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Dread Pirate Roberts

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Wed Apr 18, 2018, 08:51 AM Apr 2018

Scott Pruitt Has Become Ridiculous-NY Times Editorial

Now this doesn't really take a great deal of insight. Every day he continues in his job he is wreaking havoc that will take a generation to undo-if some of this damage can even be undone. All in the pursuit of the financial exploitation of our resources. I wonder what he's been promised by the energy industry when he's through?

Scott Pruitt Has Become Ridiculous

Despite stiff competition, Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is by common consensus the worst of the ideologues and mediocrities President Trump chose to populate his cabinet. Policies aside — and they’re terrible, from an environmental perspective — Mr. Pruitt’s self-aggrandizing and borderline thuggish behavior has disgraced his office and demoralized his employees. We opposed his nomination because he had spent his career as attorney general of Oklahoma suing the federal department he was being asked to lead on behalf of industries he was being asked to regulate. As it turns out, Mr. Pruitt is not just an industry lap dog but also an arrogant and vengeful bully and small-time grifter, bent on chiseling the taxpayer to suit his lifestyle and warm his ego.


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Scott Pruitt Has Become Ridiculous-NY Times Editorial (Original Post) Dread Pirate Roberts Apr 2018 OP
Become? Sherman A1 Apr 2018 #1
Scott Pruitt is a human oil spill. IluvPitties Apr 2018 #2
Pruitt had a long dirty history in Oklahoma dalton99a Apr 2018 #3
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