Shawn Fleetwood writes for the Federalist about the Biden-Harris response to a major natural disaster.

Americans throughout several southeastern states are enduring catastrophic devastation caused by Hurricane Helene. So naturally, America’s lamebrain Democrat president and vice president are missing in action. …

… Yet, despite such widespread suffering among the people they were elected to serve, President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris — the latter of whom is running to be our next president — seem to have bigger things to worry about.

As my colleague Tristan Justice noted, Biden spent most of his weekend lounging around on Rehoboth Beach in Delaware. Meanwhile, Harris reportedly attended a campaign event in San Francisco on Saturday and a fundraiser in Los Angeles on Sunday afternoon. She concluded her weekend at a political rally in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Sunday night.

The White House has issued statements from both Democrats and a “fact-sheet” on what actions it’s supposedly taking to help local officials address the crises.

But beyond their truth-deprived base, those of us who’ve closely watched this dumpster fire of an administration for the past three and half years know better than to believe that Biden and Harris are actively managing the federal government’s Helene response. If anything, many Americans have accepted the unfortunate reality of major policy decisions being made by an unelected Democrat oligarchy.

Neither Biden nor Harris has the stamina or capability required to direct a government-wide disaster response. Both Democrats have demonstrated on multiple occasions they possess worse management skills than Dunder Mifflin’s Michael Scott. Does the 2021 Afghanistan withdrawal ring a bell for anyone?

Under this administration, the U.S. presidency has become a Potemkin village. Biden and Harris are trotted out to give big speeches and attend formal events with world leaders, but nobody with a lick of commonsense genuinely believes either one is really running the show. Think of them as the real-life version of the Wizard in “The Wizard of Oz.”