There's stupid, and there's STUPID

While horrible tragedies and natural disasters occupy the collective national mind, the Trumpsters are behind the scenes in Washington, wreaking havoc with common sensity.

Especially climate and environment common sensity.

(Yeah, I know there's no such word as sensity.  It just seemed to fit, like strategery.)

Case in point;  the fate of the Bureau of Land Management rule on methane capture from drilling operations, which Congress in their infinite dum-dum actually decide not to try and repeal.

So led by Cowboy Ryan "Lone Plane" Zinke, Interior is just going to go ahead and rewrite the rule they don't like.

Which is STUPID.  Like in not-getting-money-you're-entitled-to stupid.

"Environmentalists who support the BLM rule, which addresses new and existing gas wells on public and tribal lands, say fiscal conservatives should take issue with scrapping the rule as well. That’s because states, tribes and the federal government get royalty payments from oil and gas firms drilling on publicly owned lands. The more methane that is captured, the more money flows into government coffers.

“That just underscores how far outside the mainstream this administration is,” said Matt Watson, associate vice president of the climate and energy program at the Environmental Defense Fund."

A synonym for "far outside the mainstream" is stupid.

So that last quote could be rewritten to read like this: "That just underscores how stupid this administration is."  See?  Simple!


Congress decided against repealing this climate rule. So the Trump administration is undoing it.