

6. I'm sure there's 3 things Rick will get to.

[dhill926]

7. And not The Onion

shit is surreal…

[RandySF]

8. Ironic

A dimbulb running the Energy Department.

[doc03]

9. Wasn't that one of those agencies he was going to eliminate? nt

[Spitfire of ATJ]

15. Commerce and ejumacation.

[SHRED]

20. yes

Perry has been tapped to lead an agency he has suggested should be shut down. Although when Perry ran for the 2012 GOP nomination, during a debate, he famously forgot the name one of the three agencies he had pledged to eliminate.

“The third agency of government I would -- I would do away with Education, the --Commerce...Commerce and, let’s see. I can’t. The third one, I can’t. Sorry -- oops,” he said.

[Glimmer of Hope]

42. I feel like I am being punked. Stop it.

[Cha]

11. Yeah, wouldn't want him to appoint anyone who didn't have

a conflict of interest to the post.

[Judi Lynn]

13. Oh, my god. Perry's also on the board of Energy Transfer Partners, which has hosed protesters

down during sub-freezing weather, blinded a young woman with a tear gas canister, I believe, and acted like monsters every day the actual owners of the area have demonstrated against that destructive pipeline.

How filthy, how hideously evil.

[montana_hazeleyes]

21. This is getting worse and worse every day. Damn, every hour.

We knew trump would be horrible, but it's even worse than imaginable.

[still_one]

14. I sure hope those self-identified progessives who refused to vote for Hillary, or the 47%

who didn't either bother to vote are happy

[yardwork]

36. Missed your post. I just said the same thing.

[still_one]

41. That's cool. It should be pointed out and reinforced

[mountain grammy]

17. oops

[TomCADem]

18. Surprisingly, It Is Hardly His Worse Choice...

...since Perry has some relevant experience, but that is a very low bar.

[okasha]

22. Take it from a Texan.

It is the Worst Choice. Ever.

[not fooled]

27. Oh goddess

Pleese pleese pleeeeese don't name Sid Miller Secty of Ag.

[yardwork]

37. This means a lot more oil pipelines. Protests will be shut down immediately.

With Exxon as Secretary of State, Texas running Energy, and Republicans controlling all branches of government, we can expect to see removal of all environmental protections and a massive surge in drilling and pipeline development. Any protests will be immediately and brutally suppressed.

[progressoid]

19. Oh my dog.

[lapfog_1]

24. I honestly believe that the Trumpeteers

think the DOE has something to do with using oil and natural gas OR renewables.

While the DOE does do something with both Fusion energy as a electric source and funds the NREL (renewable lab)... it has very little to do with energy.

Sigh.

[jmowreader]

25. The Department of Energy runs the US nuclear weapons program

Make of it what you will.

[CentralMass]

28. Dumber then a box of rocks.

[StevieM]

29. There are three reasons I cannot support this nomination. The first is that his ideology

is all wrong. The second is that I don't believe he has the proper managerial skills. The third...

The third reason is...um....

Sorry, I can't remember the third. Oops.

[chwaliszewski]

30. Rick Freaking Perry?

He's the male equivalent of Sarah Palin.

[mdbl]

33. I always thought he was Sarah Palin in drag

they both spew the same nonsense.

[Coyotl]

50. Rick only was asked after Palin said no.

Palin was Trumps first choice, people are saying don't you know.

[rpannier]

31. Was this one of the cabinet positions he was going to shut down

I'd ask him, but I don't think he'd remember

[polmaven]

34. Oooops!

[yardwork]

35. I hope the people who wouldn't vote for Hillary are happy now.

[chwaliszewski]

40. Therein lies the rub...

there is probably a slew of voters that are ecstatic he was appointed. The dumbing down of this country is unbelievable.

[SpankMe]

38. I'd like to put some of the blame on the non-voters.

But, the reason they didn't vote isn't because "both candidates were flawed". Rather, they didn't vote out of pure apathy.

//It was just too much trouble to drive to the polling place, or sit down and read all that ballot stuff and fill out a mail-in ballot, or cancel poker night. Heck, lots of other people are voting. This is a controversial election and "everyone" will be out there. This Trump thing will take care of itself.

[Angry Dragon]

43. and I believe there was a pipe line leak not too far away within the last week

[lunatica]

45. the United States of Oil

[Coyotl]

49. Trump only hires the best people he can get.

And this is the best he can get....

[Guilded Lilly]

51. "Dumb and Dumber." Life imitates juvenile art.