Pete Buttigieg's tenure as Secretary of Transportation was supposed to to be a comfortable sinecure where he could use his affable personality and charisma to tour the talk shows for the benefit of the Biden administration and his future political career.
Unfortunately, he has done nothing through a very tumultuous few years where his unwillingness do do anything or challenge potential future campaign donors the industries that he is supposed to regulate, hence the Southwest Airline and Palestine, Ohio cluster f$#@s.
Now it looks like his incompetence and indifference looks to be making him politically toxic.
It could not happen to a more deserving McKinsey & Company little piece of sh#@:
When Pete Buttigieg became Transportation secretary at the start of the Biden administration, some Democrats said it would be a perfect platform for his political prospects if not in 2024, then 2028.
Buttigieg could crisscross the country, appearing before crowds in key states while elevating his name recognition, resume and overall brand.
Instead, the job of Transportation secretary has been a set of compounding problems for Buttigieg, 41, who has been seen as one of the Democratic Party’s brightest stars.
Buttigieg has been blasted for taking too long to travel to East Palestine, Ohio, the site of a train derailment that has created serious environmental and health concerns for the community.
In January, he bore the brunt of criticism over a disastrous holiday travel season for Southwest Airlines, which resulted in thousands of people being stranded. And that same month, he was criticized over problems with the FAA, which had to ground flights for two hours for the first time in more than 20 years.
“I don’t think his story was supposed to go this way,” said one Democratic strategist. “I think he took the job thinking there wouldn’t be a lot of risk surrounding the role. I don’t think he understood how political this job would be and how he’d be a punching bag.”
Much like his stint as Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, where he spent his time sucking up to business interests and covering up for corrupt cops who brutalized the minority community.
It was all photo ops with real estate developers and firing reformer police chiefs.
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GOP opponents have suggested that Buttigieg got his job because of his high political profile and that he didn’t deserve it.
“Pete Buttigieg couldn’t organize a one-car funeral,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) wrote on Twitter at the time. “He was never remotely qualified for this role.”
F$#@ me, I agree with insurrectionist Talibaptist Tom Cotton.
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The attacks on Buttigieg haven’t just come from conservatives.
Progressives, who had taken a dim view of Buttigieg during the 2020 primary and were critical of his background as a McKinsey consultant when he was nominated for the post, have also suggested he and his department are too close to powerful transportation interests.
You can take the Buttigieg out of McKinsey & Company, but can't take the McKinsey & Company out of the Buttigieg.
Buttigieg has done a marvelous job of promoting himself on the public state, but he has done nothing else, and now that it is time to do something, he finds himself outmatched.
This is not, as the linked article posits in its headline, a "Nightmare", this is an inevitable reckoning.
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