By JOHN KANELIS / johnkanelis_92@hotmail.com
President Biden’s campaign pledge to be “president for all Americans, not just those who voted” for him sprang to mind as he made a major disaster declaration for Texas.
Why is that a big — or even a medium deal? It’s because his predecessor at times politicized these decisions, taking aim at officials in states that didn’t vote for him in the 2016 election; the California wildfire disaster comes immediately to mind.
Biden approves major disaster declaration for Texas: FEMA (msn.com)
President Biden has told the Federal Emergency Management Agency to pull out all the stops to help Texas recover from the monstrous winter blast that knocked power out for millions of Texans and continues to cause major water-quality problems for thousands of us.
It’s interesting, too, that the White House has been working closely and feverishly with Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, a Republican who was one of those who refused to recognize initially that Joe Biden, a card-carrying Democrat, was really and truly elected president in 2020.
None of that matters one damn bit … not to Gov. Abbott now or to the president.
Presidents do govern the entire country and must answer to all Americans. They also must set aside partisan differences when Americans are suffering.
As the saying goes: We live in the United States of America.
Kind of like Trump helped out Cuomo with a medical ship and PPE’s. He also send a great deal of support to California to help Newsom. He offered help in major cities that were having violent looting and burning but was turned down. Those Democrat mayors would rather have their cities looted and burned than get help from Trump. Trump offered help to the DC mayor. She declined with a resounding hell no. What a turn around by her once Trump was gone.