Pruitt truly sounds like he needs a psychiatric exam.
I hope his state’s Obamacare will cover it, after he is fired.
My father is evil and wants to take over the world. Really, has anyone ever seen Scott Pruitt and Doctor Evil in the same room together?
Just another cheapjack grifter.
“. . . his swollen security detail blew through overtime budgets and at times diverted officers away from investigating environmental crimes.”
But you’d see, I’d contend that this is an effective use of resources, seeing as Pruitt himself is an environmental crime.
More seriously . . . to my knowledge, there’s one reported instance of a man in coach on an airplane yelling at Pruitt, which he used as an excuse to fly first class. From that, it seems, all the self-aggrandizing behavior has followed. (I’m surprised, by the way, that no one has looked into his time as the state attorney general for Oklahoma to see how he conducted himself there when the oil companies weren’t literally writing his legal challenges to EPA regulations . . . )
America: Come for the corruption, stay for the burning tire dumps!
Trump: Obama is everywhere. You never know when he will take our guns away.
The source described the Italian additions as personal friends of Perrotta, who joined Pruitt and his EPA staff for an hours-long dinner at an upscale restaurant.
Swamp Thing and Son of Swamp Thing.
How can the public get their money back?
Salary caps?
The feds have salary caps? Who knew?
He is writing oppo ads for his future campaign for gov in Oklahoma:
Elect Pruitt, and there will be no money left in the budget for anything.
Budget Buster!
Red Ink Pruitt.
etc. (add any that come to mind)
Turns out the GOP Bubble is very vulnerable to attack, looks like.
OT but Nat. Guard troops are being deployed to the Mexican border to deal with a non-existent problem. Isn’t that just like trump to manufacture a crisis?
Pruitt is massively corrupt, even by the standards of the Trump kleptocracy. Let that sink in.
“The insufferable arrogance of human beings to think that Nature was made solely for their benefit, as if it was conceivable that the sun had been set afire merely to ripen men’s apples and head their cabbages.”
– Cyrano De Bergerac
Back in the 90s, I had a pal who had a job working security for an, um… elderly, paranoid German couple in rural New England. It paid really well. I asked if he spend most of his time reassuring them they are ok, and that no one was trying to kill them.
He said, “Hell no! Every other night or so I fire my rifle off into the woods and come back and tell them I got another one! It’s a great gig.”
This is Trump’s policy on everything.
1.8 million Americans will be diagnosed with cancer this year, with environmental pollutants overtaking such factors as smoking. Seems like $3 million is a small price to pay to get that number up over 2 million. Plus, by the time Pruitt gets done, every woman within 100 miles of a fracking operation with know how to say “endocrine disruptor”.
Besides standard griftiness he seems to have a really quirky sort of paranoia going on. Soundproof booths, an army of security, bulletproof desk, on and on. Then there’s how the condo owners had to change the damn locks to keep him out? That’s not grift, that’s a damn oddball with a runaway budget.
Have you been to Oklahoma? Political ads there are mostly about guns and Jesus, and that’s not an exaggeration. Trailing in a campaign is a call for ads with more guns and more Jesus. If you have not seen this, you would not believe it. Oklahoma is not like any other place. Everyone there is as crazy as a pet 'coon. Pruitt is not weird there.
So the paranoia is not just confined to Pruitt and the EPA apparently DHS doesn’t know how not to stir the shit.
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/homeland-security-searchable-database_us_5ac7f41de4b07a3485e4bb1d
And make sure you check out Tyler Q. Houlton’s unprofessional twitter response at the end, he’s the DHS spox.
Death threats my ass. The other cabinet members have a couple of people on security detail, a friend used to be on one This POS is exploiting everything he can while he can, with no concern about what is appropriate or legal. Pathetic. We need a criminal investigation-- he is no different than Anne Gorsuch in the Reagan years.