The Koch brothers will be happy to cover the cost difference. Theyāre getting a whopping return on their investment from Pruittās deregulatory spree.
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OMG! Not the Cone of Silence!!
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OMIGODā¦Donnieās tweeting fingers will be worn down to the first knuckle with THIS infoā¦Iām sure heāll be attacking even MORE parts of our government in his attempt to convince his base to elect him DICKtator for LIFE.
Scott Pruitt is not an incompetent administrator.
He is a remarkably successful saboteur.
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I have full confidence that he will be appropriately disciplined.
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Hey! what about the shoe phone? Thatāll fool 'em.
Isnāt this on the same level as having your own personal server?
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So does this automatically trigger a referral to DoJ?
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Looks as if Pruittās double-secret plan is on target.
To get the entire EPA put into federal prison.
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Here comes the sternly-worded letter
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āWe are not paying for your wanking booth.ā
Not illegal! Not illegal! Youāre the illegal!
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The Government Accountability Office declared Monday that the Environmental Protection Agency violated the law by spending more than $43,000 on a soundproof booth for Administrator Scott Pruittās office.
He could get a vintage Cone of Silence for half that price on the CONTROL website.
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Pruitt should have held his planning discussions for this secret soundproof booth in some sort of secret soundproof room, so no one else would find out about it.
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I wonder how tall and wide is Mr. Pruitt? Is his $43,000 phone booth big enough lay down full length? Or will it fit over his BarcaLounger?
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This is all wrong. The ācone of silenceā was in "Get Smart. Pruitt should have built the āceeeement pond.ā
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Pruitt needed to fly first class because he faced an āunprecedentedā number of death threats.
BTW Pruitt, there are people in first class who hate your guts, too.
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My inner civil servant went a bit nuts when I read this one. In government-world an ADA violation is a very big deal. Two points about this. First, whoever signs-off on an expenditure that violates ADA is usually in big trouble. If it was a civil service employee, their career is in jeapardy. Second, any argument about the supposed necessity of the ācone of silenceā is irrelevant ā the expenditure has to be authorized by Congress (either in the original appropriation or subsequently) before you can obligate the money, regardless of how necessary you think the purchase is. When it comes to appropriations, Congress has made a system where you must ask for permission because there is no forgiveness.
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A spokesperson for the agency told the paper that it would serve as a SCIF ā a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility ā and that such secure rooms were āsomething which a number, if not all, Cabinet offices have and EPA needs to have updated.ā
I might actually believe this lame excuse if I had heard it spoken out loud and the ānumberā was pronounced with a silent āb,ā as in ānumbskull.ā
Pruitt sure is a Gumbfuck.