And lord knows, there have been many.In n the backroom of the shebeen, where we’re taking bets FOR AMUSEMENT PURPOSES ONLY on who will be the next member of the president*’s cabinet to get shuffled out of town, we’re seeing a lot of action suddenly on Scott Pruitt, the extraction industry sublet hired to run the Environmental Protection Agency. He has the same private-airplane problem that afflicted the departed Tom Price. [...] And now, The New York Times is fitting his political career for a shroud.
Since taking office in February, Mr. Trump’s E.P.A. chief has held back-to-back meetings, briefing sessions and speaking engagements almost daily with top corporate executives and lobbyists from all the major economic sectors that he regulates — and almost no meetings with environmental groups or consumer or public health advocates, according to a 320-page accounting of his daily schedule from February through May, the most detailed look yet at what Mr. Pruitt has been up to since he took over the agency. Many of those players have high-profile matters pending before the agency, with potentially hundreds of millions of dollars in regulatory costs at stake. Some of these same companies and trade associations were allies of Mr. Pruitt when, as Oklahoma’s attorney general, he sued the E.P.A. at least 14 times to try to block rules Mr. Pruitt is now in charge of enforcing.Pruitt’s selection was the most egregious example of a cabinet pick made specifically to undermine what the goal of the agency is supposed to be
Charles P Pierce
But I have to disagree. Although he is one who's been flying first class, I don't think his is as egregious a case as Tom Price, and until Pruitt runs afoul of Trump, I suspect he'll be staying. We couldn't get so lucky as to have him axed. He's having the most success at deconstructing America and clearing the field for corporate ruination of her.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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