Gee imagine that, Pruitt is as incompetent at his mission to deregulate within his Regulatory Agency, as he is at pretending to be serving the country rather than greedily committing graft. Guessing both areas of extreme incompetence stem from the same personal characteristic: extreme arrogance.
It is one of the few examples of when it might be prudent to be thankful for dude’s high degree of incompetence, as it limits the degree of damage he is leaving in his wake.
Wow who would have thought the Environmental Protection Agency would have rules prohibiting unprotecting the environment? Not only that but people who would question policies not beneficial to the environment.
This is at best a temporary inconvenience. They are working to eliminate this as quickly as possible.
Procedural Potholes
Hang on Scotty !
This highlights the benefit of a competent government workforce that knows how to make lasting change stick. The Obama people knew how to institute change that would make it difficult for the burn-it-down types to just come in and undo progress wholesale. It may end up being a temporary setback for Pruitt, but assuming legal delay through the end of the current congress and a Democrat take over of the House and some of this stuff will never come to pass.
It sure is the pits that keeping our air clean and our streams pollution free has interfered with the Republicans desire to rape the country. I’m just a ‘little bit’ bitter this morning.
Unfortunately he’s quite competent, unlike the other Trump apparatchiks. Anybody trying to destroy the regs would have run up against the blocks Pruitt has hit. The real devastation is in the rank and file of these agencies, the exodus of good people and the knowledge they possess. The destruction of the federal government will be Trump’s legacy, long after he’s gone.
You are so very right. And it is a critical point.
In light of how serious the gutting out of expertise is - and how long lasting the impact is likely to be, I feel almost bad starting out so flippantly. (It’s just the whole Trumpworld evokes flippancy… as a coping mechanism).
If only we could just hit Pruitt, toss him in a pothole and pave over it.
Better to secure him deep inside an old injection hole used for fracking.
Regulations don’t go quietly as long as they are based on sound legal policy and data. Pruitt is trying to overturn rules like that with smoke and lies, so it’s not going to go well no matter how hard he pushes. It’s fortunate that’s how our system is set up, but it can’t last forever…if they are in there long enough they will trash everything, it’s imperative we get the government back into rational hands as quickly as possible.