{"id":20112,"date":"2017-03-03T00:53:52","date_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:53:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20112"},"modified":"2017-03-03T00:53:52","modified_gmt":"2017-03-03T00:53:52","slug":"oops-perry-now-leads-energy-department","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20112","title":{"rendered":"Oops! Perry now leads Energy Department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07-rick-perry.w529.h352.2x.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20113\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07-rick-perry.w529.h352.2x-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07-rick-perry.w529.h352.2x-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07-rick-perry.w529.h352.2x-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07-rick-perry.w529.h352.2x-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/07-rick-perry.w529.h352.2x.jpg 1058w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rick &#8220;Oops&#8221; Perry is the new secretary of energy.<\/p>\n<p>The former Texas governor is now in charge of formulating U.S. energy policy and is in charge of managing the nation&#8217;s still-massive nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>He also is another one of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s Cabinet appointments who &#8212; if you ponder it &#8212; is <em>patently unqualified<\/em> for this job.<\/p>\n<p>He once wanted to get rid of the Energy Department. Do you remember that? He stood on that 2012 Republican Party presidential primary debate stage and said he intended to get rid of three federal agencies if he was elected president.<\/p>\n<p>Except he couldn&#8217;t remember the Energy Department, prompting the infamous &#8220;oops&#8221; response from the governor.<\/p>\n<p>I think I have figured out why the president picked him for this post: His brain freeze amnesia excuses him and gives him license to run the agency he wanted to abolish.<\/p>\n<p>Let us not forget also that the new secretary of energy once said of the president that he is a &#8220;cancer on conservatism&#8221; that needed to be excised.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. 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