[Physicist]

It is not the duty or the responsibility of the President to take care of power outages.

Nor did I say it was. But what we have here is a power grid with many points at which a single failure will bring the entire system down. Don't you think that that's a National Security issue? You talk as if there were nobody out there looking to exploit our vulnerabilities...and this is an awfully big one.

[Cheesel]

Yeah, it is but the power companies are privately owned, are they not? Let them deal with it or the states. Let's not make another case for the feds to step in again and regulate more business. According to the Constituion, I believe he federal gov't's job is to print money, develop relationships with other countries, secure the borders and raise an army and not much else.