The labored – call it agonizing – sentence structure employed in the aforesaid comment was submitted merely for the enjoyment – and, perhaps, though not entirely, for the confusion – of the commentariat herein and can be found, at the present moment in time, such as it were, here alone, unless and, though one hopes…

Energy = Oil!

“Melania, did we hire anybody to help when we re-decorated Mar-a-Lago?”

Perhaps most indicative of the DOE’s nuclear bend is its first secretary, Admiral Hyman Rickover, who is considered the father of the nuclear navy. The DOE largely existed is the Cold War funding shell game (as this post alludes to) as a way to devote resources to nuclear testing without attaching the funding to the…

The point isn’t necessarily that Rick Perry is unqualified—he is unqualified (for this and pretty much any other line of work more demanding than filling soft drink cups at a multiplex snack counter), but the appointment of unqualified party hacks to cabinet positions is just about the oldest tradition in American…

More stars on this one.

While it’s fair to say that DOE mostly does nuclear work, I think it’s also fair to say that the only political waves DOE has made recently have come out of its clean energy programs (recall: Solyndra). I may be reading this incorrectly, but I think it’s a bit silly to paint this as a dumb move, when the only thing…

Simple. What the DoE does is inconsequential to most on the right. It was founded during the Carter administration, so it is bad.

So instead of developing nuclear weapons that don’t exist yet, Rick Perry is going to be responsible for the maintaining an storing them?

I’ve found a secret reaction photo of a meeting where Rick Perry gave a presentation to the sitting President about what he though the DOE did:

It’s like some kind of punishment from Zeus. “For thou’s forgetting of the name of the department thou wished to banish, thou shall henceforth be punished to fly into the Sun on a daily basis. I mean, be head of the Department of Energy.”

The Department of Energy (DOE) is a Cabinet-level department in the United States government, created in 1977. It is a descendant of—and consolidates the functions of—several predecessor agencies, among them the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA), which was itself a descendant of the Atomic…

“but it isn’t like you actually need the background to run pretty much any government agency.”

The sad part is this isn’t even an outlier. It’s a trend.

A quick google shows Bush II was the first person to put people with any scientific background as Secretary of Energy (Bodman) and Obama(Chu, Moniz) continued and strengthened the scientific background in that role. I realize the implication is that we should have someone who knows about Nuclear Weapons or Energy…

Eh, George W. Bush did that, too. The key difference is, I think he at least had a vague idea of what the cabinet departments are and what they do. Whereas I’d be willing to bet Trump looked at a list of department names, went, “Energy, huh. Texas does a lot of the oil. Let’s get Rick Perry, he’s from Texas.”

From what I’ve been led to believe:

Is it possible to impeach a President-elect?

Trump just put forth a person to lead this department who has openly advocated for the shuttering of said department.