1 Markowsky and Miller?  Hmmmm.

2 A remarkably incompetent Secretary of Energy. Should have stayed in his ivory tower where he belonged.

3

There's something going on here, and its probably not going to be something the public will like ever hear about.

To cynical?

4
How does Lisa Jackson at the EPA still have her job?

And Geithner?

5 Rats, sinking ship, some dis-assembly required...

6
What I want, what I'm waiting for, is for some of these shitbirds and malcontents to start squealing on the Obama admin.

7
Meh..... pikers. 

Allow me show you how purge is really done.

8

Is that Nobel Prize winning Secretary Chu?

sort of OT, did everyone see the Eco-Nazi ad no excuses?

9 The possible good angle: academics burn out and crawl back to the tower

the bad angle is that Chi Je$u$ wants people even more radical.....

I am wondering who will sing what when we get the power to subpoena where "the green shoots gone"....?

10 Heads rolling, or rats fleeing?

11 They're all running for Mayor of Chicago.

12 These guys are probably politicos and not technical guys. The nuke guy would have been someone I had at least heard of if he was a technical wank.

This is a two year housecleaning of people who have disagreed with Chu's insane energy crap. Either that or they have had a bellyful and are leaving on their own.

13 I'm sorry, I mean "No Pressure" ad.

14 1. Outlaw nuclear, coal, and oil-fired plants 2. ??? 3. Energy independence!

15 This is a two year housecleaning of people who have disagreed with Chu's insane energy crap. Either that or they have had a bellyful and are leaving on their own.

Posted by: Vic at October 04, 2010 03:32 PM (/jbAw)

The latter.

16 These guys are probably politicos and not technical guys. The nuke guy would have been someone I had at least heard of if he was a technical wank.

This is a two year housecleaning of people who have disagreed with Chu's insane energy crap. Either that or they have had a bellyful and are leaving on their own.

Posted by: Vic

 

It depends upon what these people do. They may have already figured out that anything they do won't get through Congress next year, and the time to bail for the private sector is now. Also, if obama does want to pretend that he's a moderate, making them the scapegoats would be perfect (for him).

17
Isn't Markowsky running a write-in campaign for the Alaska Senate seat?

18 Chu is cutting these folks lose so that they can set up franchised businesses for painting the roofs of buildings white.

19 14 Dr. Chu,

thank you for encapsulating the "progressive" cognitive stance on ANY issue so well....

to wit:

1) grab total oversight of healthcare leveraging risk pools

2) ????

3) Free cookies for everyone!

20 I guess they weren't "renewable".

21 Maybe it has something to do with approving substandard well designs, like BPs?

Or could it be because of the environmental wavers routinely given out?

Or it could be something like, why did you fill the BP drill rig Deepwater Horizon with water? Didn't you know the damn thing was a boat.

Or how about not buying the fire booms?

Lots to choose from when inept bureaucracy is involved. It comes for free with big government clods.

22 So I guess the Nuclear and Fossil Energy budgets will now be rolled into the Solar and Wind-power departments?

23

Who wants to stick around this crew in either Energy, DOJ or the Treasury, considering the state of the economy, the likelihood of Issa issuing supeonas come January, and Obama running for re-election, using their corpses for traction?

24 Soothsayer - Jackson's just holding on until the election.   I can't imagine her hanging around to try to defend the CO2 endangerment finding before a GOP-led Congress. 

That was one of the many questionable maneuvers taken based on a political calculation that the Dems would hold power for a decade, and now it's (hopefully) going to come back to bite them very, very hard.

It might in fact prove very difficult for Obama to find anyone (any warmist, that is) willing to fill the EPA seat. 

25 I don't know what much of anything means now a days. But I sure as hell know I do NOT trust anything this Administration is doing or is likely to do.

26 It might in fact prove very difficult for Obama to find anyone (any warmist, that is) willing to fill the EPA seat. 

Posted by: JEM

 

This may prove to be a problem. If the eco-freaks are scared off, and Obama manages to find someone that isn't certifiably insane, that confirmation will be used to anchor Obama's re-invention.

27 Oh, I'm sure Obama is just going to start a push to ban all nuclear and fossil energy or something.  Nothing to worry about, we're all happy in our respective caves.

28 After the 1994 bloodbath, Clinton tacked to the right and saved his presidency. Not Obama! Double down, Baby, double down! He'll have the EPA ban fossil fuel production! He'll mandate hybrid cars! He'll demand that everybody's thermostat be turned down to 50 in winter! Oh, the Republican Congress? That's what being Commander-In-Chief is for! Obama will start arming his supporters right after the election, just like his hero Chavez!

29 What's so puzzling?  Since the US is going to get entirely out of nuclear energy and fossil fuel production and consumption under our Dear Leader, why pay for those superfluous positions at the DoE?  It's a step toward streamlining the Federal government.  (As well as toward streamlining all of us citizens back into the Stone Age.)

30 You can be sure it does not portend any new nuke plants, oil refineries, drilling permits, or anything else that actually makes energy in useful and much needed quantities.

31 Energy Secretary Steven Chu, in an email to DOE staff Friday, announced the early November departures of Jim Markowsky, the assistant secretary for fossil energy, and Pete Miller, the assistant secretary for nuclear energy.

Well, gee.  Maybe the problem with those two is that they thought they were supposed to, you know, help produce nuclear and fossil energy as opposed to help eliminate them.  The President needs team players who'll fully support and implement his agenda, right?

32 Saw on racist, evil, destructive fox news that the NRC (Nuke Reg. Comm'n.) is beefing up security screening of employees. Dunno much about the specifics (believe it to be employees at nuclear facilities), could it be that there was a specific high level terrorist threat that got through the screening? Could be related? Recalling back from when I was in the industry, I think the NRC is part of the DOE, but I am much older now and could be mistaken.

33 Create mass confusion. Just in time to usurp all congressional appropriations to redirect where Marxists desire. Tax funds? What tax funds?

34 I hate to admit it, but even Rasmussen seems to be showing Democrats surging into to close here.  The Generic Lead is down to 3 points.

I'm sorry, but living in the world of reality, this makes no sense at all to me.  For instance, the preference gap for repeal of ObamaCare has fallen over 15 points in one week.

Huh?  The Democrats have done nothing but shit on themselves over the past week and they are surging?  I don't get it. Perhaps it was all the f*cking moron right-wing bloggers thinking they were doing us a favor by reaming the Pledge to America giving Dems talking points they could have only dreamed of before.

EVERYTHING the Dems have done has sucked.  How they hell can they be surging?

35 The answer which requires the fewest assumptions is: stupidity.

36 Jobs saved.  We just happened to be saving them for someone else.

37 I popped off an email to someone at DoE  who should know to see if they know what's going on.

38 Chu scapegoating underlings for spendulus non-performance to save his own hide? Preparing for the installation of even more insane policy makers? There's something going on here, and its probably not going to be something the public will like.

Definitely sounds like the DOE is doing some recycling and probably will replace the lost politicos or technicians with moonbattier counterparts.  Could either mean that the Obama Administration is entrenching itself agency-wise for after the anticipated electoral slaughter come November or that the saner people have had enough of Chu's energy nonsense.

Either way, nature abhors a vacuum and what will potentially fill vacuum is even more nuttier people.

/In the end, there will be only chaos.

39 It helps when your ads make you sound like a Republican, and never mention your actual party affiliation.

40 @34: Simple, until after Labor Day, the left was completely disengaged.  Most people aren't engaged in politics all year, even in election years.  They don't pay attention until after Labor Day (don't ask me why; I don't know).

The "enthusiasm" gap was SO huge pre-Labor Day that the only thing most races could do is tighten up.  I wouldn't worry too much about it, but if you are, see what you can do with your local GOP to help with GOTV.

41 @39 - Also when your very popular, but incumbent and beaten-up opponent won't debate you, but you show up to debates.

42

Commentary delivered with new rasmussen generic ballot poll:

Still, while the margin has varied somewhat from week-to-week, Republicans have been consistently ahead in the Generic Ballot for over a year, and it has run as high as 12 points. When Barack Obama first took office as president of the United States, the Democrats enjoyed a seven-point lead on the Generic Ballot. 

Among voters not affiliated with either major party, Republicans hold an 18-point lead

43 Haven't read the comments yet but..... Typical, blame the chus

44 We do remember that (and i paraphrase.. loosely); some will have to leave the high paying jobs so that others can take their place and help balance things out in a "social justice" sort of way.... right?
These positions, by definition, are policy making ones. Follow the bouncing redistribution ball...

45 Remember - Republicans are usually 6+ points down on those generic voter polls, in years we do well. Don't know when the last time we went into October ahead.

46 Saw on racist, evil, destructive fox news that the NRC (Nuke Reg. Comm'n.) is beefing up security screening of employees.

I can't talk much about it, but they started a massive beef up of screening for plant employees years ago. Perhaps they are screening their own employees now.

47 wellll since the Crown family funded Obama, and they own Exelon and GenDynamics, I think Obama will ram thru carbon caps wiht nuke power in xchange to help said Crowns, look how he is ramping up arms sales to India and Suds for GenDy.

48 Chu scapegoating underlings for spendulus non-performance to save his own hide? Preparing for the installation of even more insane policy makers?

If these guys were holdovers from previous admins this could be just a purity purge.


And that would be scary stuff considering what Obama believes about energy.

49

Would you believe...they are firing people to make room for the Congress critters who will be losing their jobs in Nov.?

No, wait, they haven't fired nearly enough people for that.

50 I guess they are looking to recess appoint some hacks to take the brunt of Inhofe's ire.

51 Perhaps they are screening their own employees now. Vic, Surely you jest.

52

Even the biggest liberal idiot in one of these positions, given enough time and data, HAS to see what they are doing to the country, and our ability to compete economicly.

A couple of years from now, we will see reports of internal documents, forcasting a further economic meltdown due to higher energy prices which are a direct result of this admins policies... and they really don't want to be anywhere near those agencies when it does meltdown.

53 @52 "Even the biggest liberal idiot in one of these positions, given enough time and data, HAS to see what they are doing to the country, and our ability to compete economically."
-----
Um, no.

Years ago, in response to me pointing out that an argument was logically flawed, I had a liberal tell me that "there is no such thing as logic." I learned a valuable lesson that day.  I'll grant you that he was not "in one of these positions," but still.

54 Even the biggest liberal idiot in one of these positions, given enough time and data, HAS to see what they are doing to the country, and our ability to compete economicly.

Oh come on.  You're talking about people who believe in the fairy tales of redistribution as a valid model for economic growth. 

55 They're just getting rid of everybody who doesn't have a Nobel Prize...

56 I would say "preparing for the installation of even more insane policy makers" so as to cement in their wacko philosophy even after the 11/2 electoral bloodbath.

57

Educated guess from past employment with the NRC. Directors would be SES (Senior Executive Service) and most likely have some level of technical competence in what they are managing.

At this level they are expected to move around so without more scuttlebut its hard to say whether they are being pushed out or its musical chairs.

It is possible they are being pushed out as it takes awhile for the political appointees to make changes at the Director level.

58

@Flounder 32

The NRC and DOE are the successors of the AEC. They were broken into sepaerate agency and department by the Atomic Reorganization Act of 1953.

Some ties are still maintained of course.

59 37 I popped off an email to someone at DoE who should know to see if they know what's going on.

Posted by: dagny at October 04, 2010 03:49 PM (jS7i0)

You're dicing with one of the largest collections of short attention spans on teh intarwebs.

Honestly, everybody's going to be saying "wait, wasn't dagny going to post something?" all night long.

By tomorrow, we'll all be going nuts trying to search the site for someone who was going to post something from an insider, on some subject, and no one will remember who or what.

You're going to kill us all!

60 The only surprise is that it took this long. Chu has a long history of environmental activism including chaining himself to a tree in Berkeley in a protest over something.

Long ago in a universe far, far away I did a little research on the Obama energy team since I felt they would Al Gore's favorite income source as a club to push through all sorts of economic and societal changes. Here is a link for those that might want to read up on this group.

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