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Scott Pruitt Resigns as EPA Administrator (cnbc.com)
Scott Pruitt's polarizing tenure as head of the Environmental Protection Agency has come to an end. From a report: President Donald Trump tweeted on Thursday that he has accepted Pruitt's resignation. Trump said that the agency's deputy administrator, Andrew Wheeler, will become the acting head of EPA. The departure follows months of scrutiny that gathered momentum following reports that Pruitt had rented a Capitol Hill condominium linked to an energy lobbyist on favorable terms. The revelation exacerbated concerns about the high cost of Pruitt's travel and security detail and triggered a flood of allegations that Pruitt fostered a culture of workplace retaliation, wasteful spending and self-dealing at EPA. The steady flow of negative news stories prompted multiple government investigators to open several inquiries into Pruitt. His EPA now faces about a dozen probes into its spending, ethics and policy decisions. In a statement, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) said, "Good." Further reading: Judge Orders EPA To Produce Science Behind Pruitt's Climate Claims
What worries me are not the Americans who are horrified at what Trump is doing to our country. I'm far, far more worried about the Americans who think Trump is doing an OK job, the economy is rosy, and he is keeping all his campaign promises to them. Because those are the people who are gonna vote Trump again in 2020 and I'm not sure the US can survive another 4 years of him.
Scott Pruitt resigning is a good thing, but is his replacement going to be as bad, or worse? We need an EPA that puts protecting the environment ahead of corporate interests and ignores 'personal loyalty' to Trump, and you can call me 'anti-Trump' (true, but irrelevant for this subject) or 'pro-Hillary' (untrue, and just as irrelevant), but if your kids are getting cancer (or YOU get cancer) or are born with birth defects because there's toxic substances in your drinking water and/or air, I guarantee that you will care, and if your nice coastal home has to be abandoned because sea levels rise permanently and flood you out, you will care. Try thinking in the long term, Conservative types, and not just about punishing so-called 'liberals', or only as far ahead as next quarters' profits.
The problem with replacing Sessions is he's recused. Anyone Trump gets in there besides him won't be, and would end the investigations causing the big Constitutional crisis that could really... be bad for everybody.
I don't put it past Trump to burn the White House down if he can't have it.
Pruitt had become the poster child for government corruption, but I think Trump actually liked his flamboyance about it. Sort of created cover for Trump's own shenanigans. I am sort of curious which camel broke the straw's back, but mostly I agree with the "good riddance" comments and I'm offended by the holier-than-thou hypocrisy.
The last of the vestigial TRUE Republicans are dying or retiring. The brand has been hijacked.
Gee, do you suppose it would deter the hijackers like Scott Pruitt if someone would lock up their kids? You know, the old collective responsibility thing.
Freedom = (Meaningful - Coerced) Choice != (Speech | Beer^2), and sad sock puppets' bad mods avail them naught.
Yeah, there are some of the poeple you are speaking of
Then there are the single issue voters - like anti-abortionists/Evangelicals and the folks who have been convinced that illegal immigration is this HUGE problem. And the NRA fanatical gun supporters that want no gun control at all - on any level.
They live and breath those issues and don't give a shit about anything else.
I live in a Waffle House state and I can tell you that I'm surrounded by those people. Some are in my family. Holidays are real fun because I hear, "I love Trump!!" from others and approval from around the room.
Democrats have been so effectively demonized by Fox News and the conservative pundits that if one were the Republican nominee, he could make a political ad that showed him half naked with a half naked teen on his lap, an empty bottle of Jack Daniels and him saying, "I have an R by my name. You're gonna vote for me no matter what! Moron!" and then flip them off.
The Republicans would all fall in line and vote for their "team".
Just remember, Roy Moore (R) - the accused child molester in Alabama - was very close to winning Alabama's Senate seat. Just the fact that he was close tells you of the mentality of those people.
Trump is an adulterer, liar, total buffoon and he won.
Those people WILL vote for him again. I KNOW for a fact.
Doesn't work, whichever 3rd party that replaces one of the main stream ones will just have all the members of the main stream one move to the new party.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
I especially love the people who think it's so important to imprison asylum seekers indefinitely on minor misdemeanor charges (because the law is the law), but official corruption is totally cool because they're doing God's work.
Hell, the people who are incensed that Hillary Clinton still hasn't been locked up for having a personal email server completely dismiss the fact that half of the current administration does the same thing. Hillary can't be trusted with classified information because she used an insecure server, Trump can use an insecure phone and blab classified intel to our adversaries all he wants because he's the President so it's legal!
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What's this shit about pens? Why are you throwing up a smoke screen for the man?
He's currently under 17 ethics violation, not a single one of them has anything to do with some fucking overpriced pens.
Don't try to purposefully conflate people trying to throw dirt at the man with the very real ethics violation and corruption he's been caught red-handed engaging in.