Past performance is no guarantee of future results-The hell it's not!

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Did you ever pay attention to end of those commercials for mutual funds and investment companies? They always end with the admonition that "past performance is not a guarantee of future results". A disclaimer that things might not always work the way they have been. When it comes to Scott Pruitt, it's quite a different story. Who could possibly have predicted that he would be in bed with polluters? Anybody who paid attention to his tenure as Oklahoma Attorney General, that's who. His little escapade with the under priced rental? Amazingly, not the first time something like that went on. Sense of entitlement? Seems like that's his defining characteristic-I guess aside from being smarmy and corrupt.

None of his behavior, as abhorrent as it may be, should come as a surprise to anyone who looked into his background. It's all been done by him before. He's just taken it to a national level now. He presided over Tar Creek, OK, one of the most toxic places in America. He adopted the positions of the regulated community in his state word-for-word. Cozy relationships with lobbyists. shady money? Been there, done that. Every scummy thing he has done at the EPA was predicted by his past. Only now he gets to visit the consequences of his corruption on the entire country, not just Oklahoma. Trump told the truth about one thing-he'd only hire the best. Pruitt is the clearly the best at being a corrupt toady for corporate interests this country has ever seen in a public official. It's high time to lance this boil on the butt of democracy and send him packing.

David Walters, a former Oklahoma governor and Democrat, described Mr. Pruitt as someone who looked out for himself over the needs of constituents, especially during his years as attorney general.

“I was disappointed to find him operating in a hyperpartisan manner and seemingly representing corporate interests over Oklahoma citizens,” Mr. Walters said.

Scott Pruitt Before the E.P.A.: Fancy Homes, a Shell Company and Friends With Money :https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/21/us/politics/scott-pruitt-oklahoma-epa.html

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Oklahoma is probably glad Pruitt is gone...as a former boomer sooner (born, Tulsa), I've ...

always had a soft spot for OK and anything OK-related. They have a great western US history museum that you could literally spend days in.

Too bad that Pruitt came out of this state...it kind of ruins the mood, but I don't let it get me down, I'd go again in a heartbeat being that it was nice, entertaining, and full of good people, none of whom even approaches the level of governmental hypocrisy, blatant stealing of non-essential governmental services (guards for an EPA administrator?).

I say nail his lying, stealing ass to the wall, and put him in prison where he belongs.

[2naSalit]

2. K&R

[Laxman]

3. Let's Hope That His Days Are Numbered.....

at the EPA. He's begging for a "Pruitt Crime Digest". Wouldn't be hard to find material. A good article here, but I must admit, I find nothing comical about his corruption.....

Comically Corrupt Grifter Scott Pruitt’s Free Lunches and Fancy-Pen-Buying Days Are Numbered

With a Niagara Falls-like torrent of news exposing Scott Pruitt’s passion for penny-ante corruption, it can be hard to remember what evidence of his moral bankruptcy came to light last month, or even just last week. Top of most people’s minds, at the moment, is that the Environmental Protection Agency administrator tried to use his government position to score his wife a Chick-fil-A franchise, and that a scheduler he used as a personal assistant was tasked with sourcing him a used Trump International Hotel mattress. On the other hand, you may not remember that Pruitt also spent around $1,560 of taxpayer money on 12 fancy fountain pens, and roughly the same amount on fancy journals. But he did! And unfortunately for ol’ Pruitt, his fancy-pen-buying days may be numbered, if Representative Marcy Kaptur has anything to say about it.

In a delightful turn of events, Kaptur decided to stick an amendment into the E.P.A. interior bill barring Pruitt from buying any single pen that costs more than $50, and her colleagues agreed it was a great idea.

read the rest here: https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/scott-pruitts-free-lunches-and-fancy-pen-buying-days-are-numbered