{"id":30313,"date":"2018-06-15T01:14:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-15T01:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30313"},"modified":"2018-06-15T01:15:17","modified_gmt":"2018-06-15T01:15:17","slug":"havent-paid-attention-really-mr-speaker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30313","title":{"rendered":"‘Haven’t paid … close attention’? Really, Mr. Speaker?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan needs to be called out for telling a lie. So, I think I’ll do that.<\/p>\n

He said this today in response to a question about whether he had faith in Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt:<\/p>\n

“Frankly I haven’t paid that close attention to it … I don’t know enough about what Pruitt has or has not done to give you a good comment.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Really and truly, Mr. Speaker? He is saying that all this tumult over EPA Administrator Pruitt’s mounting ethical troubles have gone unnoticed by the nation’s third-in-line for the presidency. He hasn’t paid “close attention to it,” he said.<\/p>\n

Good grief, Mr. Speaker. Do you expect anyone to believe this?<\/p>\n

I am quite certain he knows quite enough to make a comment on Pruitt’s troubles. He just doesn’t want to say anything about it.<\/p>\n

Let me refresh his memory: Pruitt secured a dirt-cheap rental agreement for himself and his wife from a lobbyist who represents a company that is subject to EPA rules and regulations; Pruitt has been spending extravagantly for such things as a “secure telephone booth” in his office; his travel tabs have been exorbitant as well.<\/p>\n

These are ethical matters that keep on piling up.<\/p>\n

It’s been in all the papers. Cable news networks have been reporting on these matters.<\/p>\n

The speaker of the House hasn’t heard enough about it to make a comment, to answer a reporter’s simple and direct question?<\/p>\n

I don’t believe the speaker is telling the truth.<\/p>\n\n

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U.S. House Speaker Paul Ryan needs to be called out for telling a lie. So, I think I’ll do that. He said this today in response to a question about whether he had faith in Environmental Protection Agency Director Scott Pruitt: “Frankly I haven’t paid that close attention to it … I don’t know enough … Continue reading ‘Haven’t paid … close attention’? Really, Mr. Speaker?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1607,1976,3524,6733,4351],"class_list":["post-30313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-epa","tag-government-ethics","tag-paul-ryan","tag-scott-pruitt","tag-speaker-of-the-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30313","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30313"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30315,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30313\/revisions\/30315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}