Who’s up for a good Republican pouncing on this fine Saturday?
Politico has served up today’s GOP seizing, and it’s about Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg and the multiple problems that just coincidentally have arisen during his watch:
Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg finds himself in the midst of criticism for his handling of a spate of airline disruptions, and Republicans are eager to press their attackhttps://t.co/5WlbnRsB4l
— POLITICO (@politico) January 14, 2023
Something must look bad for Democrats because some in the media are making the story about Republicans again:
So, where exactly should "the buck stop" here? If not the Secretary of Transportation, who?
When the issue is Democrat incompetence, the story becomes Republican's noticing. https://t.co/fNe990hF7G
— Fusilli Spock (@awstar11) January 14, 2023
That’s the tried-and-true approach in the current state of “journalism.”
Out: Pounce
In: PressTake a serious look at Pete's illustrious performance since becoming Secretary. From supply chain and shortages, private flights, rail crises, airline meltdowns – and his uncanny ability to be around to handle.
— Sandy 〽️ (@RightGlockMom) January 14, 2023
At least they avoided “Republicans thrust,” which is how the Washington Post reported the Right’s reaction to a floated idea to ban gas stoves.
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Pete Buttigieg’s charmed tenure as President Joe Biden’s Transportation secretary has turned messier.
In his first two years in the usually backwater Cabinet post, Buttigieg has reaped no shortage of political benefits, from hopscotching around battleground states handing out infrastructure checks to making hundreds of hits on late-night television and local news.
But lately he’s been seeing the downsides of running a sprawling department as a rising Democratic Party star. That was never more true than this week when a Federal Aviation Administration computer meltdown forced a 106-minute nationwide shutdown of domestic air traffic, delaying thousands of flights.
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And this time, the criticism could prove more challenging — unlike past GOP attacks on Buttigieg for his use of paternity leave, DOT’s allegedly “woke” climate policies, last year’s threatened rail strike and the tortured state of the post-pandemic U.S. supply chain.
Meanwhile, as Republicans pounce, the Democrats slough:
That’s enough pouncing and sloughing for today!
What has he done successfully? Infrastructure? Trains?
Airlines? Stolen baggage by cabinet members? #PeteBaggagecheck— Mikey Adams (@MikeyAdams420) January 14, 2023
We've all failed Pete. We must do better for Pete.
— pragmatometer (@pragmatometer) January 14, 2023
Buttigieg cannot fail, we can only fail him.
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Related:
Pete Buttigieg reminds us after the FAA mess that ‘glitches and complications happen all the time’
Here’s a great visual depiction of the public’s faith in Pete Buttigieg during transportation crises
Pete Buttigieg now looking into ‘root causes’ of FAA system outage (here are some predictions…)
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