A Tennessee state inspector had cited a coal company repeatedly for environmental violations. Fred Thompson, the inspector says, got him removed from the case.
Thompson "hooked up with a company that was crooked, but I guess he didn't know it at the time," said former inspector Francis Baker, who retired from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation in 2006 after 28 years. "They were playing politics as much as they could — they'd go to the governor rather than to anyone else."
In response, Thompson said he didn't recall the details of the case, or his lobbying for abortion, the Terry Schiavo controversy, why drilling in the Everglades would not be popular in Florida, whether his home state had the death penalty, the breakup of the Soviet Union, what color tie he was currently wearing, or what he had for brunch this morning.
"Hat?? What hat??"
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I still say he looks like the walking dead. I hope he gets the nomination.
He's got that 'early Alzheimers Reagan' appeal/excuse -- after all, it's untoward to criticize someone who's 'sick'. And I agree that someone being 'mentally ill' is normally not their fault nor a cause for humor -- but conversely you don't fucking elect them to the highest office in the land!!
To big em: Why not, we've already done it twice this past decade.
^^ he was selected, not elected - our fault for not insisting on paper ballots
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