{"id":30774,"date":"2018-07-05T23:21:11","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T23:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30774"},"modified":"2018-07-05T23:21:11","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T23:21:11","slug":"pruitt-shows-sickening-fealty-to-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30774","title":{"rendered":"Pruitt shows sickening fealty to POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Scott Pruitt is gone as head of the Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p>\n<p>The myriad ethical scandals overtook him. I&#8217;ve already commented on that. With this post, though, I want to offer a brief look at the sickening letter of resignation that Pruitt sent to Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>So help me, Pruitt didn&#8217;t understand something about the job he occupied. Which is that he worked for you me. He didn&#8217;t work exclusively for the president. Yet his letter speaks of how &#8220;God&#8217;s providence&#8221; helped elect Trump.<\/p>\n<p>His letter says in part: <em>My desire in service to you has always been to bless you as you make important decisions for the American people. I believe you are serving as President today because of God\u2019s providence. I believe that same providence brought me into your service. I pray as I have served you that I have blessed you and enabled you to effectively lead the American people.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Good grief.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the kind of fealty that Trump demands of those who join his administration. To that end, Pruitt fulfilled his charge.<\/p>\n<p>The rest of us paid the price.<\/p>\n<p>Scott Pruitt had no business caring for the nation&#8217;s environment. He exhibited little interest in environmental protection. Instead, he demonstrated time and again a commitment to his own creature comfort.<\/p>\n<p>He worked for us, not for the man who selected him for the job.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott Pruitt is gone as head of the Environmental Protection Agency. The myriad ethical scandals overtook him. I&#8217;ve already commented on that. With this post, though, I want to offer a brief look at the sickening letter of resignation that Pruitt sent to Donald J. Trump. So help me, Pruitt didn&#8217;t understand something about the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30774\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Pruitt shows sickening fealty to POTUS<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[4],"tags":[1607,6733],"class_list":["post-30774","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","tag-epa","tag-scott-pruitt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30774","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=30774"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30774\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30775,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30774\/revisions\/30775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}