Well I’ll be damned. Philip Cooney, the White House operative at the center of the recent hullabaloo over editing government climate-change reports, has resigned.

Why, you ask?

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To spend time with his family!

Anybody wanna lay bets on how long it takes Cooney to find another lucrative lobbying job for the Fossil Faction?

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