by Jon Gabriel
In the movie “Office Space,” business consultant Bob Slydell asked a useless middle manager, “What would you say … you do here?”
With Southwest Airlines canceling 16,000 flights over the holidays, it’s time to pose that question to Pete Buttigieg.
After dropping out midway through the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, Buttigieg was rewarded with one of the easiest gigs in the Biden administration. Seriously, how many transportation scandals hit the headlines? By its nature, transportation pretty much runs itself.
Or it did, until Mayor Pete took over.
Broken supply chains, strikes. Where was Pete?
Shortly after arriving to his 58,000-strong department, supply chain issues snarled freight traffic, damaging businesses, frustrating consumers and fueling inflation. Container ships were bobbing for weeks off the left coast, unable to deposit their stores in the backed-up ports.
The maritime problems have eased a bit, but supply chains remain shaky due to geopolitical tensions, a shortage of truck drivers and limited freight rail capacity. Two years in, and shipments are still getting delayed.
The former mayor of South Bend, Ind., focused on other issues instead, such as ridding America of racist bridges. Before that, he took two months paternity leave.
Throughout Secretary Buttigieg’s tenure, railroads had been unable to reach an agreement with the dozen labor unions representing their workers. By summer 2022, Joe Biden jumped in to create a Presidential Emergency Board to forge a compromise.
Since Buttigieg was busy vacationing in Portugal, Labor Secretary Marty Walsh stepped in to avert a rail strike in September. Congress averted another strike threat in December but neither side was satisfied with the compromise.
That means labor-management relations might hamper rail freight again.
Southwest melts down, Buttigieg writes a letter
Nearly all Americans faced another transportation nightmare beginning in 2021 when fuel prices soared and remain high today. Last month, the average price of a gallon of gas was $3.324. That’s down from the summer highs, but still 37% higher than when Biden entered office.
On that issue, at least, Buttigieg took action: He told cash-strapped Americans to buy electric cars.
Last July 4 weekend, airlines canceled more than 2,200 flights and delayed another 25,000. Democrats on Capitol Hill demanded reforms, but the Transportation Secretary did nothing.
That brings us to the last two weeks, when Southwest Airlines canceled thousands of flights, stranding thousands of travelers while their luggage was who knows where. Four days into the mess, Buttigieg wrote a letter. Four days later, Southwest fixed the issue on its own.
“Pete, what would you say you do here?”
This gig won’t ‘pad his resume for President’
Despite positive media treatment, Democrats are increasingly pointing out the unbearable lightness of Buttigieg.
This pinhead just like the rest of Bidens Cabinet nothing but whole bunch of idiots trying to solve a problem and making it worst not one in Bidens Cabinet is worth it and all belong in a mental ward
He couldnt fix the potholes in his city he was full unqualified for his position, which is why he got it.
Since when did Democrats worry about competence? Buttplug checks the “gay” box and “first gay president” is qualification enough, just as “first pedo president” was sufficient for idiot Biden. Democrats love to fill positions, take the pay but do nothing to benefit the nation or people. Is there a single competent member of idiot Biden’s gang of thieves?
Isn’t it odd how the massive airline problems didn’t exist before the idiot Biden regime grabbed power? How will the idiots that caused the problems SOLVE the problems? They never do.
Hakeem Jeffries. They didn’t see Barack Obama coming, either.
Jeffries is the dollar store Obama, what a whacko nut job.
A complete scumbag
“They didn’t see Barack Obama coming, either.”
Everyone saw him coming on all the news media suddenly announced the coming of a cardboard cutout mansuring candidate named Barry.
As for Trump, he’s an actual success. The fools just underestimated the power of American democracy.
All anyone has to do to see is pay attention.
Hakeem Jeffries. Election denier.
I thought you thought election denying was bad. Is it or isn’t it? Jefferies is an election denier, not to mention a far left American-hating radical (which I’m sure you love).
He should realize, “first black Muslim president” box has already been checked.
greg and people like greg think election denying is fine and promoted democracy when democrats and the left claim illegitimate election results. By contrast, when the right challenges an election it is denialism and those efforts thwart democracy and attempt to overturn an election.
The left opposed presidential elections from 2000, 2004, and 2016 and did so during the joint sessions of congress to count electoral votes.
Biden selects the biggest screw ups North, South, East and West of the Pecos to fill his cabinet
And speaking of dodging a crisis, Fox News is showing before and after images of El Paso, which is being cleaned up and turned into the Potemkin village on the border for idiot Biden and the corrupt liberal media to look at and continue to deny the total disaster idiot Biden has created.
President Harris doing a fine job at rooting out the causes for illegal immigration.
Biden Praises Border Czar Kamala Harris in Dishonest and Gaffe-Laden Speech on the Border Crisis
Between both of them, there’s not a single thought. Two truly stupid, phony people.
Why are we so backward? High speed trains are racing across the world. But not in America
Simple answer grifters, theft and greenies.
Because high speed trains need to travel between high density populations and most of those high-density areas are run by corrupt democrats. Look at the tax dollars pissed away in California greggie..