Who is in charge in the White House after Hurricane Helene?

As communities across the Southeast reel from Hurricane Helene, America faces a troubling question: Who exactly is in charge in the White House?

At least 100 people have been confirmed dead across the southeast, and the number is expected to rise with around 600 still missing.

About two million homes and businesses still had no power on Monday.

Florida was able to issue evacuation notices in advance, but Appalachian towns were blindsided by floods and landslides that decimated entire communities and washed out roads, leaving residents stranded and cut off from emergency responders.

Who makes the decisions in Washington? Who can Americans rely on for leadership after a record-breaking natural disaster?

Certainly not President Biden: He delivered lethargic, canned remarks on Monday in which he claimed (again!) that he “had a cold” and then snapped at a reporter who asked why he was holed up in his vacation home in Delaware and not there Washington during the worst of the storm.

“It’s called a telephone,” Biden barked.

And of course, his mental decline clearly continues, even though he is hardly ever in the public spotlight.

Last Wednesday in midtown Manhattan, he welcomed world leaders “to Washington.” On Thursday, he called Kamala Harris his “boss” and GOP veep candidate Sen. JD Vance “Secretary Vance of Ohio.”

When asked Sunday about Israel’s “strikes in Yemen,” he told reporters that he was a strong supporter of “collective bargaining” to avert an attack Dock workers East Coast port strike.

Biden isn’t quite there, so who Is be in charge?

His chief of staff or a larger group of White House staff?

First lady Jill Biden, who chaired “Joe’s” first Cabinet meeting in 11 months on Friday?

Veep Kamala Harris, who should The president, who will take over as president “if” Biden is incapacitated, has instead sought to distance herself from the Biden-Harris administration, lest voters remember that she isn’t a big “change” after all. -candidate.

Yes, she took a break from the campaign on Monday to return to Washington, acted as if she had been briefed by FEMA and even made some empty remarks.

But it all seems routine, just like the photo her campaign posted of her posing “deep in thought” on Air Force Two, albeit with headphones that looked like they were unplugged, and in which she Made “notes” on a blank piece of paper.

Don’t expect Harris to take responsibility now: she doesn’t want to real Responsibility (even worse) or accountability.

It is Bidens The task is to take the blame for any disaster relief failures.

The thousands of Americans now living in poverty and homelessness and grieving the loss of friends, family and neighbors deserve competent, visible and trustworthy leadership.

It’s a shame that the White House can’t offer something like this until January 20th at the earliest.