Posted on 03/28/2024 4:19:19 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
When a train derailed in East Palestine, Ohio, last year, Pete Buttigieg drew criticism for not showing up right away.
In responding to the collapse of the Francis Scott Key Bridge — a far different crisis, this time at the center of his portfolio — he’s not making that mistake again.
On the day the bridge collapsed, Buttigieg had planned a trip to Wyoming and Montana — what would have amounted to his 47th and 48th states visited as Transportation secretary — to tour infrastructure projects. But before leaving from Dulles International Airport on Tuesday, his work cell phone buzzed not long after the bridge collapsed at 1:30 a.m. He spent time on the phone with Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, Baltimore Mayor Brandon Scott and White House chief of staff Jeff Zients, and the state’s congressional delegation.
By 5 a.m., it was clear his trip out west would be off. He briefed President Joe Biden by phone, and was on the ground meeting with first responders later that day.
“It’s definitely one of the most striking and extreme emergency situations that we’ve faced,” Buttigieg told POLITICO in an interview on Wednesday, not long after briefing Biden in the Oval Office, and then later, the press. “We’ve obviously encountered issues with aviation safety, with rail safety. But to have a major maritime incident, and a major bridge incident, all wrapped up into one is definitely calling on all of the resources that we have at the department. And I’m giving it everything I’ve got.”
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Those chest feeding sessions have prepared him well.
Which test is it? Famous Female Caribbeaner Feral Judges in American History?
“Test” my cherry red patootie.
Bureaucrats are never held accountable for anything.
He’ll fail miserably as always. And he’ll be too arrogant to know it.
The test is this: Find every way possible to prolong the disaster in order to use taxpayer dollars for building the Democrats party and enriching The Party’s donor class.
Baltimore votes Democrat.
he has zip to do except read reports from the monitor. a typical biden appointee....gay or black or tran...who know zero about their position.
Well goodie for him.
LOL! This is a guy who couldn’t fill the potholes in South Bend! Total Didn’t Earn It diversity hire.
Nahhh... Getting breast milk out of a dude was probably his biggest test.
Did you get a load of that putz Baltimore mayor? Complaining about whitey rather than addressing the problems Baltimore is going to be up to its eyeballs in. The governor is probably as bad. I’m sure the entirety of Baltimore government and county as well is DEI. But Buttiboy will save the day.
Stupid people don’t know they’re stupid, buttplug is a classic example.
As some wit pointed out during the East Palestine brouhaha, The Buttster is a Secretary of Transportation so bad that we know who he is.
The Mayor of Baltimore will sit back and PARTY
Joe Biden calls him Buttjuice in public. Very approriate.
bingo gringo!
He’ll fail, as usual.
The best thing that pecker necker can do to help the situation is get out of the way.
I DON’T KNOW WHAT HE KNOWS ABOUT BRIDGES. MOST OF HIS TIME HAS BEEN SPENT INVESTIGATING DARK TUNNELS WHERE THE SUN DON’T SHINE.
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