Pat Pizzella, former partner in Jack Abramoff’s most notorious scheme, is now running the Labor Department. jonathanchait writes on the post-post-corruption era of the Republican Party
Acting Labor secretary Pat Pizzella Photo: Shutterstock On Thursday, President Trump announced that he would nominate labor lawyer Eugene Scalia, son of the former Supreme Court justice Antonin Scalia, to replace Alexander Acosta as Labor secretary. Until Scalia can be confirmed, Acosta’s deputy, Patrick Pizzella, will serve on an acting basis, working to turn the functions of the agency over to the business lobby.
Conservatives did not want to blame his ardent campaigning for a failed initiative to privatize Social Security, nor to concede that Bush’s tax cuts and deregulation had failed to yield the promised prosperity. Conservatism never fails, Rick Perlstein archly observed at the time; it is only failed. And so, to insulate their ideology from any blame, they instead cast Bush as a heretic. It was his alleged failure to uphold conservative principles that did him in.
It is almost impossible to overstate how much weight conservatives placed on corruption as their diagnosis of failure. This conviction led straight to their Obama-era posture as a “reformed” party of pure fiscal conservatism. The solution was simple: If Republicans redoubled their commitment to anti-statist purity, they would at once renounce the temptations of spending and corruption.
Not only has Pizzella’s role in this episode failed to stop him from rising to the position of acting Labor Secretary, he is now known as a true defender of the Reaganite faith. “Pat will be great — he is a movement conservative,” Marc Short, Mike Pence’s chief of staff, told the New York Times.
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