Good day all. With about 6 weeks until the Inauguration of President Donald Trump, The stink of fear is pungent among the alphabet soup of Government Agencies. Now the Energy Department is beginning to tremble at the thought of President Trump and what he will do to them.
The fear level among the bureaucrats at the Energy Department blew through the roof when Trump’s transition team asked for a little bit of information. What information is so bad that the bureaucrats are in abject terror? Here are the details from Politico:
Donald Trump’s transition team wants the Energy Department to provide the names of any employees who have worked on President Barack Obama’s climate initiatives — a request that has current and former staffers fearing an oncoming “witch hunt.”
The president-elect’s team sought the information as part of a 74-point questionnaire that also asked for details about how DOE’s statistical arm, the Energy Information Administration, does the math on issues such as the cost-effectiveness of wind and solar power versus fossil fuels. POLITICO obtained the document Friday, after Trump’s advisers sent it to the department earlier in the week.
I hope all those Energy Dept. Personnel have plenty of brown pants, because I think they’re going to need them.
The questions are just the latest sign that Trump is feeling out ways to undo Obama’s environmental agenda, in which DOE has played a major role through actions such as issuing billions of dollars in loan guarantees to green-energy projects backed by companies such as Google and Tesla. Trump has derided the idea of man-made climate change as a “hoax,” and he’s announced plans to nominate one of the biggest critics of Obama’s regulations — Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt — to lead the Environmental Protection Agency.
Oh, it isn’t just that nonsense regarding climate change. President Trump is well aware of the billions of dollars wasted on all these phony “Green Energy” projects. I have a sneaking suspicion that he wants to say his patented, trademarked tag line.
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Coupled with calls by congressional Republicans to relax civil-service protections so that it’s easier to fire federal employees, the transition team’s demand that the Energy Department name names has some current and former workers fearing the worst.
Some of the remarks by these “Professional Governmental employees” demonstrate just how out of touch they are with what’s happening in America and why Donald Trump was elected.
“Sounds like a freaking witch hunt,” one former DOE staffer wrote in an email.
It is a remarkably aggressive and antagonistic tone to take with an agency that you’re about to try to manage,” a current agency employee said. Another DOE staffer expressed the view that “some [of the questions] are harassment, some are naive, some are legitimate.”
“Why is that important for informing the transition team?” the person said of the list of people who worked on climate issues.
As you would expect, these petty little jerks who have been busy wrecking the lives of actual working Americans ran straight to their bought and paid for Democrat Shills Representatives.
“The transition team should reconsider these apparent attempts to intimidate Energy Department employees who were simply working to fulfill the climate objectives of the Obama administration,” he wrote.
Perhaps you might consider proposing some legislation Representative? Oh wait! Your side lost! Your opinion means absolutely bupkis. In case you failed to notice, the American voters have had enough and they want President Trump to start demolishing the Beltway Establishment, and that means all your pals at the various agencies need to get their resumes redone.
Now, what were some of these questions that had all these bureaucrats looking for a supply of Depends? Here are a few examples.
Besides requesting specific names, Trump’s transition team directed a series of questions at the department’s Energy Information Administration, including some that appeared to challenge the agency’s ability to keep political bias out of its statistical analysis during Obama’s presidency.
“How has EIA ensured its independence in your data and analysis over the past 8 years?” one question asks, while requesting examples of instances where “EIA’s independence was most challenged.”
I see a problem here. This is a trick question. These bureaucrats went whole hog into helping Obama and the Democrats trash the freedom and independence of American citizens and basically destroying whole industries, all in the name of their lord, Barack Obama.
Other questions pressed EIA on why it had made certain assumptions about the costs of renewable energy, as well as whether its forecasts had given short shrift to “the shale gas and oil renaissance.”
To answer the first part, they made those assumptions because it gave them good “Feelz.” As to the second part? The goal was to shut down the all forms of fossil fuels, so they simply ignored the actual facts and made up their own. And now they have to answer for them.
Having been on the receiving end of investigations into science, Penn State University climate scientist Michael Mann — himself a frequent target of attacks from climate skeptics — said he found some of the questions worrying.
“Normally I would … withhold judgment, supposing for the time-being that this could just be legitimate information-gathering. However, this latest revelation hardly exists in a vacuum,” he wrote in an email, referring to the role of prominent climate skeptics on Trump’s EPA transition team.
Hey Mikey! How’s that lawsuit between you and Mark Steyn going? Have you finally provided the information his lawyers demanded from you? Let’s see now…According to Principia Scientific International, that would be a big fat NO!
“Plaintiff continues to evade the one action that might definitively establish its [his science’s] respectability – by objecting, in the courts of Virginia, British Columbia and elsewhere, to the release of his research in this field. See Cuccinelli vs Rectors and Visitors of the University of Virginia…”
Then we have the usual left wing suspects, all claiming that President-Elect Trump’s transition team is questioning the honesty of all these good, wonderful friends of theirs in the Energy Department.
Michael Halpern, a deputy director at the Union of Concerned Scientists, said the questionnaire “reads more like a subpoena than a request for assistance.” To Halpern, a question on the list asking DOE’s national labs about their websites raised an eyebrow.
“During the Bush administration, there were a lot of webpages that either disappeared or were altered to put nonscientific information on them,” he said. Nevertheless, Halpern said, “We elected a president and not a dictator. He can’t just come and destroy entire departments by executive fiat.”
You are correct, which is why Congress will also be getting involved. It will take legislation to rip the guts out of these unelected bureaucracies. I think one big target for the Energy Department, as well as most of the other alphabet soup of agencies is stripping them of any law enforcement authority and dismantling their SWAT teams. Also, anyone who was declared “Nonessential” during the last Obama caused governmental shutdown should be at the head of the lists for layoff.
It’s beginning to sink in to these moonbats that the times, they be ‘a changin’, and a lot of them are going to find themselves looking for work in the “Dreaded Private Sector.”
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