Rep Adam Schiff is on it:

What got Nixon into trouble wasn’t firing anyone. It was that his reputation was dragging down republicans who were coming up for re-election. Getting rid of him was their only viable strategic move.

If he does that, and faces no consequences...

This isn’t coal for power generation. It supplies the steel industry with coke to make steel.

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That is different. I was under the impression that it was for power generation. I’m for keeping the steel industry moving along.

This, and the story but how his middle east trip was ‘too exhausting’, so now he doesn’t want to go abroad for as long, are a couple of my favourite things in the worst possible way.

Trump conveniently neglected to mention this mine is for metallurgic coal for making steel, not for electricity.

They were talking about this. Your statement is correct. As one panels said “He doesn’t want to fire all these people because that will leave it in the hands of career DOJ employees and he wouldn’t want that” assuming it got that far.

That’s the part that really pisses me off—that Zinke et al are planning to completely ignore the express wishes of the Intertribal Coalition. As if they haven’t been fucked with enough.

I pointed out in another thread, it has nothing to do with any sensible energy policy. Even if all environmental regulations were removed, natural gas, thanks to fracking, which Republicans all support, will continue to supplant coal.

Also worth pointing out, Trump’s new coal mine is supplying coking coal to the steel industry - not for generating power. Coal still dominates steel-making, although natural gas fired direct-reduction iron is making serious inroads there as well because it is cheaper and cleaner than using coke.

Meanwhile in the ongoing clusterfuck cascade that is the UK...

You really should also mention this bizarre cabinet meeting, where Trump’s cabinet took turns praising him like a naked emperor, and he claimed to be the most productive president ever:

And now Trump is considering firing the Special Counsel, which he actually can do, albeit awkwardly. House Intel Ranking Member Adam Schiff fired back, with far more confidence in his spineless GOP colleagues than seems warranted by any of their past shrugging.

All of it is terrible, but Zinke assessed the area by going in with his cronies and may actually have traveled with all those means, but he completely ignored the locals and Native American’s recommendations for the area. Fuck him.

ABC News’ Kate Shaw explains, however, how the 9th Circuit decision complicates the case against the ban.

“Congressman-elect Greg Gianforte was sentenced to 40 hours of community service, 20 hours of anger management and a $385 fine after pleading guilty to assaulting a journalist.”

“D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine and Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh are suing the president, alleging “unprecedented constitutional violations.” The suit is taking aim at Trump’s business entanglements—here’s an extremely overwhelming list of his conflicts of interest—from which he has refused to…

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