It is because when he was nominated he thought the Secretary of the Department of Energy was sort of like an ambassador for the oil and gas industry. He had no idea that the Department of Energy was responsible for safeguarding the nation’s nuclear arsenal and materials or research into new energy sources. #RickPerry
The most amazing thing about this is that he wanted to eliminate a Department that he knew nothing about in 2012. After that screw up, you would have at least thought he would’ve looked up the wikipedia page for the DOE.
Rick Perry follows in the footsteps of Secretary Ernest Moniz, a nuclear physicist and former Chair at MIT, and Steven Chu, a physicist and former Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
As unqualified goes, it appears that Perry is bested only by Betsy DeVos and of course Donald J. Trump in the new administration. What a shit show.