Energy Secretary Steven Chu, who won a Nobel Prize in physics but came under questioning for his handling of a solar energy loan, is stepping down.
Chu offered his resignation to President Barack Obama in a letter Friday. He said he will stay on at least until the end of February and may stay until a successor is confirmed.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
The US Senate held back their fire against the Obama nomination of Senator Kerry for Secretary of State, so that they can really go to battle against whomever he nominates as Secretary of Energy, or Secretary of Agriculture, or the EPA chief.
Orthodoxy SUCKS.
"Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add 'within the limits of the law' because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual." Thomas Jefferson
Quote: Palinista wrote in post #2The US Senate held back their fire against the Obama nomination of Senator Kerry for Secretary of State, so that they can really go to battle against whomever he nominates as Secretary of Energy, or Secretary of Agriculture, or the EPA chief.
That may well be, but at this point "What does it matter?!?!"
Seriously, I am convinced that it does not matter a whiff who gets nominated (& confirmed) into any of these positions. Rush has been calling them "placeholders" (which I think is an odd use of the word). I have been calling them "puppets." None of them will be developing any policy nor pursuing extra constitutional regulation/enforcement on their own. All of them will merely be following the orders and directives of the regime. For all intents and purposes the Senate could just confirm nice looking mannequins into these posts and a digital voice player could supply their pronouncements and announcements. It would be much cheaper for the taxpayer and the regime wouldn't have to worry about anyone even thinking of wandering off the reservation.