Yes! This is exactly the kind of backbone we want to see from congressional Democrats! Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, a longtime leader on the environment and a member of the Senate’s Environment and Public Works Committee, is saying “hell no" to Donald Trump’s pick of Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head up the Environmental Protection Agency:
“I will vigorously oppose Scott Pruitt’s nomination and urge President-elect Trump to stop nominating science-denying, oil-soaked, climate change-causing polluter allies to his cabinet. The American people want clean air and water and to protect the health of their kids. Those are the time-honored American values that President–elect Trump’s cabinet should reflect.”
More like this, please. Make no mistake: We’re going to lose a lot of battles over the next four years. But we have to show we can fight, because if we don’t fight, we’ll never win.