WTF is this!?!? We’re in the middle of a crisis, w/ people freezing to death, caused by 1/3 of our nuke, coal, and gas plants failing in the cold, and Gov Abbott has time to go on Fox News to lie and trash wind and solar power!?!? We need competent leadership, not this bullshit. https://twitter.com/ndrew_lawrence/status/1361866553998909442

Look, Abbott’s office likely didn’t make decisions that caused the grid failure. But it’s a solid bet that he hasn’t paid attention to it before now, appointed feckless regulators, and did a solid for industry by pushing back on proposals that would cost them $. And now this BS.

Even for a dem, it’s a disappointing end for a gov who was supposed to be the adult in the room after Rick Perry. That we know he knows better than Jade Helm and this “wind power caused the blackout” BS makes it so much worse. He’s smarter than this. But chooses to act otherwise.

In the end, Abbott had shown no industry or courage for anything but his own presidential ambitions. No lie had been too small to coddle conspiracy minded Fox News viewers. We’ve essentially been without a real governor for five years. We deserve better. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/17/texas-power-outage-analysis/

Alongside COVID, the blackout has turned Trump-era Republican ideology-based-reality into a governance crisis. Here’s @DanCrenshawTX fixating on <5% power loss from wind & glossing over the 30% loss from nuked/gas/coal. All to “own the libs.” This BS is literally killing people. https://twitter.com/repdancrenshaw/status/1361792727097212929

This from @DanCrenshawTX is completely wrong (all so he can attack renewables): our extreme cold plan relied on coal/gas/nukes, but plants weren’t winterized and failed spectacularly: 30% of their load went offline. If we follow his diagnosis we’ll have another crisis next storm. https://twitter.com/repdancrenshaw/status/1361792737138335746