Scott Pruitt doesn’t look like a big partier. He got wild anyway, and quick.
A year-and-a-half ago, no one guessed that the mild mannered Oklahoma attorney general would be the one to get blackout drunk on petty power. But on Thursday, President Trump announced Pruitt’s resignation.
The Environmental Protection Agency administrator flew first class and private when he could, including a $40,000 flight to Morocco. Pruitt, when cruising down D.C. streets to get to his dinner reservations on time asked to use the emergency sirens of his motorcade. Pruitt put together a security team that rivaled Seal Team 6, costing the taxpayer a cool $3 million. Pruitt installed a $43,000 sound proof phone booth at the EPA.
Pruitt, in short, saw the possible perks of power and couldn’t resist their pull — or didn’t try to.
All of this is made more ridiculous by the fact that Pruitt knew he had a target on his back. His policies made him a pariah. It was obvious that the Left, including the press and the career bureaucrats inside his own administration, fantasized about his downfall. The EPA administrator didn’t care.
If the EPA administrator could have kept his own nose clean, he would still have a job. Now his own personal failures undermine his policy success. Turns out, character counts.
[Also read: Arnold Schwarzenegger: Scott Pruitt ‘will go down in history books’ as ‘the worst’ EPA chief ever]
