{"id":270013,"date":"2018-04-05T15:50:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T19:50:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/admin.rushlimbaugh.com\/?p=270013"},"modified":"2018-04-06T16:04:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-06T20:04:47","slug":"just-hope-scott-pruitt-hangs-epa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushlimbaugh.com\/daily\/2018\/04\/05\/just-hope-scott-pruitt-hangs-epa\/","title":{"rendered":"I Just Hope Scott Pruitt Hangs in at EPA"},"content":{"rendered":"

RUSH: Have you noticed how every political gun the Democrats and the media have is all of a sudden focused on Todd Pruitt at the EPA<\/a>, the Environmental Protection Agency? You know, there\u2019s an old saying — and you military people will, of course, nod your heads at this. “When you\u2019re taking a lot of flak, you must be over the target.” Well, I think Scott Pruitt is over the target. Let me tell you what Scott Pruitt\u2019s doing. Scott Pruitt is himself unraveling a whole lot of regulations that Obama\u2019s EPA implemented.<\/p>\n

Now, the former administrator of the EPA, Gina somebody — can\u2019t remember her last name — Obama put her in office, and she is out there complaining about Pruitt because Pruitt is specifically unraveling things that she and she alone did. And she\u2019s complaining that administrators and bureaucrats can\u2019t just go in willy-nilly and strike out things they don\u2019t like. It\u2019s exactly what she did though.<\/p>\n

\"\"When she was chairman of the EPA she started writing regulations left and right without even the agreement of the whole agency. Not that she needed it, \u2019cause they were all like-minded leftists. But none of it had to go through Congress. None of it passed as legislation must. And so now Scott Pruitt, they\u2019re focusing on this guy, condos that he wants to buy, furniture he wanted to rent, how he travels privately, running around on jets. They are launching everything they\u2019ve got at this guy.<\/p>\n

The EPA is one of these federal bureaucracies that the left claims permanent ownership of. And these bureaucracies — they happen to be where the deep state — I love that term primary because the left hates it — but the bureaucracies are where the deep state lives. And these people have been writing punitive anti-capital, anti-liberty regulations for who knows how long, all predicated on a bunch of faulty premises, such as the United States is destroying the planet, such as the United States is destroying the world, such as the United States is the leading polluter of the world.<\/p>\n

None of these things are true, of course, but that\u2019s their worldview. And one thing that Pruitt\u2019s doing that\u2019s got them just hog-tied, he\u2019s relaxing all of these mileage restrictions that the left has placed on automobiles and engines and so forth. And he\u2019s basically just taking a knife and whacking things from the EPA that were implemented during the eight years of Obama.<\/p>\n

And he has become, outside of Trump, the single biggest target of the American left. Let\u2019s go to the audio sound bites. He was on Fox News last night, and he was being interview by Ed Henry. He said, “If you\u2019re committed to the Trump agenda, why do you go around the president and the White House and give pay raises to two staffers.”<\/p>\n

PRUITT: I did not. My staff did and I found out about that yesterday and I changed it.<\/p>\n

HENRY: Is somebody being fired for that?<\/p>\n

PRUITT: That should not have been done.<\/p>\n

HENRY: So who did it?<\/p>\n

PRUITT: There will be some accountability.<\/p>\n

HENRY: A career person or a political person?<\/p>\n

PRUITT: I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

HENRY: You don\u2019t know, you run the agency, you don\u2019t know who did it?<\/p>\n

PRUITt: I found out about this yesterday, and I corrected the action. So we are in the process of finding out how it took place and correcting it.<\/p>\n

HENRY: So hang on. Both of these staffers who got these large pay raises are friends of yours, I believe from Oklahoma, right?<\/p>\n

PRUITT: They are staffers here in the agency.<\/p>\n

HENRY: They\u2019re friends of yours?<\/p>\n

PRUITT: Well, they serve a very important person.<\/p>\n

HENRY: And you didn\u2019t know that they got these large pay raises?<\/p>\n

PRUITT: I did not know that they got the pay raises until yesterday.<\/p>\n