Canât be soon enough
Gee, do you think Mr. Hartâs firm explained the benefits of early departure to him?
Pruitt: âWhat scandal?â
I am an American Gas & Oil Industry lobbyist, a species of human being that lacks the ability to feel empathy or shame. And I am retiring out of the shame I have brought upon my very lucrative lobbyist firm. But, the political official who I successfully and corruptly lobbied is remaining on his job because he feels no shame.
as we learned a new and personal meaning of âFake Newsâ and âReal Friends,ââ Hart wrote. âThey say if you need a friend in Washington, get a dog. We now know that adage is not always accurate.â
Nice Try.
letâs go with,
We learned that your closest friends usually end up and becoming your enemy and fake news is really describing the truth in some circumstances.
We now know that to keep a true friend, keep money out of the relationship.
So pay your enemies to promote your agenda and keep them close at all times so that when push comes to shove, you just shove and run away so you donât face the consequences.
Seems about right, I think maybe.
Deplorable.
They say sunlight is the best disinfectant. I guess it also melts snowflakes. What a self-pitying way to quit.
See what happens when landlords donât vet their tenants?
Pruitt needs early retirement. He can always go back to what is left of Oklahoma after the fracking earthquakes subside. He is walking smegma!
Why are there so many problems with TPMâs comment sections? Damn, itâs annoying.
GOP strategist Rick Wilson says it best - Everything Donald Trump touches he destroys". That apparently works two degrees outwards, too. Scott Pruitt just hasnât had to pay up yet, but he will.
But thanks for the flowers and cards everyone!
Two-scoops isnât smart enough (except in his own mind) to be Mephistopheles, but whoever the Devil is behind Two-scoops will eventually collect Pruittâs soul.
Actually, I donât blame Hart at all in this specific incident. Heâs a lobbyist. His job is to get public officials to vote his companyâs interests. Pruitt was clearly for sale and Hart just greased that skid. All in a dayâs work. Itâs Pruitt who deserves the blame here for being an easy and willing mark.
Hartâs scumbaggyness started way before Pruitt arrived in town. He and his company advocate the destruction of our planet. He and they shouldnât be allowed in polite company. The bribery of this public official adds no more stain to his black soul than all the rest of his career.
Iâm so old I can remember when telling a racist joke in a locker room was sufficient to force the resignation of a cabinet secretary. Now, apparently, as the song says, Anything Goes.
What am I missing here? A lobbying firm like these exists to get public officials in their pocket, so is this guy just going out while on top? Or is there a real chance of an actual bribery charge coming and heâs âretiringâ to shield the rest of the firm (from which he will maybe get a huge ongoing retirement)?
Iâm really confused by thisâŚ
Gosh, under ordinary circumstances he would just grin and continue the griftâŚmalfeasance and borderline criminality is a feature in the noble "lobbying"profession.
For those of us of a certain age, Dita Beard redux.
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
So, letâs see, we have a scandal big enough to make a lobbyist retire, but tRump, Pruitt and Congress donât see this as a big deal?
Man, the level of griftiness tRump as brought to DC is crazy. Usually, an ethics scandal is enough to end your career, but tRump has brought so much dirt with him, that no one really cares that Pruitt and Carson have been involved in scandals. well, at least no Republican member of Congress is willing to go on record as being concerned.
More collateral damage. Rick Wilson is right: ETTD.