Republican Senator Calls Pruitt 'as Swampy as You Get'

[DonViejo]

Source: Bloomberg News



By Jennifer A Dlouhy and Mario Parker
June 5, 2018, 11:31 AM EDT

Republican Senator Joni Ernst blasted allegations of ethical misconduct by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, calling him “about as swampy as you get.”

Pruitt’s tenure at the Environmental Protection Agency is under intensifying scrutiny, with at least 10 federal investigations probing his $50-per-night rental of a bedroom in a Capitol Hill condominium from a lobbyist, his frequent taxpayer-funded travel and his spending decisions.

“He is about as swampy as you get here in Washington, D.C., and if the president wants to drain the swamp, he needs to take a look at his own cabinet,” said Ernst, of Iowa.

Ernst said she was frustrated with Pruitt’s handling of the U.S. biofuel mandate, arguing that he is undermining President Donald Trump’s campaign commitment to support ethanol.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-05/gop-senator-ernst-calls-epa-chief-pruitt-as-swampy-as-you-get

[exboyfil]

1. You voted for him Joni

No problemo until an action he takes hurts you constituency.

[BootinUp]

3. That's today's lesson in transparency. Nt

[marble falls]

8. I wonder how those Iowa soy bean farmers feel about the Chinese buying all those beans from Russia..

The whole administration has been bad for Iowa, how do they keep supporting Trump?

[exboyfil]

9. Particularly ironic given

who the Ambassador of China is. Our very own Terry Braindead (er Branstad). I used to live in Branstad country in the 1990s. I almost used Braindead in front of his aunt. She was a very nice woman.

[vishnura]

2. Too late!

You are responsible, you voted him in!

[slumcamper]

4. Yep, too late. WTG. And you're a swamp critter too, Joni.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. These guys (Pruitt, Rump, Perry, etc.) have outgrown the ...

swamp and are toxic beyond belief.

What in the world do they think that their lives afterwards (rump admin) will be like? Society is going to drop them like a hot potato and they'll discover the 'rump' effect (those who have worked for this corrupt admin will find out that no one wants anything to do w/ them).

Reap what you sow...eh? Serves them right.

Pathetic.

[ToxMarz]

6. If it weren't for the ethanol mandate, she would think he was awesome

they are such bought and paid for hypocrites.

[KY_EnviroGuy]

7. Note her concerns are all about business.....

and not public health and the environment - typical Repug attitude. Where's her concerns about Pruitt's systematic dismantling of the EPA and its environmental regulations, and Pruitt's blatant corruption?

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Ernst said she was frustrated with Pruitt’s handling of the U.S. biofuel mandate, arguing that he is undermining President Donald Trump’s campaign commitment to support ethanol.

“Mr. Pruitt is breaking our president’s promises to farmers,” Ernst said at the Platts Energy Podium in Washington.

Joni, since Pruitt has alway been a lapdog of big oil, how can he possibly look after corn farmers and Exxon too?

.......

[sueh]

10. Uh-oh, Joni. Better put those bread bags on your feet. You'll be walking in some poopy-doo!