We were destined to have some transportation and logistics snafus coming out of the pandemic, but boy, there sure seem to have been a lot of them over the last two years, huh? The congestion at the ports, supply-chain issues, record gas prices, empty shelves, trucker shortages, all the flight issues last summer and the shortage of pilots, the narrowly averted freight-rail strike, the Southwest debacle, and now this.

No, not all of this is Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg’s fault. But whenever it hits the fan, he always seems to be in the wrong place at the wrong time — either on paternity leave or acting like a presidential candidate or flying on private jets.

Several online progressives absolutely loathe Buttigieg and are willing to dump a healthy share of the blame on him; what’s more, they’ll intermittently point out that he never had any particular qualifications for the job of transportation secretary. Maybe Buttigieg really is a relatively unaccomplished small-city major with some exceptional presentation skills, honed at McKinsey Consulting.