{"id":15217,"date":"2018-04-09T14:17:22","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15217"},"modified":"2018-04-09T21:42:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T02:42:57","slug":"is-pruitt-really-a-republican","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/09\/is-pruitt-really-a-republican\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Pruitt Really A Republican?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/rachel-maddow-show\/the-myth-scott-pruitts-competence-the-epa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">notes<\/a> that Trump&#8217;s EPA Administrator is not only pursuing corrupt practices, but he&#8217;s also not effective at <em>destroying environment regulations<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The hype surrounding the EPA chief is starting to unravel.\u00a0<em>The New Republic<\/em>\u2019s Emily Atkin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newrepublic.com\/article\/147776\/effective-scott-pruitt-really\" rel=\"nofollow\">explained<\/a>the other day that Pruitt has been prolific in attacking environmental protections, \u201cbut so far, Pruitt\u2019s biggest achievement is that he\u00a0<em>appears<\/em>\u00a0successful.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The piece went on to note that \u201cat least ten of Pruitt\u2019s intended regulatory rollbacks, in fact, are on hold due to lawsuits,\u201d and given the EPA\u2019s recent track record in the courts, those lawsuits against Pruitt\u2019s moves stand a decent chance of success.<\/p>\n<p><em>Politico<\/em>\u2019s Michael Grunwald\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/magazine\/story\/2018\/04\/07\/scott-pruitt-epa-accomplishments-rollback-217834\" rel=\"nofollow\">added<\/a>\u00a0over the weekend that despite the Trump administration\u2019s regressive efforts, Pruitt \u201chas not yet killed or rolled back any significant regulations that were in place when President Donald Trump took office. While Pruitt is often hailed (or attacked) as Trump\u2019s most effective (or destructive) deregulatory warrior, the recent spotlight on his ethics \u2026 has arguably overshadowed his lack of regulatory rollbacks during his first 15 months in Washington.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that the damage he&#8217;s done to the agency is real and substantial. But given his rampant abuse of power as well as his amazing ineffectuality, one has to wonder:<\/p>\n<p>Is Pruitt a mole, a Democrat under deep cover?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Steve Benen notes that Trump&#8217;s EPA Administrator is not only pursuing corrupt practices, but he&#8217;s also not effective at destroying environment regulations: The hype surrounding the EPA chief is starting to unravel.\u00a0The New Republic\u2019s Emily Atkin\u00a0explainedthe other day that Pruitt has been prolific in attacking environmental protections, \u201cbut so far, \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/09\/is-pruitt-really-a-republican\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15217"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15231,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions\/15231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}