Now that he’s completed his plan to bring mining and clear-cut logging to National Monuments, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zink has looked around his own department. And according to the AP, what he’s determined is that one third of the Interior Department is composed of traitors,
Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Monday that nearly one-third of employees at his department are not loyal to him and President Donald Trump, adding that he is working to change the department’s regulatory culture to be more business friendly.
The Trump regime is one in which you can head up a department whose name you’ve forgotten and whose purpose you never knew, run something that doesn’t even interest you, or head up a department you actively want to destroy, so long as you show the one critical trait: Loyalty to Trump.
Dedication to the nation is off the table. Efficiency is not an issue. Knowledge is an actual detriment. Loyalty is what counts. People who don’t realize that are getting in the way of making arbitrary decisions and implementing “business friendly” decisions.
Zinke said he wants to speed up permits for oil drilling, logging and other energy development that now can take years.
“The president wants it yesterday,” Zinke said, referring to permits for energy development.
So Zinke has no option but to shed those people and offices who insist on studying an area before it’s destroyed in favor of new people in new places who know to salute first, ask questions never.
Zinke said he is pursuing a major reorganization that would push much of the agency’s decision-making outside Washington and move several agencies, including the Bureau of Reclamation and Bureau of Land Management, to undetermined Western states.
If the idea that Zinke might put the BLM in the hands of someone like Cliven Bundy still seems outrageous, consider this …
In a speech to an oil industry group, Zinke compared Interior to a pirate ship that captures “a prized ship at sea and only the captain and the first mate row over” to finish the mission.
Zinke believes that oil, gas, mining, and logging are the poor victims here. Held hostage by merciless creatures who are on the brink of extinction.
On other topics, Zinke said the Endangered Species Act has been “abused” by bureaucrats and environmental groups and needs to be reformed to be less “arbitrary.”
But at least God is on Zinke’s side.
“Fracking is proof that God’s got a good sense of humor and he loves us,” Zinke said without explanation.
Explanations are not required. Just a stiff-armed salute.