It's time for Scott Pruitt to go

To be fair, it was never time for Scott Pruitt to come.

Scott Pruitt is the current "head" of the EPA, one of the worst of Trump's cabinet members (that's saying something), and one of the many trying to destroy his own agency. Pruitt is in a league of his own, however, for paranoia and corruption.

Keep in mind the list of Trump administration members who have quit or been fired for far less serious (but still serious) malfeasance.

David Shulkin - Veterans Administration
H.R. McMaster - National Security Adviser
Rex Tillerson - Secretary of State
Gary Cohn - Director of the National Economic Council and chief economic adviser
Tom Price - Secretary of Health and Human Services
Reince Priebus - WH Chief of Staff
Mike Flynn - National Security Adviser

This is just a partial list. And all left under a cloud.

So what's Scott Pruitt done?

Again, this is a partial list. 

Pruitt spent more than six months living in the townhouse of a fossil fuels lobbyist, getting complete run of a swanky townhouse for himself and guests for $50 a night — a fraction of the real value. And he didn’t even pay for the room when he was out of town.

The lobbyist who owned the townhouse had a client with a oil pipeline that needed EPA approval. Pruitt told the State Department the EPA had no issues — even though the pipeline had already generated the most damaging spill since BP’s Deepwater Horizon.

The townhouse wasn’t just a place where Pruitt could hobnob with lobbyists without it appearing on his calendar, it was also a place where lobbyists could host fundraisers for GOP congressmen. Pruitt won’t admit to being there … but he was there. That is on his calendar.

Pruitt gave enormous raises to his favorite aides — raises that violate federal law. He even gave out a raise as a favor to an EPA official who took time away from official duties to help Pruitt locate a cheap place to live.

Pruitt took his top aides on a four-day vacation to Morocco, during which Pruitt made a speech promoting fracking for natural gas. Neither the trip nor Pruitt’s speech had anything to do with the mission of the EPA.

Pruitt spent $120,000 on a single trip to Rome that included a private tour of the Vatican. More than $30,000 of that was flying around Pruitt’s private security detail. That’s on top of $36,000 Pruitt spent commandeering a military aircraft simply to take him to the New York airport to catch his Italy flight.

Pruitt had a sound-proof booth constructed in his office at a cost of $25,000 — even though there was already a sound-proof booth in the EPA building.

Pruitt was so convinced that someone was tapping his phone lines, that he frequently leaves his office and takes over the phone of another EPA staffer to throw whoever he believes is listening in off the scent. He has also had his office swept for listening devices. Twice. They found nothing.

Pruitt mandates that not only can no one bring a phone or other device to meetings, no one is allowed to take notes at meetings. Because that way, no one can prove what was said.

Link to Daily Kos. There are a bunch more.

People have been forced out of this Administration (again, rightly so) for far less.

GET RID OF PRUITT NOW

And serendipitously, it will stop this bastard from trashing the environment. Because he's a terrible asshole who is wholly owned by oil and gas interests.