Moving my chips over to Sanders.

https://twitter.com/TPM/status/1007217222769692672

"Sanders has told friends that she will leave the Trump administration by the end of the year"

I'm keeping pruitt in front of her. They keep gunning for him...

They?

You, know, They. As in "That's what They want you to think".

Many dems and even some republicans keep voicing Opposition to him, and the press has been pretty relentlessly on him as well.

Sorry to be unclear who/what I meant.

A lot of reports surfacing that Pruitt will be gone by the end of next week.

They just need to settle on a nominee who hates the environment even more than Pruitt. Who, by the way wants to bring back asbestos. His boss (for the moment) agrees.

The best people.

Wilbur Ross has timed his scandal hitting the news quite well.

Bet Ross is not the only one with a convoluted self-serving set of business arrangements like that. I can think of another so-called billionaire who will have an equally fascinating financial history to be revealed.

Or Mattis?

Pruitt seems to be hanging in their.Guess massive corrouption is OK if a Fellow Republican does it.....

TV news is talking Kelly this morning. WH says it's Fake News, so there's probably something to it.

OK, maybe it's going to be easier to say who is staying, rather than who will be going. Because all the WH staff look to be teetering over the edge of the abyss.

After the apparent chaos of the early part of the Trump Administration where it seemed that senior members were leaving on a weekly basis, we seem to have reached a situation where there is a stable (or at least consistent) team assembled around the President.

I'm too biased to be able to say whether this means that we have a well-oiled and smoothly operating machine at the top of government or whether President Trump has cobbled together a motley group who are so desperate to remain in position and/or so bought into the ethos of the Trump Presidency that they are eager to serve or whether this group are simply compliant enough not to give President Trump too many reasons to fire them.

Pruitt's great for us.... his whole team leaks like a fork trying to scoop up consomme. The latest pettiness with one of his former aides blowing the whistle on the calendar-doctoring is pure gold.


https://edition.cnn.com/2018/07/02/p...dar/index.html

Scott Pruitt out

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-44733072

:thumbsup::thumbsup::thumbsup:

So less than 48 hours after that consistency we have a major individual leaving. Who's next?

Surprised Pruitt lasted that long. But the real question is which performing monkey is he going to be replaced with. Or is Mafia Don going to run the EPA by himself as well. Or just not bother with replacing him at all (that option actually has odds!)

Memo to self: Upon taking power and deciding to appoint an agency head with the intention of destroying that agency, remember not to appoint one who is so ridiculously venal as to draw unwanted attention to what he's doing.

ETA: I wonder if Pruitt actually know about it yet.

Tomorrow's not going to be a very productive day for the EPA. Everyone is going to show up and all the office supplies will be gone.

Pruitt's cone of silence should be relocated to the Smithsonian, for posterity.

Is it also a Faraday cage? They should relocate it to the Oval Office and tell Trump it's a secure place for him to Tweet from.

The place would probably run better if he didn't.

Certainly better than it did with Pruitt in charge.

Trump put out a tweet. How much more warning can anyone working for him expect?

It isn't like Cabinet level appointees or heads of agencies deserve any more consideration than that.

They could just get a regular cage for that. Trump wouldn't know any different, and they already have models to work from at the government summer camps.

Indeed! They should put him in one, lock it, and throw the key in the Gulf of Mexico.

Oh, Pruitt knew about it; he's already issued his accusations of a witch hunt (or variations thereof). Could've been ghosted by Trump's ghostwriters.

And on the good news front... the number two will take over, and he was merely a lobbyist for the coal industry; I'm sure things will improve (for members of certain golf clubs in W. Virginia).

Not just any lobbyist for the coal industry but a lobbyist for the coal company Murray Energy of Last Week Tonight fame. To be succinct:

Andrew Wheeler as the head of EPA is the equivalent of a tobacco lobbyist heading up HHS.

With Trump, it's swamp creatures all the way down.

OK, Pruitt gone. Who's next?

Trump.

Dreamer.

Anyhow, we need to get rid of Pence first, then take the House, THEN get rid of Trump. President Pelosi.

Maybe when he gets alone w/ Putin, he'll ask for political asylum.

What are the odds of Donny getting out of the room without giving up the sanctions on that half trillion dollar drilling/exploration project that Exxon and Tillerson (and Vlad) want?
Not sure I'd walk into the room.
Just sayin' :D

He can (and does) promise anything. Without a document it means nothing.

In Trump's case even with a document it doesn't mean much.

Well... what if Vlad pops one of those "Escape from LA" dissolving explosive pellets in Donny's neck?

Sorry... got lost [s]wishing[/s] imagining there for a minute. :D

Art of the Deal. He deals the cards, and the other players take them and play the actual game.

I think we might be getting close to Trump's end game. If he resigns, it's going to happen very quickly after. If there's a quid pro quo pay for play with Cohen with money going to Trump for access, or the Russians let the pee video out, he might very quickly resign. There won't be long drawn out impeachment hearings. It's going to be something that just pops up and in a few days he's an ex-president secluded in one of his private gold clubs.

I can't picture Trump voluntarily leaving the White House by resigning, being defeated, or even after his two terms are up.

I can see him being driven from office by so many resignations that he can no longer function. He will blame Democrats or the fake news or something. I don't expect nor do I care if he takes responsibility. History will judge him without regard to his protestations.

I can't. He's made a point of selecting people who can't function when they are there, and seems to be filtering out the ones who show signs that they might be able to.

So it wouldn't amount to much of a change.

His staff have already proved themselves willing to sell their souls for their jobs. If any of them had a scintilla of self-respect or honor, they lost it long before now.

http://thehill.com/homenews/administ...ess-conference

And it looks like we have our next winner.

Even though Kelly gave them the green light, it's revealing that no-one with anything to lose chose to do so. Perhaps they knew that he meant "wouldn't" instead of "would" :rolleyes:

If he's gone, that means he's free to run for President!

ANother reason why a lot of people have changed their minds about private gun ownership since Trump took office...

Which really is a stupid reason. If the military was in support of his actions, then no amount of home weaponry will match their might, and if they aren't, then the civilian's guns aren't needed to deal with him.

Either way, buying guns for political reasons is totally silly.