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DELINGPOLE: Scott Pruitt Is Failing to Drain the Swamp at the EPA
breitbart.com ^ | 27 Mar 2017 | James Delingpole

Posted on 03/27/2017 4:17:27 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

President Trump’s attempts to drain the swamp are being undermined by one of his key administrators.

President Trump’s attempts to drain the swamp are being undermined by one of his key administrators.

Scott Pruitt, head of the Environmental Protection Agency, is more interested in building his political career than he is taking on the Green Blob, insiders report.

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Pruitt is also said to be behind attempts to remove at least one of the key phrases from the president’s long-awaited Executive Order on the environment.

It concerns a proposal to repeal the EPA’s Endangerment Finding on CO2 (the disastrous, unscientific, job-killing ruling introduced during the Obama Administration, which rebranded the harmless trace gas Carbon Dioxide as a dangerous substance).

If Pruitt is successful and this clause is removed from the Executive Order it will represent a major setback for President Trump’s war with the Climate Industrial Complex. It may also put into jeopardy the promises Trump made on the campaign trail to scrap “any regulation that is outdated, unnecessary, bad for workers, or contrary to the national interest.”

“This is the president’s one shot at winning this battle,” an ally in the EPA camp warns. “It’s like the French heavy cavalry at Agincourt: lose momentum and he’s going to get stuck in the mud being shot to pieces by the English longbows.”


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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: climatechange; co2; epa; globalwarming; pruitt; scottpruitt; trump
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1 posted on 03/27/2017 4:17:27 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: SunkenCiv; NormsRevenge; Grampa Dave; SierraWasp; TigersEye; Oynx; Marine_Uncle; BenLurkin; ...

If true,....not Good!


2 posted on 03/27/2017 4:20:52 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach (The swamp is worse than most can imagine.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

It seems the global cabal extraterrestrials have successfully replace the real Scott Pruitt with their replica Scott Pruitt.


3 posted on 03/27/2017 4:24:17 PM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Feminism DESTROYED females)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Well, this is a surprise. Need corroboration from other sources, however.
4 posted on 03/27/2017 4:25:51 PM PDT by Truth29
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Eliminating the EPA’s CO2 fraud is THE MAIN THING that Trump’s reps need to eliminate. And it needs to be gone 100% — and quickly.


5 posted on 03/27/2017 4:28:46 PM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

You mean.....Bill Clinton lied when he said “the era of Big Government is over”?


6 posted on 03/27/2017 4:31:58 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Oh man. Something happens to people in Washington. I hope this turns out to be inaccurate.


7 posted on 03/27/2017 4:32:50 PM PDT by SE Mom (Screaming Eagle mom)
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To: SE Mom
Something happens to people...

Yeah, surveillance, then blackmail.

8 posted on 03/27/2017 4:36:23 PM PDT by mewzilla (Was Obama surveilling John Roberts? Might explain a lot.)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

And exactly how long has he been in charge? about a month. How many of his new subordinates whom he needs to run the EPA have been approved by the Senate? probably ZERO — thus he is left with Obama’s socialists in key positions.

I think this group is screaming too soon.


9 posted on 03/27/2017 4:38:43 PM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I worked for the government, all about empire building. I can guarantee you that no government executive wants to shrink his department, all about more, increasingly complicated, expanded authority, and increased funding.

Sad but true.


10 posted on 03/27/2017 4:45:25 PM PDT by Kenny
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Trump is a nice guy. Nobody fears him.


11 posted on 03/27/2017 4:49:47 PM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Pruitt fought the EPA almost continuously while OK AG.

I fly fish and read several fly fishing websites.

Those websites describe Pruitt as the devil himself.

I really don’t have the energy to defend him against them and people on here that get their information from a website authored by a guy I’ve never heard of.

The guy hasn’t been confirmed for a month yet.

If he quits there’s no way a more anti-EPA person will ever get 50 votes for confirmation.

The EPA decides someone is in violation and then it is up to the accused to prove their innocence. That is actually the direct opposite of American jurisprudence. It is run more like a Stalin era Soviet agency than anything in America. The little guy can’t afford to fight and gets crushed. Large corporations love it because they have an army of lawyers to comply with the regulations and their smaller competitors go bankrupt.

We need a head that reverses that.


12 posted on 03/27/2017 4:50:29 PM PDT by hirn_man
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

He’s discovered the money to be made pushing the climate change meme.


13 posted on 03/27/2017 4:54:25 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

This guy was hyped to the public as the EPA’s worst nightmare!

Now we’re being told he’s a closet Pussy Hatter!

Just crossing the beltway into DC seems to turn brains to Jello.

Maybe it’s the swamp gas.


14 posted on 03/27/2017 4:55:58 PM PDT by Vlad The Inhaler (Best long term prep for conservatives: Have big families & out-breed the illegals & muslims.)
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To: hirn_man

I haven’t kept up with this, but if he hasn’t been confirmed yet, then he’d be foolish to talk about doing away with the CO2 nonsense. Wait till he’s been confirmed. No point in giving your enemies more weapons. It’s bad enough as it is.


15 posted on 03/27/2017 4:56:29 PM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

Trump hired the guy.

If Scott Pruitt really is a RINO who hopes to move up the political food chain, then Trump is at fault, and no one else.


16 posted on 03/27/2017 4:58:28 PM PDT by zeestephen
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To: Vlad The Inhaler

You are likely right on the swamp gas. The left is stirring the pot with fake news trying to trash the Trump administration.


17 posted on 03/27/2017 5:05:18 PM PDT by fudimo
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To: Cicero

My post was inarticulate.

He was confirmed, but less than a month ago.

Sorry for the confusion.


18 posted on 03/27/2017 5:07:28 PM PDT by hirn_man
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To: Cicero

He was confirmed Feb. 17th.


19 posted on 03/27/2017 5:07:34 PM PDT by Truth29
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Re: “...a guy I’ve never heard of.”

James Delingpole is Breitbart’s UK bureau chief.

At one time or another, Delingpole has written for almost all the Conservative publications in England.

He is a self-taught expert on climate issues, and his Climate essays are frequently published at Watts Up With That, which is the number one anti-Man Made Global Warming website in the world.

20 posted on 03/27/2017 5:11:33 PM PDT by zeestephen
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