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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's succession planning. They cant put all their eggs in the Kamala Harris basket. She didn't fare well at all in the last primary.  I'm a swing voter who currently identifies as republican, and I prefer to get to know my options. Pete seems to spend a lot of time in the public, after his eternal parental leave anyway. [/quote]

4 weeks of parental leave is “eternal”? Europeans are given 4 weeks of [i]vacation[/i] let alone doing something as important as parenting. What motivates people like you to be cheerleaders for corporations to make us their slaves? Isn’t life for living and spending time with family and not just working at a job?[/quote]

Four weeks? Someone's got amnesia. The man was gone for 3 months while the ports backed up and even worse he didn't appoint an Acting Secretary because he knew it would look bad to have someone else serving in the role longer than he'd actually been appointed.

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCXfR2H5cfU[/youtube][/quote]

You are wrong. Your video doesn’t mention the length of Buttigieg‘s leave.

Buttigieg was on leave for 4 weeks. Here is my source (Fortune):

[i]U.S. transportation secretary Pete Buttigieg came back to work last week, [b]after taking four weeks off[/b] to be with his newly adopted twin babies, Penelope Rose and Joseph August. This was a major news story and political talking point for many days.[/i]

https://fortune.com/2021/10/20/paid-leave-parenting-pete-buttigieg-tucker-carlson/amp/

This is why it is a national security issue to fight against misinformation.[/quote]

Oh my god, give it a rest. The administration says he was 'taking four weeks off' but in reality he was gone for 3 months. His children were prematurely born in AUGUST. They were in the ICU from that time until until winter when the second twin was released from the hospital in November and Pete was not paying attention at all to the crisis at the ports.

The fact that they acted like he was working at all while checking on a surrogate and then hospitalized babies is a total lie. Would you paying attention to your job when your premies are born in a pandemic, unvaccinated, hospitalized out of state, and in an ICU to boot?

No.[/quote]

Thank you to the PP for a reality check.  Look, Pete is way over publicized.  It has zero to do with his job performance.  [/quote]

Personally I think we're still suffering repercussions because of his job performance or lack thereof. Look I'm glad that he's great at being a talking head on TV and supporting whatever policy Biden is rolling with at the time but that is not his job. His job is to lead the DOT. In 2021 he didn't appear before Congress even once post-confirmation to testify on behalf of the department and secure funding. The Infrastructure Bill passed WITHOUT HIM because he never showed up to lobby.

Now we're in an infant formula crisis were two babies just the same age as his twins have died from lack of formula. As a Secretary paying attention in 2021 he could have headed this off by realizing that he had the power to import products from Canada. Instead we imported zero formula. None. Now here we are.[/quote]
The formula shortage has exactly nothing to do with transportation...[/quote]

According to an Executive Order signed by Biden in February 2021 it does. Of course if you're gone from work from July - November 2021...maybe you don't have time to sit in on random EO committees.

[b]On February 24, 2021, the President signed E.O. 14017, directing a whole-of-government approach to assessing vulnerabilities in, and strengthening the resilience of, critical supply chains. The Task Force will be led by the Secretaries of Commerce, Transportation, and Agriculture and will focus on areas where a mismatch....and address supply chain vulnerabilities...[/b]

I'd say infant formula and the ingredients to manufacture them are supply chain vulnerabilities.[/quote]
And you don't suppose that the reason that Transportation, Agriculture, and Commerce were all included was due to the expectation that all three of these agencies are responsible for relevant aspects of supply chain? For formula, it's a Commerce and potentially an Agriculture issue. There isn't enough formula...it's not a matter of not being able to move it around fast enough.

I'm sorry, but this is just a bizarre criticism to lobby against a parent who is actually dependent on infant formula to keep his kids alive.[/quote]

I think all three work together and when one is missing and no Acting in his or her place - things don't get done. Period. Even now its not DOT running Operation Fly Formula. I guess they ran out of planes.

Look I don't care - just like I think the people who said 'Pete's moving to Virginia and going to be the next Governor' were hilariously wrong, I think his fanbase are way over the mark here. He got the job he has but he has no experience in the field or pushing that department's advancement, he's better at being a TV personality period. [/quote]

The military is flying the formula.
That’s not DOT.[/quote]

...that's the point.[/quote]

Yes. That’s what the military should be doing. It’s shouldn’t be DOT.[/quote]

The military delivers missiles. Not infant formula...I mean come on.[/quote]
I don't understand. Do you think the DOT has a fleet of aircraft for transporting things?[/quote]

Considering its the Department of Transportation and it is over the sub-agency of the FAA which maintains a fleet of Critical Event Response/Transportation just for that purpose. YES. My god.[/quote]

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