Jester,

We both know up close what Perry is like - an intellectual light weight whose policy as governor was to give the go-go-go to any and all oil production. As you say so correctly, this is surreal. Quite like when Enron was writing energy policy for....I forget which president - before scandal and fraud against shareholders drove them out of business. But there is some organization - wish I could remember the name - that almost all Republicans support and very few Democrats - some kind of 'partnership' - which boils down to Republicans meeting with industry leaders who tell them what laws they want to pass, and the Republicans do it, under the aegis of promoting businesses and jobs. And of course these Republicans get campaign $$ in return. Might've seen it on a PBS 'Frontline' documentary or something like that. Surreal that Trump is doing that with no 'camoflage'. Surreal that he's appointing people who during the campaign called him a dangerous jackass. So now he's.....a felicitious jackass? In an earlier, simpler era of American history, the popular slogan was, "What's good for GM, is good for America." So there we are.