Buh-bye Scotty.
Test case for whether the replacement is inevitably worse.
GLWT.
Please select your preferred gap between ribs, Scott.
Hey Scott, See ya - wouldn’t want to be ya!
You have built up some pretty ugly Karma with the destructive path you have sown across Oklahoma and through the country.
… For further details, see TPM’s extended list of Pruitt spending here:
• A soundproof phone booth in Pruitt’s office, even though the EPA already has so-called “Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities”: $43,000, including installation.
Bullet-resistant seat covers, alongside plenty of other unnecessary additions on a new SUV lease that was itself unnecessary, because the EPA already had one: $10,200 yearly lease.
Five-digit raises for seven EPA staffers featured in a recent EPA IG document who had mostly worked at the EPA for less than a year: $204,693, despite Pruitt’s professed ignorance of the raises.
Well-funded trips abroad, including to Italy ($120,000) and a planning trip to Australia by two staffers and three security officers ($45,000) even though the actual trip by Pruitt never happened.
An unprecedentedly massive, 24/7 security detail that Pruitt’s taken along to venues like the Rose Bowl and Disneyland: At least $3,000,000.
Cost to repair the door to Pruitt’s former townhouse, after said security detail smashed through it in a panic, only to find Pruitt napping inside: $2,460.
Sweep for surveillance devices in the administrator’s office: $3,000.
A now-cancelled contract for media monitoring with a GOP opposition research firm: $120,000.
Subsequent contract to another GOP-aligned media firm to produce a reporting touting Pruitt’s accomplishments: $6,500.
Private, charter and business-class flights justified as security expenses because Pruitt was apparently getting cursed at on airplanes: Tens of thousands of dollars, at least.
Well, the administration is certainly evolving, let’s say, in its ability to more subtly manage the reactions to how much it sucks. Support him, but less vehemently, because we’re letting him twist in the wind for a while until it’s less of story kthxbai.
When your guy is undergoing ten simultaneous colonoscopies, it might be time to dial down the ass-kissing.
Hard to imagine worse but in this badministration…
Y’know, an Oklahoma AG doesn’t just come to DC and start running up corruption and spending like Pruitt’s without some practice at it beforehand.
TPM, maybe it’s time to have someone investigate Pruitt’s history of spending, etc., while he was still AG in OK.
If you make them miserable and hopeless enough, you don’t have to fire them! They just quit and/or go away.
It’s the perfect cowardly, low-energy option for a cowardly, low-energy president. Sad (really).
Or, as I like to call it, a tragi-comi-malministastrophe.
trump’s tic-tac prelude to the kiss of death.
I’ll say
A walking talking poster boy for Malfeasance
“the White House’s message to lawmakers about reeling in their defenses of Pruitt may signal that Trump may eventually relent and ditch his EPA chief.”
Uh huh. Or it might signal that Trump has gas and was merely farting at the time. Reading signals from the WH has never been so cryptic!
FIFY.
I’ll admit to being a little disappointed. I was hoping Pruitt would stick around through the midterms.
actually, I think he might