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POTUS 45.39: Dick Pictures for Everyone!!!!!!!

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5mn_Major said:
1) So after 2008, we reached the point you described of the GOP being in shambles. Many assumed as you point out that they would 'rebuild' into something resembling a normal opposition party. What happened? Trump. The party will never be 'a patriotic political organization'.

2) There are many who advocate the Ds fighting fire with fire - sending in the attack dogs. But moderate Ds are turned off by Fox type rhetoric and align with more logical CNN...and the opportunity is to winning over the moderate independents. So rather than going into the gutter and being shrill like Nancy Pelosi, Elizabeth Warren and the Dean scream - we need to answer with strength and confidence that's more in line with early B Clinton, Obama and JFK.
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That won't work. That's why the Bernie Bro's stayed home.
 
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WASHINGTON — As a corporate lawyer, William L. Wehrum worked for the better part of a decade to weaken air pollution rules by fighting the Environmental Protection Agency in court on behalf of chemical manufacturers, refineries, oil drillers and coal-burning power plants.

Now, Mr. Wehrum is about to deliver one of the biggest victories yet for his industry clients — this time from inside the Trump administration as the government’s top air pollution official.

On Tuesday, President Trump is expected to propose a vast rollback of regulations on emissions from coal plants, including many owned by members of a coal-burning trade association that had retained Mr. Wehrum and his firm as recently as last year to push for the changes.

The proposal strikes at the heart of climate-change regulations adopted by the Obama administration to force change among polluting industries, and follows the relaxation of separate rules governing when power plants must upgrade air pollution equipment. Mr. Wehrum, who has led the E.P.A.’s clean air office since November, also helped deliver the changes in several of those rules.

The rollbacks are part of the administration’s effort to bring regulatory relief to the coal industry, and other major sources of air pollution. But to proponents of a tougher stance on industries that contribute to global warming, Mr. Wehrum is regarded as the single biggest threat inside the E.P.A., with Tuesday’s expected announcement to weaken what is known as the Clean Power Plan the most recent evidence of his handiwork.

“They basically found the most aggressive and knowledgeable fox and said, ‘Here are the keys to the henhouse,’” said Bruce Buckheit, an air pollution expert who worked for the Justice Department’s Environmental Enforcement Section and as director of the E.P.A.’s air enforcement office under Democratic and Republican presidents.

Mr. Wehrum has been able to push his deregulatory agenda without running into ethics troubles because of a quirk in federal ethics rules. The rules limit the activities of officials who join the government from industry — but they are less restrictive for lawyers than for officials who had worked as registered lobbyists.

The end result is that the ethics rules generally allow Mr. Wehrum to help oversee the drafting of policies that broadly benefit the industries or clients he represented in recent years.
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**** clean air and clean water. Let the money flow.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/19/...william-wehrum.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
 
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Manafort jury: Day 3.

So does the jury have to decide on each of the separate charges? That's quite the list to parse through.

Subscribing to false income tax returns
Number of counts: 5
Maximum prison sentence per count: 3 years

Failing to file foreign bank account reports
Number of counts: 4
Maximum prison sentence per count: 5 years

Bank fraud and bank fraud conspiracy
Number of counts: 4 counts of bank fraud; 5 counts of bank fraud conspiracy
Maximum prison sentence per count: 30 years
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That's 18 unique charges; that could be a while.
 
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ScoobyDoo said:
I believe in Engineering. I do not believe in companies utilizing the best knowledge and standards without oversight. And there is no oversight anymore.
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I believe in people who have to live there doing the actions. That plant, that project, is being done by a cooperative, not a traditional investor-owned corporation. The cooperative members are the people that live and work around there. That's why I have better hope for that project.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
Coal done right can work.
https://bismarcktribune.com/busines...cle_32c76382-a55e-50f6-ac3a-f330b835b565.html
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“This technology holds the promise of reducing or eliminating emissions at our existing power plants in a cost-effective manner, which means we can continue to have reliable and affordable energy while also advancing better environmental stewardship..."
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"holds the promise..." means it's unproven now. So why are Trump and his lackeys at the Environmental Destruction Agency pushing expanded use of coal at power plants--even though it's much more costly than natural gas--now? Paying back those donors.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
I believe in people who have to live there doing the actions. That plant, that project, is being done by a cooperative, not a traditional investor-owned corporation. The cooperative members are the people that live and work around there. That's why I have better hope for that project.
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Greed will set in. Greed always wins in America. See Flint Water, the Horizon Oil Disaster, etc.
 
The Sicatoka said:
I believe in people who have to live there doing the actions. That plant, that project, is being done by a cooperative, not a traditional investor-owned corporation. The cooperative members are the people that live and work around there. That's why I have better hope for that project.
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God I wish I had a different job where I could respond to this...
 
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The Sicatoka said:
I believe in people who have to live there doing the actions. That plant, that project, is being done by a cooperative, not a traditional investor-owned corporation. The cooperative members are the people that live and work around there. That's why I have better hope for that project.
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Corporate America believes in the shareholders. Who will ***** and moan over trying to save anything other than profits. We've been down this path before, and is the entire reason the EPA exists.

Especially when you have the Coal industry crapping over science because they can't make any money- when the actual reason for them sucking has more to do with cheap gas.

There's no chance that a company would do this on their own when the neighboring company will certainly be looking out for their profit margin.
 
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<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" data-lang="en"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">“Bruce Ohr is at the center of FALSE ALLEGATIONS which led to a multi-million dollar investigation into what apparently didn’t happen.” Darrell Issa, House Oversight. We can take out the word “apparently.” <a href="https://twitter.com/FoxNews?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FoxNews</a></p>— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1031553002371522561?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 20, 2018</a></blockquote>
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Republicans and Fox News still carrying the President's water.

The Congress is supposed to be his oversight.
The 4th estate is supposed to be the people's final check on the President.

Both are failing.
 
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alfablue said:
Corporate America believes in the shareholders. Who will ***** and moan over trying to save anything other than profits. We've been down this path before, and is the entire reason the EPA exists.

Especially when you have the Coal industry crapping over science because they can't make any money- when the actual reason for them sucking has more to do with cheap gas.

There's no chance that a company would do this on their own when the neighboring company will certainly be looking out for their profit margin.
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Correct. Greed wins. There's tons of coal left to be mined and they don't have anything to use it for so they're making **** up.

Greed greed greed greed.
 
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The Sicatoka said:
He could've claimed Executive privilege but didn't, thus "allowed it".
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Given what is going on, the WH Counsel can not claim that for issues relating to misconduct of the president. So that "claim" may be totally baseless.

He's not the president's personal attorney.
 
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Rogie21 said:
"holds the promise..." means it's unproven now. So why are Trump and his lackeys at the Environmental Destruction Agency pushing expanded use of coal at power plants--even though it's much more costly than natural gas--now? Paying back those donors.
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Building a new NG plant is a half-decade evolution.
Retrofitting a coal plant to NG is about the same timeline.

And what folks forget is ... NG is still ... a fossil fuel. After coal is eliminated by those who want it gone, NG will be next for that same reason.

Do people favor it because it has "natural" in its name? In that case, NG is also gluten free! :D
 
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