Biden Finally Shows Up — Just in Time to Watch DeSantis Do His Job

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By Jeff Childers

Even though he’s only Governor of one state, Ron DeSantis is single-handedly keeping the nation afloat. The evidence appeared in three separate stories this week. First, yesterday Politico ran a story headlined, “DeSantis again skips meeting with Biden after hurricane hits state.” The sub-headlined added, “Sen. Rick Scott, who is up for reelection in November, toured recovery efforts with Biden instead.”

Complaining like an old man asked to use the couch for a few days while his armchair gets deep cleaned, Joe Biden grumbled his way off Rehobeth Beach and visited storm-ravaged areas of the Carolinas and Florida yesterday.

DeSantis snubbed Biden, not to score political points off the aging vegetable, or because Biden is a quadriplegic lame duck, but because Governor DeSantis is busy. Florida’s Governor lacks time for coddling old codgers. Bless him, former Governor (now Senator) Rick Scott volunteered to steer slow-walking Biden around for a couple hours so that DeSantis could keep working.

Joe Biden — who is not busy — wasted a week since Helene tore through Florida’s panhandle before visiting the Sunshine State. There is only one reason Biden came at all, and that was the same reason that FEMA surged 5,000 relief workers and activated its volunteer network yesterday.

That reason was Governor DeSantis. Politico:

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Follow this simple logic. Operation Blue Ridge, in which storm-damaged Florida began surging disaster relief to North Carolina and Tennessee since nobody else was doing it created irresistible political pressure on the Biden Administration to stop sandbagging and activate federal its relief programs.

The political pressure did not come from any fear of political embarrassment. In many ways, Biden’s brain has traveled far into outer space and is now beyond earthly embarrassment. No, Operation Blue Ridge was politically undigestible because it would have strengthened DeSantis. (It would also have highlighted President Trump who, like Florida’s Governor, stepped into the post-hurricane leadership vacuum.)

It’s a good news-bad news situation. Now that FEMA has occupied the territory, assistance from other states and from independent volunteers must follow FEMA’s federal rules. That’s the pro/con of getting the feds involved. Once they are in, they’re all the way in, and they brook no competition.

In any case, on balance, it was good news for disaster victims. FEMA’s resources are orders of magnitude greater than what Florida can provide. It would not have happened, or it would have happened much more slowly, had Governor DeSantis not made Joe Biden look feeble and slow.

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Biden way too busy handing on bags of cash to Ukraine then to be bothered with Florida and North Carolina