The Booty-Chain Blues
Our Transportation Secretary isn't much up to the job.
by Scott McKay
October 16, 2021, 12:08 AM
There’s an iconic scene from the movie Braveheart in which King Edward Longshanks, the declining tyrant who serves as the villain of the show, returns from warring in France to find his kingdom at threat from William Wallace’s Scottish rebels. The Scots have sacked the city of York and sent the severed head of the garrison commander home in a bucket.
And Longshanks’ foppish son, who was put in charge of the Scottish problem, is awfully nervous about the accounting his father’s return brings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NAErBJlDNLc&ab_channel=DaroslawToorekIt’s hard not to recall the scene when examining the worsening situation of our national supply chain, in which hundreds of thousands of shipping containers are sitting idle on ships anchored off California ports and in warehouses and distribution facilities while shelves at stores — and worse, at groceries and supermarkets — begin to empty.
And Thursday, what was inevitable became reality when Republicans on Capitol Hill began pointing the finger at America’s version of Prince Edward, Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.
Buttigieg is a rather queer choice for Transportation Secretary. Not just because he’s a member of the LGBTQ community, and obnoxiously so. Buttigieg ran for president in 2020 not so much on the strength of his accomplishments, of which there were none; he was the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, a college town of 100,000 people which exists more or less to service the University of Notre Dame and largely runs itself except for its peculiarly elevated murder rate during his time in office. He ran on the fact that he is openly, and obnoxiously, gay — the central precept of his campaign being that Christians objecting to his lifestyle were bad at religion while he is not.
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