I’m new, and know I'm supposed to talk up the good stuff, like Michael Brune and Bill McKibben and the Millions in Marches that have been #resisting. And I do. But... Scott Pruitt?
Is there a more carnival-barker-looking, rat-faced con man anywhere to be found? He looks like a pickpocket that's been caught -- a lot -- slinking around the periphery of a public market. This guy has the carriage and the mien of a guy who couldn't even pass muster as a bad used-car salesman. He looks like his name should be Lefty, or Fast Eddie, or Fast something. Or something the Snitch. Or just Pockets.
Pruitt resists freedom of information requests, shamelessly evaded and grossly contradicted himself during questioning in Congress, and is a sock-puppet for the fossil fuel industry. He scampered around his confirmation hearings with the guilty, furtive glances and demeanor of a man who doesn't want anyone to look into his briefcase or his soul -- for fear of being jailed immediately for what is revealed.
This guy is emblematic of this administration's favored dark, black-hearted enabler trampling on the public good for his own and his destructive special-interested financiers' own best interests.
He is the poster boy of Trump's *decidedly insider* royal flush of compromised wealth and influence peddlers that define his cabinet picks — from Mnuchin, Sessions, failed Puzder, Tillerson, to DeVos. Dark-hearted, venal opportunists engorging themselves fully at every chance, willing to screw the little guy, willing to screw the honest guy, willing to eat their own young posthaste al dente in their race toward self-empowerment. Immoral, venal opportunists *we* will have to watch like hawks. Insatiable crooks and scam artists that *we* as citizens must never take our eyes off. We’ll now have to block each and every separate elitist-serving, greedy overreach, every short-sighted, self-serving power play, every unconstitutional ploy, each and every dark-hearted and Democracy-threatening malfeasance.