Scott Pruitt
Posted: Fri Jul 06, 2018 12:50 pm
Pruitt resigned as EPA head on July 5, 2018, at approximately 3:30 PM EDT, Washington, DC; or, at least, that's when word of it hit the news cycle.Jupiter Sets at Dawn wrote: Thu Jul 05, 2018 1:43 pm Scott Pruitt... Born May 9, 1968 at 12:14 PM in Danville, KY from Birth Certificate.
By simple partile transits, Pluto hit his natal Mercury-Saturn (Pluto square Saturn was 07'), Saturn octiled his Sun 28'. Mars crossed his Descendant 28', and Mercury his Ascendant 01'; both squared his Venus, 10' & 36'. Venus aspected his Moon-Neptune.
Natally, the man who became the definition of entitlement and milking the tax-payer while undercutting everything it was his job to protect, is an Aries-Virgo - which sounds merciless and abusive to me - with Venus square his Ascendant closely and Saturn widely in the upper foreground. And he liked his skin moisturizer!
As Frank Bruni wrote of the imperial Aries yesterday in New York Times, under the headline, "The Moist Mystery of Scott Pruitt's Resignation":
Gauche and greedy and dirty to the core, Scott Pruitt had no business being in what we still euphemistically call public service, and he was an embarrassment even in the context of the Trump administration, which is saying something. Still, his resignation on Thursday stunned me.
Why quit when you’ve already endured all the mortification that he has? Why not crawl, in your reduced and pitiable form, to the finish line and at least get points for devotion?
It’s not as if Pruitt is saving himself from exposure as a fun-size Trump-in-training motivated solely by his own glorification and pampering. At this point his true colors are vivid and indelible, and came out somewhere on the timeline between the construction of a $43,000 soundproof booth for his most important calls and his insistence that his security detail drive him from Ritz-Carlton to Ritz-Carlton on the hunt for his favorite lotion.
He wasn’t an admirable administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, but he was a moist one. Was that not lubrication enough for the long haul? ...
Pruitt served an important function in this White House. I do hope that we gave him proper credit for that. It fell to him to embody the entire Trump ethos — grab what you can, exploit your insider status, lift nepotism to an art form and never fly coach — in one high-ranking official.
And he took this on with an unblushing readiness that, viewed from a certain angle, was impressive in the extreme. A lesser grifter wouldn’t have floated the idea of a $100,000-a-month charter aircraft membership so that he could use private jets for government business. Pruitt did.
A lesser grifter wouldn’t have spent $1,560 of the taxpayers’ money on a dozen pens from a fancy Washington jewelry store. Pruitt did.
It was as if he was on a mission. Obviously, he couldn’t be the first member of the Trump cabinet to behave like a petty and petulant monarch. Nor could he be the only one. But he could stud his regal ambitions and festoon his kingly narrative with wholly original details. ...
His naughtiness spanned several countries and continents. It was global. There was the lavish trip to Morocco, a country with dubious relevance to the E.P.A., that a lobbyist helped arrange. There was travel to Italy at a cost of at least $120,000. It’s not clear how much work he got done, but his tours of the Vatican were multiple and splendid.
Scott Pruitt’s agenda of self-aggrandizement was so ambitious that I really did wonder if he was inoculated from punishment, just as he was immune from shame. I was wrong. It turns out that while the Trump administration has interred many cherished principles and traditions that we thought were keepers, karma isn’t among them. Perhaps someday soon it will come for the president as well.