{"id":375619,"date":"2021-12-02T23:05:49","date_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/is-anyone-buying-this-ridiculous-kamala-and-pete-show\/"},"modified":"2021-12-02T23:05:49","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T20:05:49","slug":"is-anyone-buying-this-ridiculous-kamala-and-pete-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/is-anyone-buying-this-ridiculous-kamala-and-pete-show\/","title":{"rendered":"#Is anyone buying this ridiculous Kamala and Pete show?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Is anyone buying this ridiculous Kamala and Pete show?<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/kyle-smith3.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Kyle Smith\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/kyle-smith3.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/kyle-smith3.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Did you see that hug between Wonder Boy President in Waiting Pete Buttigieg and Back Off Little Man I\u2019m Boss Lady of This House Kamala Harris? I\u2019ve seen leprous porcupines get closer together for a hug. Harris and Buttigieg could have danced like that at a Catholic high school in 1957 and the chaperone would have said, \u201cI\u2019ll allow it. If anything, there\u2019s room for two Holy Spirits in between.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>H and B managed to hug while looking like they wished they were in two different time zones, just as their political fortunes are going in completely different directions: Buttigieg is maybe even a little ahead of schedule in the ruthless mega-map to the presidency he probably devised when he was drinking chocolate milk in kindergarten eight or nine years ago, while Harris is looking like the first sitting vice president who will ever cackle her way to political oblivion.<\/p>\n<p>What was the purpose of this little awkward-as-small-town-community-theater scene? Well, Madame Vice and the Transportation Kid were out to display to the public the fact that they totally aren\u2019t fighting even though every other day a leak <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ears in the Swamptown Gazette about how Democrats are scrambling to offload her somewhere before she becomes their next presidential nominee. Don\u2019t be surprised if she is sent on an urgent diplomatic fact-finding mission to, say, Jupiter. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/kamala-pete-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Kamala Harris greets Pete Buttigieg before boarding a plane on Thursday.\" class=\"wp-image-20351491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/kamala-pete-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/kamala-pete-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/kamala-pete-1.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Kamala Harris greets Pete Buttigieg before boarding a plane on Thursday.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Peter Velz\/<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Meanwhile, Team Buttigieg is playing him up as the logical heir to the Biden throne. What if, they ask, you had a presidential candidate who was actually a bright, smooth talker, with many coats of slick Harvard management consultant polish instead of a habit of breaking down into deranged laughter whenever he gets a tough question? Wouldn\u2019t First Gay President be almost as exciting as having a woman in the top job? America may be ready for a woman president, but not this extremely odd woman in the dung-colored pantsuits.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AFP_9TU7KL.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Vice President Kamala Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.\" class=\"wp-image-20349262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AFP_9TU7KL.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AFP_9TU7KL.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AFP_9TU7KL.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Vice President Kamala Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg tour the electric vehicle operations at Charlotte Area Transit Systems bus garage.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Logan Cyrus\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The purpose of Harris and Buttigieg\u2019s meet-up was to sell an infrastructure bill. Which, erm, has already passed. Several weeks ago. Remember how President Biden actually managed to sign a spending plan without calling in a phalanx of home health aides? The administration was expecting an infrastructure bounce in the polls and didn\u2019t get one, so now they\u2019re trying again, by reminding people of their supposed legislative mega-victory from \u2026 early last month. It\u2019s touching, really. <\/p>\n<p>These people are as hopeful as a failing comic who repeats the punchline nobody laughed at the first time. <\/p>\n<p>As (even) the New York Times reported this week, the infrastructure bill is doomed to wet-firecracker status because the problem with our infrastructure is not a lack of spending. The problem lies with two core Democratic Party constituencies \u2014 crazy-eyed environmentalist jihadis and cement-in-the-gears public interest lawyers \u2014 who keep dragging out the approval process for anyone who wants to build any public project more ambitious than a dog run.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd even with the new infusion of money,\u201d reports the Times, \u201canalysts say it will be tough to ramp up infrastructure progress as swiftly as envisioned in the current timetable.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large is-style-default\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AFP_9TU7KP.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Vice President Kamala Harris and Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg.\" class=\"wp-image-20349273\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AFP_9TU7KP.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AFP_9TU7KP.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/12\/AFP_9TU7KP.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Could Pete Buttigieg be President Biden\u2019s logical successor?<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Logan Cyrus\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p> <em>Now <\/em>they tell us. <\/p>\n<p>A lousy 20-mile rail transit line in Hawaii that was supposed to be finished 15 years ago and cost $4 billion is now scheduled to be finished 10 years from now and cost three times that, though the actual final price tag will of course be even more. You can make it rain money on every budding infrastructure proposal in the land, but if you actually cared about building stuff rather than signing bills in grandiose ceremonies, you\u2019d be wiser to do something that doesn\u2019t cost anything: rip up all of those environmental-impact-review regulations. <\/p>\n<p>So Harris and Buttigieg are selling two things that aren\u2019t happening: their fake allyship, and the phony American infrastructure revolution. <\/p>\n<p>As Biden noted, we may indeed be 13th best in the world in infrastructure. But, by golly, we\u2019re certainly number one in obstructionist lawyers.\n                        <\/p><\/div>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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I\u2019ve seen leprous porcupines get closer together for a hug. 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