The state’s epic power grid collapse left millions freezing. Sen. Ted Cruz’s Cancun get-away became a mistake when, yes, it got cold. Had William Travis, Jim Bowie and Davy Crockett behaved that way their contributions to Texas would not be called heroic.
But “mistake”?
A mistake is an honest, good-faith error, like reaching for ground coffee but somehow buying whole beans.
Gov. Greg Abbott blamed the nonexistent Green New Deal’s wind turbines, though they are functioning in arctic extremes. Not winterizing key fossil-fuel infrastructures invited repeating 2011’s experience. The go-it-alone approach insulated utility companies from additional expenses of federal oversight.
Brace for the next preventable disaster. Real-world implications of “profits over people.”
“No regulations” fails the Constitution’s “Contributing to the common welfare” yardstick.
A mistake votes for GOP governance. Gross recklessness allows an irresponsible political party, unable to learn from experience, to hold hostage important matters of public health and safety.
Barry Abraham Zavah, Alpine
