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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He will fail. He’s a deviant punk and a political fruad.
I believe there was a second cargo ship
> He’ll fail miserably as always. <
Absolutely. But then the mainstream media will praise Buttigieg as some sort structural engineering genius. And at least half of America will believe it.
🙁
Buttplug is a failure.
Simone said that Buttigieg so fouled up the supply chain when he was AWOL during the west coast port of Los Angeles backlog that the shipping companies were forced to rethink their backup plans and secondary routes to keep the supply chain running.
It's because of that foul-up that the industry is better equipped to react to the closure of the Baltimore port today, and Simone credits Buttigieg's massive failure then that forced the shipping industry into the better position they're in today.
Talk about a back-handed compliment!
-PJ
He hasn’t handled anything to date, but he is gay, so nothing negative will ever be said about him & will stay there until Biden is defeated.
“Did you get a load of that putz Baltimore mayor?”
The bridge catastrophe is a metaphor for the manure lagoon that is Baltimore itself.
Our dog would be more useful.
There seems to be better response than East Palestine Ohio when it comes to compassionate public statements of concern, but don’t his responsibilities entail more than that? Plus, what is going on anyway? Black Swan or dumb turkey, I’d like to know?
Pete’s extensive experience dealing with the problems that the Port Of South Bend has faced in the past will no doubt serve him well in dealing with this crisis. I wonder what bar Popeye goes to when the his ship arrives there.
He’s an anal astronaut...as it were.
Petey Butt-Boy has a “portfolio”?
Don’t stress him, that will sour his milk...
He knows absolutely nothing about transportation.
Yeah, he’ll go on TV and tell his heroic war stories.
Be nice, he is a nursing mother.
That means he’s actually going to have to do some real work.
For a change.
Buttplug faces his biggest testes yet!? 🤔
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