The Czar Who Fell To Earth

Hmmm.... So good ol' Senator Schmitt thinks environmentalism is akin to communism. I wonder why? Perhaps it's because being a member of the GOP these days is akin to being a Leninist, where the Party is all, and independent thought is not encouraged:

Gov. Susana Martinez was handed her first setback late last month, when the state Supreme Court ruled that her attempts to reverse carbon-emission mandates set by a panel appointed by the previous governor, Bill Richardson, were illegal. Martinez also fired all the members of the Environmental Improvement Board that had written the rules.

Martinez had tapped Schmitt, a Harvard-educated geologist and skeptic of global warming who has compared the environmental movement to communism, to run the Energy department. He would have been the point man on loosening environmental regulations on the oil and gas industry imposed by Richardson that the industry contends have caused a sharp drop-off in exploration -- and jobs -- in New Mexico.