Renewable Revolution

January 11, 2017

WASHINGTON - Today, Congressman Ted W. Lieu (D | Los Angeles County) issued the following statement on the confirmation hearing of Rex Tillerson, former CEO of ExxonMobil, to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of State:

“#RexTillersonKnew.”

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2017/1/13/1620274/-Congressman-Ted-Lieu-issues-one-word-statement-on-Rex-Tillerson-s-confirmation-hearing

GREAT Comments! 


PRESSmUP
Jan 13 · 07:05:54 PM
 
Sorry….there are just too many different things flying about to pin down to just one item…knew what?

Milkmaid  PRESSmUP
Jan 13 · 09:24:45 PM 
 
I'm thinking 1) knew about climate change, 2) knew Russia hacked us, 3) knew Trump was in Putin's pocket.

Xonic  Milkmaid
Jan 14 · 02:33:47 AM
 
...and 4) Is in Putins pocket himself.

TRPChicago  PRESSmUP
Jan 13 · 11:03:03 PM 
 
At his hearings, Tillerson said he didn’t know a number of things on a number of topics he should have been aware of or at least briefed on. Especially Exxon activities and policies when he was its CEO.

He didn’t know about too many things. 


squarewheel  TRPChicago
Jan 14 · 01:25:09 AM 
 
well he was only CEO, so you know, he doesn’t know every little detail that goes on at Exxon.

But everything good that happened was his fault and he did know about it and he should get a big fat bonus for it.
 
RatWhisperer  squarewheel
Jan 14 · 01:56:38 AM 
 
That’s called the Trump rule, isn’t it?? 

rktect  squarewheel
Jan 14 · 05:23:41 AM
 
We could think of confirmation hearings as a second or third round final job interview, or the sort of a PHD defense that qualifies a person to be considered worthy of a doctorate in academia.

We might ask Tillerson as the crux of his final exam in engineering.

“You have stated for the record that you are an engineer. When you are hiring people we expect you apply your engineering experience and are looking to test whether the candidates can defend a proposed solution in a way that passes or fails your analysis.

You might on the one hand observe that there are many positive aspects to a proposed engineering solution, but if in the end you run the numbers and it fails to carry the required load don’t you have to reject it, and the candidate that failed to properly defend it?

Wouldn’t you agree, that here when we ask you questions, and you respond you don’t know, you are failing to carry the load we expect of a successful solution?”

Slashpot  rktect
Jan 14 · 02:24:15 PM 
 
I hadn’t realized how these confirmation hearings work. I am stupefied! They ask a bunch of questions which basically amount to “Are you an evil person?”, Will you use your position to enrich yourself?”, and so on. How devilishly clever! This process will absolutely catch out any honest man, no doubt about it! What could possibly go wrong?

I must admit I did find it a tad humorous that to get a pass from these brilliant & perspicacious  seekers of truth  , one has to disavow any agreement with Trump’s stated policies.