Seymour Flops
Diamond Member
I'll start with Pete Buttigeig. I encourage other posters to pick a name and analyze their performance on this thread.
Here is what his own website says about his time as Secretary of Transportation:
Pete Buttigieg serves as the 19th Secretary of Transportation, having been sworn in on February 3, 2021.
His focus as Secretary is to deliver the world’s leading transportation system for the American people and economy. He has worked to achieve organizational excellence in the department’s operations, and to focus the department on five policy goals: safety, jobs, equity, climate, and innovation. In his first year at the Department, he prioritized supporting the development and passage of President Biden’s signature Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Since the law’s passage, Secretary Buttigieg and his team have focused on effectively delivering the investments provided by this legislation, enabling the most significant improvements in U.S. transportation infrastructure in over half a century.
First thing that strikes me is that these are goals, moreso than accomplishments. He uses phrases like "focus" "worked to achieve" "focus the department," 'prioritized," etc. What were the significant improvements he claims in the last sentence? This website does not provide examples of accomplishments.
He knows how to do that. In the third paragraph, he talks about accomplishments as Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, he says this:
Secretary Buttigieg previously served two terms as mayor of his hometown, South Bend, Indiana, where he worked across the aisle to transform the city’s future. Household income grew, poverty fell, and unemployment was cut in half.
Buttigieg lists being "The first openly gay person confirmed to serve in a president’s Cabinet" which is not true, since Richard Grenell served in Trump's cabinet as Acting DNI.
I would give Pete B.'s term in office a D- due to the chronic supply chain problems that he seemed to have no idea how to deal with, and the comical way his pushing of EV's backfired (no pun intended). I reserve the grade of F for those who made disasters out of their positions, and accomplished exactly the opposite of the position's responsibilities.
Here is what his own website says about his time as Secretary of Transportation:
Pete Buttigieg serves as the 19th Secretary of Transportation, having been sworn in on February 3, 2021.
His focus as Secretary is to deliver the world’s leading transportation system for the American people and economy. He has worked to achieve organizational excellence in the department’s operations, and to focus the department on five policy goals: safety, jobs, equity, climate, and innovation. In his first year at the Department, he prioritized supporting the development and passage of President Biden’s signature Bipartisan Infrastructure Law. Since the law’s passage, Secretary Buttigieg and his team have focused on effectively delivering the investments provided by this legislation, enabling the most significant improvements in U.S. transportation infrastructure in over half a century.
First thing that strikes me is that these are goals, moreso than accomplishments. He uses phrases like "focus" "worked to achieve" "focus the department," 'prioritized," etc. What were the significant improvements he claims in the last sentence? This website does not provide examples of accomplishments.
He knows how to do that. In the third paragraph, he talks about accomplishments as Mayor of South Bend, Indiana, he says this:
Secretary Buttigieg previously served two terms as mayor of his hometown, South Bend, Indiana, where he worked across the aisle to transform the city’s future. Household income grew, poverty fell, and unemployment was cut in half.
Buttigieg lists being "The first openly gay person confirmed to serve in a president’s Cabinet" which is not true, since Richard Grenell served in Trump's cabinet as Acting DNI.
I would give Pete B.'s term in office a D- due to the chronic supply chain problems that he seemed to have no idea how to deal with, and the comical way his pushing of EV's backfired (no pun intended). I reserve the grade of F for those who made disasters out of their positions, and accomplished exactly the opposite of the position's responsibilities.
