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So when the confirmation hearings begin, turn on C-SPAN, grab some popcorn, and prepare yourself for some of the best political entertainment in years

Scott Pruitt: the enviros’ new Antichrist

By Guest Column Alicia Powe——--December 12, 2016

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--BombThrowers Sure, President-elect Donald Trump has been meeting with Al Gore and other enviro-nuts like Leonardo DiCaprio but make no mistake — a reckoning is coming. Trump knows that the out-of-control Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been getting away with too much for too long. The EPA keeps grabbing more and more power for itself, claiming jurisdiction over increasing swaths of the American landscape and economy to ward off the supposedly imminent perils of “climate change.”
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Radical greens “should be worried,” commentator Charles Krauthammer told Chris Wallace, “because the overreach they’ve enjoyed for eight years is about to be stopped in its tracks.” “All the coverage has been on the fact that he believes x, y, or z about climate change, as if we have a religious test for office in the country, because as we just heard, climate change is a kind of religion. But the fact is, we don’t care if the guy believes that the moon is made of green cheese. His job is to administer, that means to carry out the law as passed by Congress,” Krauthammer said on Thursday. “The EPA has been stymied time and time again in the courts, led by Pruitt and other attorney generals, when they try to overstep. They interpret the law in a way that gives them absolute dominion over almost everything. If it rains on your farm and creates a pond, the feds – the EPA claims the right to regulate you. And that’s going to stop.” The reason environmentalists are getting panicky is the fact that President-elect Donald Trump announced he intends to nominate Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt (R) to lead the EPA.
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Pruitt’s nomination is a kick in the groin to liberal moonbats

Pruitt’s nomination is a kick in the groin to liberal moonbats who scream that climate change “denial” – as they put it – is worse than denying the Holocaust. Pruitt is the Antichrist as far as progressives are concerned and the mention of his name makes Democrats foam at the mouth. House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) shrieks that Pruitt’s nomination must be blocked “for the sake of the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the planet we will leave our children.” She tweeted: Incoming Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) whined: Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) moaned:
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) squeaked: Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hi.) shook his fist: And geriatric commie Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) piled on for good measure: This is just the beginning for these people. Just wait till the actual nomination hearings for Pruitt begin. Oh boy. Pruitt is so right for the job because he rejects the fake so-called science behind global warming. He has filed several lawsuits against stifling EPA regulations that go beyond the agency’s lawful authority. He has led challenges to EPA rules related to ozone and carbon dioxide. In his current post, Pruitt has challenged President Obama’s “Clean Power Plan” (CPP), a federal attempt to seize control of virtually all bodies of water in the United States. Pruitt argued that the plan infringes on state sovereignty over power-generation—a view shared by 27 other states fighting the measure in the courts. “As a fellow fierce critic of the EPA, I know he’s going to roll back the regulations that have been an overreach,” Rep. Chris Collins (R-New York) said on CNN’s “New Day” Thursday. “I look at Attorney General Pruitt as someone who understands the balance. The EPA is out of balance. They’ve gone to the extreme.” Outside of environment policy, Pruitt was the first to challenge the Obama administration’s efforts to provide Obamacare subsidies to states that didn’t establish exchanges. He was at the forefront of getting Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty halted by the judiciary. He sued the Obama administration for mandating that transgender public school students be allowed to use the restroom facilities of the sex they identify with. So when the confirmation hearings begin, turn on C-SPAN, grab some popcorn, and prepare yourself for some of the best political entertainment in years.

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