About this episode
Let me start with Jennifer Granholm, no Pete Buttigieg, no Alejandro Mayorkas. It’s impossible to determine who has shown themselves to be more incompetent. The energy secretary (Granholm) who oversaw the closing down of most domestic pipelines and oil production during raging price increases, only to criticize OPEC when they wouldn’t lower their prices. Or the transportation secretary who insisted on staying out of the office on family leave, during the worst supply chain crisis of our time. Or the head of the Border Patrol, who is allowing illegal crossers to use their arrest warrant as identification to get free tickets on a plane (no proof of vax required) to mostly secret destinations.For the most part, the appointments to these cherry positions come either as a thank-you for loyalty, or a payoff for agreeing to not run against the President. It’s rare in this day, that a cabinet head is chosen for ever having accomplished anything in a certain area of government or business. While many of the choices have excellent academic resumes (which adds to the growing notion that today’s colleges are highly overrated), most have not distinguished themselves other than being good at sucking up to the guy who is making the appointment. It’s no co-incidence that Biden is polling at record low numbers. His demise has been aided and abetted by the choices he’s made to head these important positions. For Biden, the glaring deficiencies of his choices were on display early, when Biden tried to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan last April. Secretary of State Tony Blinken was caught totally off guard when he overestimated the ability of the Afghan military to defend their territory against the Taliban. On day one of the mission, 13 US servicemen were killed by a Taliban bomber and many more Afghani’s outside the gate of the airport in Kabul. The government leaders at the time scurried out of the country and it’s again under the control of the Taliban.Another glaring example of the Peter Principle, is National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan. He was Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s chief of staff at the time of the Benghazi attack; when she left government, he moved to the White House and was one of the several officials who met secretly with Iranian counterparts to pave the way for the nuke deal. And now he’s the yes-man national security adviser who didn’t question his boss’s folly when it came to fleeing Afghanistan and tying the military’s hands with rapid-drawdown demands that forced the abandonment of Bagram AFB. In addition, he’s mentioned in the Durham report in regard to having a suspected connection to debunked claims of collusion between
