Posted on 02/20/2021 8:56:21 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
WASHINGTON - Add Mother Nature to the pile of crises on President Joe Biden’s plate.
A month into the job and focused on the coronavirus, Biden is seeing his disaster management skills tested after winter storms plunged Texas, Oklahoma and neighboring states into an unusual deep freeze that left millions shivering in homes that lost heat and power, and in many homes, water.
The White House announced on Saturday that the president had declared a major disaster in Texas, and he has asked federal agencies to identify additional resources to address the suffering.
Biden came into office Jan. 20 promising to tackle a series of brewing crises, starting with the coronavirus pandemic and its ripple effects on the economy. He tacked on systemic racism and climate change as top priorities. And now he’s contending with storms that have not only imperiled Americans but also delayed the shipment and administration of millions of doses of coronavirus vaccines.
Biden, who offered himself during the campaign as the experienced and empathetic candidate the nation needed at this moment in time, is working on several fronts to address the situation — and to avoid repeating the mistakes of predecessors who got tripped up by inadequate or insensitive responses in times of disaster.
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What’s the saying again? Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine. from everything I’ve heard the people in charge of the utilities down there completely failed to be ready for something like this and it bit them in their ass.
It's becoming laughable that the media continues to characterize poor, doddering Joe as a man of ACTION, when the vast majority of the country can see his blatantly obvious impairment with its own eyes.
They kept Joe's condition under wraps during the campaign with careful editing -- tight shots of him at a podium with a five-second soundbite, not showing the six people in socially-distanced circles who were the audience at his "rallies."
Now that Joe's out in public in live shots and events like that incredibly awkward "town hall," even the most low-info Democrat must be saying, "Umm ... WTF?"
If Trump were president and had waited this long, the AP would be calling it “Trump’s Katrina.”
Hey Mr. *resident, you’re only about a week or 10 days too late.
Quick scan as of 1pm EST courtesy of https://www.weatherforyou.com/
Amarillo, 49
Dallas, 48
Austin, 54
Houston, 59
Galveston, 53
“The White House announced on Saturday that the president had declared a major disaster in Texas...”
They don’t call him SloJoe for nuttin’.
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
Patriots are reminded that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate environmental and energy issues. So Biden is arguably rescuing Texas from another government-manufactured crisis, unconstitutionally expanding the already unconstitutionally big federal government’s powers by doing so.
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
”From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added].” —United States v. Butler, 1936.
Note that so-called “federal” disaster relief funding for Texas is arguably Texas State revenues stolen from Texas by means of unconstitutional federal taxes, taxes that Congress cannot justify under its constitutional Article I, Section 8-limited powers.
And since the corrupt, Democratic-controlled Congress probably has no intention of impeaching and removing Biden from office for overreaching the fed’s constitutionally limited powers, probably most of Congress need to lose their jobs under Section 3 of the 14th Amendment.
"14th Amendment, Section 3: No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or elector of President and Vice President, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or under any State, who, having previously taken an oath, as a member of Congress, or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any State legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same [emphasis added], or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability."
can we get aid every time it snows in my state, Wisconsin.
LOL, the Big Freeze of 2021 is officially over. It's 52 degrees in North Texas, and that's where the temps will be for the next week, up into the 60s.
By the time Jen Psaki circled back to the White House Press Corps, voila the freeze was over.
However, the press (and Cruz haters on FR) remains focused on Cruz's dog, Snowflake.
Abbott had requested a disaster declaration last Sunday and Biden had declared it. I would assume this just ups the ante and makes Texas eligible for even more federal disaster relief.
Good thing they hadn't seceded yet I guess.
I think this will get rid of secession talk, not that is was really that serious at all.
No sign of Fedgov thank God.
Meanwhile HEB is all over it trying to feed Texas with 1500 trucks on the road today.
Sniff sniff smells like Ass Press💩.
Biden has just declared the attack on Pearl Harbor a disaster. He said though it was just the Japanese norms so things were ok.
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