Obama nominates fracking proponent to run Energy Department, leftist envirotards freak out

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The president will ... nominate MIT scientist Ernest Moniz to head the Energy Department.

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Moniz, 69, oversees MIT's Energy Initiative, a research group that focuses on innovative ways to produce power while curbing greenhouse gas emissions.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/04/ernest-moniz-gina-mccarthy_n_2805057.html

More depressing news. It looks like the rumor that the president was going to nominate Ernest Moniz to head the Department of Energy is well-founded.

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This is an ugly development. Ernest Moniz has been leading an oil and gas industry initiative at MIT to sell hydraulic fracturing as safe and shale gas as the perfect bridge fuel.

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Moniz also lead the publication of a report in 2011 that has become the playbook of the shale gas industry, "The Future of Natural Gas."

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The spin of the nomination is that we should ignore his record leading an industry sponsored public relations campaign for the shale gas industry. The Energy Department, we are told, has "no jurisdiction over fracking policy." It is far more concerned about nuclear waste, energy development laboratories, and energy efficiency.

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I am sorry if I find the appointment of an oil and gas industry apologist to a cabinet level position to be a less than positive development. It signals that the administration's plan to address climate change centers around shale gas and nuclear power.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/03/04/1191446/-Obama-wants-to-frack-the-Energy-Department

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But then the right will still call him the most liberal ever.

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But then the right will still call him the most liberal ever.

Stalin would have approved of this guy!

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Stalin would have approved of this guy!

Right on Que

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Right on Que

Here's another leftard rant, this time against Obama's "balanced approach". Rightards hate it because it it includes new tax revenue. Leftards hate it because it includes entitlement reform. Not even the slightest amount of new revenue is acceptable to the rightards and not even the slightest decrease in benefits for anyone is acceptable to the leftards.

Nothing will ever get done unless the President and enough members of the House and Senate decide to ignore the tards.

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Here's another leftard rant, this time against Obama's "balanced approach". Rightards hate it because it it includes new tax revenue. Leftards hate it because it includes entitlement reform. Not even the slightest amount of new revenue is acceptable to the rightards and not even the slightest decrease in benefits for anyone is acceptable to the leftards.

Nothing will ever get done unless the President and enough members of the House and Senate decide to ignore the tards.

But both parties have been working to purge themselves of anything except tards. Wishful thinking has replaced reality and facts in Washington.