As America’s craziest election season goes on, its feels more and more like we are all living in a bad B movie.
I swear, you couldn’t make this up.
The latest bit of insanity from the Trump camp is the breaking news that President elect Donald Trump will nominate former Texas Governor Rick Perry (R) to lead the Department of Energy.
OK.
Sure.
After nominating a Secretary of Education who has never stepped inside of a public school, and an EPA Director who doesn’t believe in global warming, now we hear this.
You remember the Republican Presidential debates of 2012, right? In one of those displays of ineptitude, we saw then candidate Rick Perry fumbling around for words. He was trying to list three agencies that he would eliminate if he were elected. He said this:
“I will tell you, it is three agencies of government when I get there that are gone. Commerce, Education, and the — What’s the third one there? Let’s see.”
After desperately trying to come up with the third agency, he finally confessed that he couldn’t do it. He said:
“Commerce and, let’s see. I can’t. The third one, I can’t. Sorry. Oops.”
He literally said, “Oops.” Eventually he managed to dig around in his tiny brain and come up with the right answer, the Energy Department.
The point was, of course, that Rick Perry doesn’t believe in the importance of the Energy Department. He wants to eliminate it.
Which in the upside down world of Donald Trump means that he is just the right person to run that department.
Truly, what are we supposed to make of these nominations?
If I had been elected President, but I didn’t really want to do the job, and sort of just wanted to go back to my old life of making money and telling lies, I might nominate the worst possible people, too.
I wonder if there’s an opening for head of the RNC, because I’m definitely qualified.
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