He was the Energy Secretary, wasn’t he?
This is insane.
“You can have your regulations when they have cold, very cold, dead hands!”
“The tree of libertarianism must from time to time be refreshed with the blood of the poors.”
If you look at that photo of Rick Perry and the corndog, and consider his relationship to Donnie, I believe you have all the information you need about Rick’s qualifications.* 
*Note the tongue engagement. I mean, FFS, who LICKS a corndog? 'Nuff said.
Ted Cruz found a way to deal with the power outages and water shortages in HIS HOME STATE of Texas.
https://twitter.com/softreeds/status/1362364758263951364?s=20
You can almost imagine the opponent’s commercials now if Cruz runs for POTUS in ‘24. Or better yet, if he’s just running for Senate again. Think Texans’ memory will extend three years?
Well, the Democrats’ memories will… and do. But the Republicans? Nah. Ted is just doing what they wish they could do.
Here’s another one of our prize Republicans-- the big enchilada himself, blaming Dems for the current energy crisis-- total bullshit.
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You’d think the deep misery of millions of Texans — never mind the global embarrassment of seeing the nation’s energy capital on its knees — would have forced Abbott to face up to the reality of the state he leads. But instead, he chose to play more games — political games. On Tuesday, he was on Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, blaming the energy grid’s collapse on frozen wind turbines.“This shows how the Green New Deal would be a deadly deal for the United States of America,” he said. “Our wind and our solar got shut down, and they were collectively more than 10 percent of our power grid, and that thrust Texas into a situation where it was lacking power on a statewide basis.”
As deceptive as a deadly patch of black ice.
This disaster has nothing to do with the Green New Deal. Wind makes up a tiny fraction of the state’s energy grid this time of year. The vast majority of power sources knocked off line were natural gas and coal, largely because those facilities weren’t properly weatherized.
The real problem, as Abbott knows, has to do with Texas’ loosely regulated grid and a system of energy delivery that tries to maximize profits and keep consumer prices cheap by failing to insure against a crisis like this one.
More on that:
Realization is sinking in though, as the same people on NextDoor who were whining about wind power on Monday are spending their Thursday insisting we don’t ‘politicize’ the situation.
I tend to avoid Nextdoor. For one thing, all the lost pets really distress me. For another thing, the questions are so STUPID. “Is anyone else’s power out?? Is my local HEB open today? Do you know what restaurants are open?” And everyone starts their own “thread.”
I’m spoiled by the organized, intelligent, civil discourse one finds here.
BWAHAHAHAHA!! 
No really!
I first became… aware of Limbaugh in 1983 or '84. He was quite likely doing his schtick before then.
The uncanniest Scumbag resemblance I’ve seen was the demagogue who rehearses his lines in a mirror in V for Vendetta but that was most likely intentional.
There has been much written in the past couple of days about how the Texas energy problems are due to Texas’ unique in-state power grid, the way it’s set up to maximize profits, is not answerable to the federal government, isn’t answerable apparently to anyone (which is why this is at least the third time they’ve had a power emergency due to a cold snap), and not due to wind power (apparently the wind turbines, like those in Antarctica and Scandinavia, are working fine, and not failing due to cold weather). But i haven’t seen much about this nugget about the Energy Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT):
Five members of ERCOT’s Board of directors don’t even live in Texas. The Chairman lives in Michigan and the vice Chair lives in California.
In the meantime, Tennessee hasn’t had any rolling blackouts:
You can see the effects of the rolling blackouts from space, using IR imaging
This is, I’m assuming, the same TVA that we (well, many of us) learned about in history class that was part jobs program/part infrastructure project/part socialism?
One thing I’m confused about is that apparently Biden has approved federal disaster aid for Texas. I thought that the governor was Republican and that the state had voted for Biden’s opponent in the last election? Also, Texas should have been raking their power grid so the current problems are kind of their fault.
At least Biden doesn’t have “lots of ocean” between DC and Texas to contend with.
BIG WATER. OCEAN WATER. NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THIS!
(Discourse says: “body seems unclear. Is this a complete sentence?”)
I’ll be fair about this - in my more idealistic moments, I would like to think there are liberal principles that I put first above convenience and personal safety.* So, if someone wants to sacrifice themselves rather than be subject to regulation or accept government assistance, I can kind of understand that. It’s sacrificing other people that’s the problem.
*in my more honest moments, I’m a coward.