WH: Pruitt 'Would Acknowledge' He Could Use Taxpayer Dollars Better

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By Nicole Lafond | May 3, 2018 10:16 am

The White House director of legislative affairs acknowledged on Wednesday that Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt could be a better steward of taxpayer dollars.

“I think that we campaigned on a promise to drain the swamp,” Marc Short told CBS News Wednesday. “We have to – we have to be good stewards of taxpayer dollars, and I think that we take that promise seriously to the American people. I think that there are certain areas that the administrator would acknowledge were mistakes that he would want to fix.”

CBS’ Major Garrett then asked if that meant Pruitt could “do a better job” and Short said “yeah.”

“I think he would acknowledge that,” he said. “It’s factual to say that he has delivered on the agenda, and that is important. But I don’t think that you can say that simply delivering on the agenda excuses misuse of taxpayer dollars. I think that many of the things that are still going on with Scott Pruitt are under investigation, and we’re looking at it.”


Read more: https://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/marc-short-pruitt-would-acknowledge-better-steward

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EPA Administrator Under George W. Bush: Pruitt Is Unfit For The Job

By Kate Riga | May 3, 2018 9:26 am

Christine Todd Whitman, EPA administrator under former President George W. Bush, said Thursday that current EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s ethical breaches and undermining of department morale make him unfit for office.

“You can’t just get up one day and decide that something which was deemed by scientists to be a problem for human health and the environment all of a sudden isn’t anymore,” she said on CNN.

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[Freethinker65]

1. Evidently you can if you are in the Trump administration. And the GOP legislature does not care.

(my response to Whitman)

[marble falls]

2. Pol Pot probably could have killed a few less Cambodians, too.

[bronxiteforever]

3. GOP is the Fiscally Prudent Party of Family Values

[marylandblue]

4. There aren't enough Republicans left like Whitman

to form a quorum for your local Rotary Club.

[BumRushDaShow]

5. But then Whitman claimed that Ground Zero debris was not hazardous

And so did Ghouliani back then -

[marylandblue]

6. Not.perfect, but she believes in global warming

[BumRushDaShow]

7. But she also likes to feel-up teen black males

who were racially profiled so she could get a good photo-op -



I'm sorry but being in the neighboring state and being the media market for the southern part of that state, she had a lot of issues (which is probably why she was pulled out as governor).

I get what you are trying to say about the "moderate" Republicans (like the ones we had here in PA like Thornburgh or Ridge or even Arlen Specter - before the teabaggers invaded) but they laid the foundation for what eventually happened in 2010 and helped to enable it. They are not like the earlier ones like a Jack Kemp or even a Gerald Ford.