Today, we're going to talk about the crisis in Texas and the surprise bills that Texans

are now facing.

Ted Cruz is less than ideal response, and my interview with the host of Fox LA's The Issue

is, Alex Michelson, where we talk about whether the situation will have an impact on Ted Cruz's

future and whether polarization means that politicians can basically do anything without

political consequences.

I'm Brian Tyler Cohen and you're listening to No Lie.

So let's start off with the crisis in Texas, an unprecedented arctic blast has sent

temperatures in the entire center of the country plummeting, which Texas was the least

prepared for because the state's power grid failed.

It left Texans with no heat, water pipes, froze and eventually burst, homes were destroyed,

people were dying from hypothermia.

So in a nutshell, what happened is that Texas is the only state in the country with a deregulated

power grid because Republicans revel in deregulation.

And so they failed to winterize their equipment, which regulation would have presumably mandated

and as a result of the equipment froze.

And so far, the state's Republican leaders have blamed the electric reliability council

of Texas or aircott.

I'm sure you've heard people talking about the Democrats and the Green New Deal for their

own failure to keep Texans safe.

Here's the thing.

Texas is a Republican state.

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