The D.C. bureaucracy is top-heavy with liberal Democrats. It will be interesting to see what Trump does to offset this bias. Looks like he's off to a promising start.

Wish they went away yesterday.

In Bill Gertz's book, "The China Threat," he stated that the DOE was filled during the Clinton administration with "anti-nuclear activists." Having worked as a civilian contractor for DOE facilities for over 25 years, I can certainly support that statement. The problem is that George W Bush never cleaned house. I suppose that the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, which came only 8 months into his presidency, took first priority, but we are still saddled with those types of people. It used to be that DOE supported "Energy R&D," as it did evolve out of the old Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) (which was split into the Energy Research and Development Administration (ERDA) and Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) back in 1975 - ERDA was then made a full cabinet-level organization the next year, the DOE). DOE does some support for nuclear power R&D, but it biggest priority seems to be windmills and solar panels. And, of course, the Stockpile Stewardship Program, which is to continue to certify the safety/reliability of the remaining nuclear weapons stockpile. This program is administered through the country's network of National Labs (e.g., Los Alamos, Lawrence Livermore, Oak Ridge). Nuclear weapon maintenance is not something the military is set up to do. The military is the "end-user," but they are not staffed with nuclear engineers and scientists who are expert in the fields necessary to support these roles. That's where the labs come in.

The problem is that Congress themselves passed some rules which protect the majority of the rank-and-file from termination by the President. It's kind of ridiculous, but the President doesn't have much hire/fire authority over the Executive Branch with the exception of appointees confirmed by the Senate. I think that should change to some degree. You can't be an effective boss if you can't fire people for non-performance.

Draining the swamp also includes getting rid of useless departments of government. Firing government employees is a GOOD thing

I don't trust Trump either, but looting others at gunpoint against their will without scientific evidence is the action to avoid. That is the plan of action of Obama, Hitlery, and the Democratic Party. There is no scientific proof that human action is at fault nor will any looters' plan have any proven positive effect on climate.

You speak of "the science of climate change" as if there were such a thing. There is a theory of global warming based on CO2 with a vast number of variations on what is going to happen based on assumptions and feedback loops. There is no one thing. Even the people who accept the theory project anything from mild warming to several degrees. And mild warming is a net positive.


But we keep getting this religious test of "do you believe in climate change".

People don't accept the science of man made climate change because it is fraudulent science.
Data is manipulated or left out if it doesn't fit the goal of proving the charade, temp monitoring stations moved to heat islands in the cities, ice pack growing around the planet , not shrinking. But certainly not reported.
3 feet of snow in Hawaii early Dec. In mid March 2016 estimated 3million monarch butterflies freeze to death in southern Mexico .Same time it snows in the Carribean ,some islands have never had recorded snow. The sun regulates our climate and we are now in a solar minimum. The kind of bull crap the news does pick up is Obama traveling to Kaliphonyia during a severe drought as he explains that it is proof of man made global warming , even though scientists know these severe droughts have lasted for over 300 years in the past before the auto or power plants or the methane congress belches out trying to take control from the people.