{"id":24631,"date":"2017-10-05T12:26:30","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T17:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/gregladen\/?p=24631"},"modified":"2017-10-05T12:26:30","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T17:26:30","slug":"watch-jeff-merkley-wipe-floor-with-trumps-william-wehrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/watch-jeff-merkley-wipe-floor-with-trumps-william-wehrum\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Jeff Merkley Wipe Floor With Trump&#8217;s William Wehrum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>William Wehrum is a lawyer and once, apparently, worked for the EPA. Trump is trying to appoint him to be assistant administrator for air and radiation. This is a reasonably important job that concerns many aspects of the environment.<\/p>\n<p>Watch:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You&#39;ve got to be kidding me with this nominee. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/85w8Ru2618\">pic.twitter.com\/85w8Ru2618<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SenJeffMerkley\/status\/915704243335700481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The Republicans have already said they love this guy. Of course they do.<\/p>\n<p>There is a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1571313532\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=1571313532&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=grlasbl0a-20&#038;linkId=1151bd2def2de5bff2e12e8c5b3427df\">The War on Science<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=grlasbl0a-20&#038;l=am2&#038;o=1&#038;a=1571313532\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> going on, and in Washington, the Republicans are winning it. They are winning it in over 30 states.  When they have finished winning it, that is the end of civilization at least in this country.<\/p>\n<p>Help!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>William Wehrum is a lawyer and once, apparently, worked for the EPA. Trump is trying to appoint him to be assistant administrator for air and radiation. This is a reasonably important job that concerns many aspects of the environment. Watch: You&#39;ve got to be kidding me with this nominee. pic.twitter.com\/85w8Ru2618 &mdash; Senator Jeff Merkley (@SenJeffMerkley) &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/05\/watch-jeff-merkley-wipe-floor-with-trumps-william-wehrum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Watch Jeff Merkley Wipe Floor With Trump&#8217;s William Wehrum<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[148,1457],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5fhV1-6ph","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}