The Patriot Post® · The Ineptitude of the Bureaucracy

By K. Wesley Carroll

Whenever a business decides that another department is vital, it tends to search out candidates with previous experience or education in the requisite field in order to lend credibility to the position and guarantee success. Companies that have managed to sustain progress don’t fly headlong into these decisions lightly. They spend time and resources to vet their prospects, hoping to continue their longevity. However, when the governmental elites deem it necessary that an additional cadre of lackeys is required to relieve the “overwhelmed” members of our governing class, a bureaucracy is born — a grouping of feckless people who have gained ascendancy yet are accountable to no one.

Presidents used to be persons admired by the public — stately people who had achieved the ultimate success in life and were revered as true leaders and protectors of the weak. Men like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln stand out in history. Men who defended our belief in creating an independent nation against a tyrannical empire. Men who held this country together while in its infancy and during a bloody civil war.

Now, fast-forward, if you will, to the year 2021. The man who is “elected” as president is a lifelong politician. A man who has made his living as a professional grifter for some 50 years. A man who is clearly senile. He appears to spend his time napping and watching reruns of “Matlock” while enjoying ice cream cones. When his handlers see fit to prop him up behind a podium with his magic binder, he routinely is seen stammering through press conferences, all while, just off camera, his aides pray he doesn’t go off script and began reminiscing about childhood characters like “Corn Pop” and recalling when small children would rub his leg hairs at a public pool. Then to stress his point, he creepily leans into the microphone, often all while insincerely invoking God, to repeat his last few words — falsely portraying that he understands your pain and is just a blue-collar guy.

Mr. Biden, his administration, and their media mouthpieces at CNN and MSNBC consistently claim that with Trump gone, “the adults are back in charge.” Adults, however, typically own up to their mistakes — except in the case of a narcissist, which is who we now find ourselves in the company of. On August 16, 2020, then-candidate Biden tweeted: “Here’s my promise to you: If I’m elected president, I will always choose to unite rather than divide. I’ll take responsibility instead of blaming others. I’ll never forget that the job isn’t about me — it’s about you.” Apparently, in the last 22 months since he posted this, his declining brain has forgotten what responsibility looks like. Regardless of what recent disaster this administration has created, the fault consistently lies with someone else.

Inflation at a 40-year high? That’s transitory and not here to stay, said Biden’s inept treasury secretary, Janet Yellen. I’m old enough to remember when we were witness to some very similar circumstances in 2008 with a red-hot housing bubble.

Gas prices well over $4 a gallon? Well, that’s Putin’s price hike — not the fault of our president, who on day one canceled the Keystone XL pipeline by executive fiat; commanded his Interior Department to cancel oil and gas leases on federal lands, in turn dissuading oil companies from investing in new leases by strangling them in red tape; and tapped his energy secretary, the clueless Jennifer Granholm, to push the narrative for alternative transportation, all the while knowing that absolutely no infrastructure is in place, nor will it be for decades, to support the United States moving from fossil fuels to alternative energy.

Container ships deadlocked at our largest seaports? We’re blaming that one on COVID and not on our illustrious transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, who took two months paternity leave in the middle of the biggest supply chain crisis in history to spend with his “husband” and their adopted twins — and no one even missed him.

An open border to our south? Why, that’s merely two million people escaping deadly disease and looking to better their situations, claims our buffoonish secretary of homeland security, Alejandro Mayorkas, who’s turning a blind eye to the fact that none of these people have any intentions of even showing up for their ordered court dates, but will simply disappear into the country’s interior. Mayorkas fills his time vilifying his own Border Patrol agents who were wrongly accused of whipping illegal migrants with the reins of their horses.

Much of this foolishness can be tolerated in the short term, but the issue that shows just how useless our government departments are is the fact that our babies are going without proper nutrition due to a formula shortage. To put into perspective just how many babies are affected by this, according to The Federalist, “75% of U.S. parents and caregivers rely on baby formula to meet the nutritional needs of infants of up to 6 months of age.” Who can be blamed for this debacle? Welcome Dr. Robert Califf, the FDA commissioner and yet another Obama retread who testified before a House congressional panel last month, stating: “The FDA’s timeliness of interviewing the whistleblower and getting into the facility for a for-cause inspection were too slow. And some decisions in retrospect could have been more optimal.” Too slow and could have been more optimal? Would this answer have flown in a Fortune 500 company boardroom? Doubtful. My guess would be that Dr. Califf would be gathering the pictures from his desk and carrying his potted Ficus through the lobby on his way outside to the parking lot. But that would be in the real world. Not when a government body is involved. No sir.

Unless we clean house this November, we will remain faced with a reality much like a zookeeper’s dilemma — either clean the feces from the monkey’s cages or watch them start throwing it at each other. And, sadly, at us too.