Earlier today, Peter Doocy once again absolutely owned the press briefing room and left Karine Jean-Pierre scrambling for words --though, on second thought, that last part doesn't seem to be too difficult.

Doocy asked Karine Jean-Pierre if Biden has confidence in Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg. When she obviously answered, "yes," Doocy followed it up with the question on everyone's mind: "Why?"

Oh, man. My favorite part is when she says, "You've seen the secretary on TV." That's right, I forgot we are all supposed to implicitly trust any talking head that appears on the screen. My mistake.

Buttigieg is taking heat for a recent series of transportation disasters. This morning, all commercial flights were grounded until 9 AM ET to restore the Notice to Air Missions system. This system relays critical safety information to air personnel, like closed runways and equipment outages. It stopped processing updated information for an unknown reason.

Karine Jean-Pierre tweeted there is no evidence it was a cyber attack.

Whether a cyber attack or not, it seems the FAA may be suffering from some internal incompetence. I know, I know, UNHEARD of in a government institution. The organization's 2023 budget appropriations focus includes "racial equity," "inclusion," "income inequality," and a number of other meaningless wokeisms. Who needs a safe flight when you have equity!

But wait, there's more! Yesterday, an Amtrak train from Virginia got stuck in South Carolina and turned a 17-hour ride into 37 hours. 37. Hours.

It got so bad, passengers began calling the police to say they were being held hostage, which prompted the conductor to announce that he was not, in fact, taking anyone hostage.

Passengers reported they were not allowed to leave the train for any reason and that meals eventually stopped being served. The train was reportedly delayed by a derailed CSX freight train in South Carolina.

Not sure what's going on, but the state of transportation in America seems a tad rocky. Maybe Mayor Pete's still on super-extended paternity leave. Who can blame him, really? All that chest feeding must be hard work.