Only one year? Should be for the whole of your tenure ā¦ but youāre a Thug, so itās okay (in your mind).
My thought exactly. He filed the suit, so the conflict does not simply disappear with time. As long as the suit continues and he remains chief of the defendant agency he sued the conflict of interest remains. One would think this would not have to be spelled out for himā¦ Oh, wait. He knows this already but just wants to orchestrate his suit successfully from the inside.
Political Thuggery. āConservativesā of today are committing political thuggery and they know it. They are not Republicans ā they are Thuglicans ā¦ Thugs, for short.
Iām guessing someone pointed out the optics, so heās trying to slip this in while disguising the one year limitā¦these lawsuits will take longer than a year. And, I guarantee that his recusal wonāt include putting underlings who agree with him over this, so it will be just like heās running it.
Thereās 2% milk and now thereās 2% not awful. Maybe heās wised up to the fact the Congressional majority has just leapt off the cliff and a Democratic House will not let this crap skate.
Follow the moneyā¦
Trump has a long list of investments in fossil fuel companies. Pruitt is a fossil fuels cheerleader.
The recusal is window dressing. Trump can get the EPA regs rolled back via EO or legislation. And then Pruitt can implement the rollbacks.
Trump profits and Pruittās employment in the private sector is secure for life.
As long as heās not stepping back from the policy issues, the recusal is meaningless. The EPA wins the suits and Pruitt directs them to change the regulations the way he wants anyway.
He wonāt have much to do now.
āThis administration is running like a fine-tuned machine,ā Trump said. āDespite the fact that I canāt get my Cabinet approved, and they are outstanding people.ā Feb. 16, 2017
Itās always a good sign to have Cabinet secretaries who must recuse themselves from issues related their departments.
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Maybe he wonāt be in office for more than a year.
Gee, yah think?
Because heās involved, heavily involved, in litigation.
You know, most employers have much more rigorous standards over who they hire for sensitive jobs.
Oh bless his ratfking little heartā¦This is the equivalent to saying āIām sorry if anyone is offendedā after telling one of their egregious little jokesā¦and then insisting Colbert should be āfiredā for a word.
āAs Oklahomaās attorney general, I filed thirty seven suits against the evil EPA. Iām happy to report that I prevailed in every single one of them.ā
And just as importantly, purging those who disagree with him.
Times are dark, and getting darker. In firing the members of the Science Advisory Board, Pruitt said nothing.
The board is tasked with reviewing the work of EPA scientists and provides feedback that can be a powerful voice in shaping the agencyās future research. The cuts ājust came out of nowhere,ā Richardson said.
This follows the kleptocrat line that shifts the blame for the world as it is from them to professionals, administrators and the researchers who have spent many years in school. The delusive simplicity. We should have seen this coming. Scientists that acknowledge or even mention the damage inflicted by business interests, especially those involved in resource extraction (minerals and water) or introduction of chemicals into our bodies and the environment (poor biodegradables, toxins, carcinogens, endocrine disruptors, etc.), now face economic sanctions. What is notable about Trumpās entire cabinet is that none of them have any credibility with the academic community. That alone should have triggered alarms and poured water on the complacency over the persistence of meritocracy. Thatās gone, people.
Yāall are correct. He probably will check out after one year. Go into private practice and make much more money instituting new suits as plaintiffās attorney. Be too bad if we can wrest control of the House and oversight is reinstituted, but all these guys think thisāll be a 1000-year reich (pace Godwin). In fact, I hope they continue to āproceedā with the arrogance.
Derrived from the Thuggee cult of India.
Isnāt that nice? You are stepping away, you thieving price of dung! Meaningless gesture! Heāll be up to his dick in repeal measures and policy changeasāwhich was reason enough for tRump to bring this jackass into the cabinet.