Question
Okay, so it’s a Deal a Day with Scott Pruitt.
Four days ago, it was $1,560 on personalized fountain pens.
Three days ago, it was ethically challenged ringside seats at a basketball game.
Yesterday, it was a used mattress from a Trump hotel. (Doesn’t he know what Trump likes hookers to do on mattresses?)
Today, it’s that he used government staff to try to get his wife a job at Chick-fil-A. And, hell, it’s only noon. There could be a Daily Double today!
Now if this is what he does in public, can you even imagine what he does in a $43,000 soundproof phone booth?
Records are showing that Pruitt lived far beyond his means before he got to Washington, and now he’s living far beyond my means. Typical Republican.
Vote for the Democrat in every election, every year. It’s the only way to get these crooks out.
1Woah, or is it Woe?
I only read the pen item: they were meant for gifts to foreign dignitaries.
Excuse me, your pen cost makes it in “bribe” level for many governments.
I’m flummoxed, is there no one able to tell this spendthrift that even if they do that, he can’t do that?
I hate Trump. I hate his cronies. And I really want to hate the people who keep saying he’s doing a good job. Unfortunately, one of them is my mother.
2There appears to nothing whatever Scott Pruitt can do that would get him fired. What does he know, about whom?
3He didn’t try to get his wife a job, he tried to get them to give her a franchise. She didn’t get it. My bet is that the folks at Chick-Fil-A require some money up front for the franchise and were unwilling to make the bribe. And you know that Pruitt never buys anything with his own money.
4Pruitt’s loyalty in not for sale – but it can be rented…
5I wish what he’s doing to our natural heritage, the wild lands and wildlife– what little is left– was as much of a scandal as his spending, but I’d be happy to see his butt get kicked back to Oklahoma any way it goes. Trouble is, his replacement will be just as ugly.
6Mr. Pruitt is merely demonstrating how badly broken the Federal Gov’t is, by breaking it even more. this will give the oligarchs additional proof that it all needs to be burned down to the ground, with the glorious corp-state rising from the ashes.
7That Other Jean:
8For years, on most construction sites I’ve worked on, the stock answer to your question was that the person in question had photographic evidence of someone with influence romantically engaged with a goat.
But spoken a little more colorfully.
Definitely not for mama’s ears.
Scott Pruitt deserves to be memorialized as a verb, like:
Don’t turn your back on that guy, he’ll pruitt you in a heartbeat. Once he walks out the door, you’ll be lucky to have the shirt on your back.
9Looking forward to @MerriamWebster making tomorrow’s word of the day venal.
Venal: Capable of being bought or obtained for money or other valuable consideration: purchasable; especially: open to corrupt influence and especially bribery: mercenary. From the Latin venum “for sale.”
10The Navy Mess has asked him to quit eating there so often and bringing guests, $400 for one month. Another low-rent crook, praised by T. at last Cabinet meeting.
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