Juiceless

Watching news coverage this morning, you'd think things were hunky-dory everywhere but New York.

The Canadian government is blaming the outage on a lightning strike - on a Lake Erie-area power plant, in an area that experienced no lightning yesterday.

From the "Anything to Take a Swipe at the President" Department - On the "Today" show, Katie Couric and Lance Earnest looked a little faded by the heat, sitting on the street in captain's chairs, Couric's hair drawn back in the tight, pony-tailed 'do that screams "didn't have time to do make-up properly".

But that didn't stop her intrinsic bias.

While Couric was talking with Campbell Brown, the topic turned to the Federal response to the regional blackout. Brown noted the President's comments on the blackout, and Couric closed the interview: "Some might accuse the President of being asleep at the switch, so to speak". She paused as if waiting for a laugh that never came.

So.

The President, who is not an electrical engineer but rather the head of state, was "asleep at the switch" for failing to...anticipate? Prevent? Solve while in progress? To do something about an infrastructural and engineering flub that took place over the course of three minutes, among a hundred separate control stations and power plants over millions of square miles, apparently.

I guess the President was too busy outrunning speeding bullets.