Biden teams transportation deficit of common sense

 Daily Mail:

The Biden administration apparently knows what went wrong on Virginia's I-95 on Tuesday, after an entirely predictable winter storm trapped hundreds of drivers in frigid temperatures for 24+ hours.

They didn't pour enough money on it!

Who knew dollars melt ice?

Even as commuters sat shivering in their vehicles, Kamala Harris took to Twitter.

The gaffe-prone Vice President never wastes an opportunity to make a bad situation even worse for the Biden-Harris administration.

The tweet, even by Kamala standards, was incredibly tone-deaf.

'Because of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, America is moving again. That's what infrastructure is all about: getting people moving.'

The explanation for this poorly timed tweet is anyone's guess.

I'm betting a naive social media intern sent it out without realizing the optics nightmare that would ensue.

If that is the case, and if the rumors about the Vice President's treatment of her staff are true, then good luck to the poor soul who hit send on that whopper.

It is conceivable that Kamala and her team didn't know about the turmoil on I-95.

After all, Harris has been tasked with solving the border crisis, advancing voting rights, and filming YouTube videos about the moon's craters with paid child actors.

Her schedule is jam-packed.

But what makes no sense whatsoever is the fact that Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg decided to retweet the Vice President's empty message.
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Mayor Pete's next tweets must have been even more reassuring to starving folks, going on a full day without food, frantically tearing apart their cars in search of a snack.

'This year, we're using the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to improve transportation across the country... Now that we have the resources, I'm confident @USDOT will meet this moment.'

Though I'm pretty sure the problem in Virginia wasn't a lack of money.

It was a lack of competence.

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The problem on I-95 was not infrastructure unless they have some plan for heating the roads to melt the ice and snow.  They failed to predict an extreme weather event and warn people to take shelter before it got too bad.  There are plenty of lodging facilities along that route where people could have found shelter and food. 

The reaction to the weather event by Buttigieg and Harris was inane.

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