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Scott Pruitt Is Out at the EPA
Nooooo!
Why? I’m traveling, so can’t watch video now.
The only thing unprecedented is the Left’s vicious and unrelenting attacks on a sitting Cabinet member and his family.
Good, he has proven to be corrupt in a cartoonish way.
About time. Now get someone in there with the same policy agenda and avoid the stupid personal stuff.
Please explain further.
This has some stuff that helps.
He enlisted an EPA staffer to help his wife secure a Chick-fil-A franchise.
He spent $43,000 to create a soundproof booth in his office.
He regularly traveled first class on airlines at taxpayer expense.
He took a security detail on personal trips.
He rented a DC Condo from the wife an energy lobbyist for far below market rates.
He gave raises to EPA staffers without going through standard processes.
His policy proposals were great and his work to pare back regulations was also very good, but he was corrupt and we can do better. This is especially true of a President who vowed to drain the swamp.
Explain further, please.
Not much…there’re a lot of words to have two sentences…which require me to go googling for more info…
These are the only two I have a real issue with that has no justification I would accept.
These seem petty? The latter more than the former. I’m surprised by the push back on First Class flights. I’m impressed by government heads who travel by economy because that seems unusual. I’d think first class for a gov’t head would be normal behavior. The staffer bit is obviously not their job, but there are explanations for it that I would find understandable or entertaining.
Given the climate of politics, fully understandable.
Add to that list that he kept a secret calendar to hide meetings from public scrutiny.
He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
Anyone who uses government resources to enrich himself should be suspect and is contributing to the stench of the swamp.
I guess so. Sounds like typical DC crap to me.
More about the character issue that was brought out by him achieving some level of power.
That’s exactly the problem. Secondarily, any R has to be perfect, but Ds can get away with almost anything because we know they have no principles.
I like what’s he done at the EPA so far, but the stupidity of how he goes about his life made him unsuitable for office. From what I’ve heard, his Deputy has the same beliefs and philosophy about how to bring the EPA to heel. If true, bump him up . . .
Please. If that happened under a Democratic administration, Republicans would have been all over it.
And nothing would have come of it.
I am disappointed. I liked what he was doing at EPA. He was my favorite of Trump’s picks.
Also, in a different administration it wouldn’t have gone as far as it did with Pruitt. There was a colossal failure of management here.
True. Still, as stated before, when one’s promised to “Drain the swamp” it’s perhaps best to avoid distinctly swampy behavior. I’m ambivalent about this. There’s been some good change at the EPA, but I hope we needn’t depend on a single person to do it flawed or no.
Pruitt was hated by his people, and they set out to destroy him. They succeeded. All we hear is their side of things, many of which could have been engineered to embarrass him from the beginning.
Why did the EPA hate him? Because he is not an earth-worshipping socialist like they are.
This is a terrible loss for America. Pruitt is the single best EPA administrator the country has ever had.
Sure, but Jonah might as well say that water is wet.
A correction: Pruitt destroyed himself.
Well, if I were surrounded by a staff of 99% Democrats who get paid to leak stuff to a hostile media, I might want some protection, sound-proof and otherwise.
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Is it unethical for Pruitt’s wife to have ANY job in Washington?
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“far below market rates”
I was just listening to Rush Limbaugh recap the Ted Stevens case this week. The accusation was “far below market rates” when the contractor was actually charging double.
And it was the Bush administration Justice Department which ran Ted Stevens out of office — which gave us Obamacare.
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Republican-appointed EPA administrators who endorsed Hillary Clinton:
Scott Pruitt was actually a conservative EPA administrator. That may never happen again.
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Read instead Kevin Williamson’s December 31 profile of Scott Pruitt:
https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2017/12/31/scott-pruitts-epa-reformation-re-shaping-agency/
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Neil Gorsuch’s mother was also EPA chief. I think she was run out of town too.
True. But a better bureaucrat/politician could have avoided the traps.
Not being douchey goes a long way.
I remain unconvinced that Pruitt was the scourge of our republic. I now await Columbo’s further explanation.
It can be simultaneously true that Scott Pruitt did some good things and that he was a corrupt swamp creature.