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2003-08-15) -- U.S. Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-NYArk, said today that the electrical power grid in America "suddenly became antiquated early last year, and George Bush hasn't done a thing about it." "When my husband was in office, the power grid was like new," said Sen. Clinton. "But right after he left, the grid got all rusty and decayed...like some form of mechanical progeria. But President Bush was so distracted by the war on Iraq that he has tragically inconvenienced 50 million people." The Senator said she will introduce a bill today nationalizing the electricity industry, and putting it under the...

NEW YORK - The first thing that crossed my mind when the lights went out on the 22nd floor of my Times Square Hotel last Thursday afternoon was, "Klaatu warned us." OK, it wasn't the first thing, but it makes for a more interesting lead sentence. Sci-fi film fans will recognize the name Klaatu from the 1951 film "The Day the Earth Stood Still." The alien and his robot, Gort, land their flying saucer in Washington in the middle of the Cold War to warn earthlings that we had better get along or suffer consequences of galactic proportions. Now isn't...

Iraqis are used to blaming coalition forces for their daily troubles but yesterday they lashed out at a host of new enemies after sabotage attacks on oil and water pipelines. As repairs continued even hardened adherents to conspiracy theories were forced to admit that US and British forces were not, this time, at fault. Instead resentful Iraqis lashed out at al-Qa'eda, Iranian militants and Saddam loyalists whom they suspect of the sabotage. "We're used to seeing Americans getting shot at but now we are being targeted," said Ahmed Abdehamid, 21, outside his house in Cairo Street, a plush neighbourhood where...

GRID LOCKOn Thursday, as states in the Northeast reeled from power outages, Democratic National Committee chairman Terry McAuliffe got on the horn to current New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson, who in a previous life, served as key Clinton apologist and as Energy Secretary. "They saw this as a political anvil that could be dropped on the Repubicans' head," says a DNC staffer. "With Richardson's background, he could go out there and really highlight the energy crisis created by Republicans." The only problem is, the Clinton cabal is probably more responsible for the blackout mess than anyone. According to a career...

Hillary Clinton's crime record James Henry BrookesNews.Com Monday 18 August 2003 Hillary Clinton's viciously dishonest attack on Bush regarding the recent power failure is another demonstration of her brutal contempt for the truth. Whichever way one looks at her record, no honest person cannot help but be appalled. The woman who would be America's first female president would make Lady Macbeth blush with shame. This is the same women whose ruthless lunge for the Senate helped create a crime wave. This is a fact, not fantasy concocted by some Clinton-hater. As part of her campaign she worked to undermine popular...

In the words of Bill O"reilly (to Senator Hillary Clinton) "Shut Up!" Hillary Clinton has once again come out blasting President George W. Bush, this time over something the President could have done to avoid the blackout last week. Maybe I'm mistaken, but hasn't Hillary Clinton been a Senator longer than Geirge W. Bush has been President? Isn't the U.S. Senate one of three seperate but co-equal branches of our government? And as a member of th Senate doesn't Hillary Clinton share just as much responsibility as does President Bush? Of course, there's nothing any politician can do to prevent...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Computer network and security experts said on Thursday there was no evidence the power outage in the northeastern United States and Canada was related to the Blaster worm that began spreading on Monday. "I have no thought that (the outage) is Blaster related," said Alan Paller, research director at the SANS Institute in Bethesda, Maryland. "The Internet is built not to worry about that," he said. "If you blow up any big chunk, it is designed to work." "There is no information available at this time to indicate that the power outages in the Northeast...

GOP's King: Hillary's Attack on Bush Could Have Caused Riots Congressman Peter King, R-N.Y., fired back at Sen. Hillary Clinton today, saying that her repeated attacks on President Bush as New York City slipped into darkness during last night's blackout could have provoked civil unrest. In an interview with nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity, Rep. King called Sen. Clinton's attempts to blame Bush for the blackout during several appearances on radio and TV "absolutely disgraceful." He then warned, "There could have been some incident last night, and then you attach that to what she's saying and you get out...

Blackout Blame Game Began Within Minutes; Responsibility Lies With Environmentalist Wackos August 15, 2003 Within minutes of the power outage, Senator Hillary Clinton and other Democrats were on the air blaming it on the Bush administration. They even tried to link it to Schwarzenegger because his movies were once seen by somebody who worked at Enron. Whenever anything goes wrong, you can count on Democrats to use it to pull us apart rather than bring us together. I told a caller that I didn't plan to politicize this issue at all, but I’m not going to sit here while they...

WASHINGTON — Though the power returned within a day to many areas darkened by the historical blackout of 2003 (search), politicians are unlikely to forget the energy issue during the 2004 election. Less than 24 hours after a power failure set off a cascading effect that left 50 million Northeastern U.S. residents in the dark, at least two presidential candidates accused the Bush administration of failing in its energy policy. "The unfortunate events on the East Coast, parts of the Midwest and in Canada yesterday are further evidence that the Bush administration is inexorably tied to Persian Gulf oil and...

<p>Clinton-era Energy Secretary Bill Richardson was quick to pour the footer for the foundation of blame for The Great Blackout of 2003.</p> <p>"(W)e're the world's greatest superpower, but we have a Third World electricity grid," said Mr. Richardson, now the governor of New Mexico. "We have antiquated transmission lines. We have an overloaded system that has not had any new investments and we don't have mandatory reliability standards on utilities, which caused this problem."</p>

I was surfing the TV channels when I watched a second of O'Reilly, and I heard a former Energy Sec. blame the SOUTHeastern Electric companies for the current Northeastern Blackouts. Something like that turns my stomach. It must a Yankee/Northeastern genetic trait to blame the Southerners in some way for their problems Well my reply to these arrogant Yankees is; unlike you Yankees, we Southerners in Georgia understand that if you need more power, YOU BUILD MORE POWERPLANTS!!!! We Georgians have no energy problems.

A day after the still-mysterious record blackout that descended upon New York, Canada and the Midwest, about the only thing electricity experts could say for sure today was this: It could happen again. But what, exactly, happened? It will take days or even weeks before engineers determine the cause - or more likely, series of causes, said Michehl R. Gent, president of the North American Electric Reliability Council. An early sign of trouble Thursday was a wild swing in power in the loop surrounding Lake Erie, Gent said in a conference call from the Princeton headquarters of the nonprofit industry...

The Terror Question No Signs of Deliberate Attack in Blackout, But Possibility Not Ruled Out Aug. 15— Despite official assurances to the contrary, could terrorists have exploited a vulnerable power grid to cause Thursday's massive blackout? The cause of the failure remains a mystery, as power was gradually returning from the largest-ever blackout in the nation's history, affecting some 50 million people in areas from Michigan to New York. And while there is no indication the power grid was sabotaged, some experts caution it is too soon to rule out any possible explanation — including cyber-terror. "Anybody who says that...

Tens of millions Americans got a wakeup call Thursday: cheap, accessible energy isn't something to take for granted. Unfortunately, many of America's most powerful environmental organizations do take energy for granted, and they are trying to set America on a course that, if unchecked, could make the future very dark indeed. These environmentalist groups hate energy. They don't put it so starkly, but a review of their policies can lead to no other conclusion. Leading environmental organizations, for example, make it very, very difficult to build new power plants and oil refineries. No major oil refineries have been built in...

Democrats Target Bush on Blackout, Bash Trend Toward Larger Power Grids The Associated Press CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa Aug. 15 — The Democratic presidential contenders blamed President Bush Friday for the massive blackout in the northeastern United States, saying the White House's refusal to invest in the nation's infrastructure caused the problem. "It underscores a blackout in this administration on energy policies," Massachusetts Sen. John Kerry said. "They have ignored the investment needs of our infrastructure in favor of a tax cut for the wealthy." Northeastern cities from New York City across to Toledo, Ohio, were gripped by a massive blackout...

I devote a great deal of time to bashing certain conservatives for their support of the Iraq war, so now in celebration of A Cry for Help's becoming A Fair and Balanced Cry for Help, I'm going to balance things out a bit by taking aim at the Left. Widespread power outages are also being reported in Detroit, Cleveland and Toledo, as well as in Toronto, Ottawa and throughout Ontario (The Agonist) The Northeast USA (and Ontario, Canada) went dark the other day when a power station in New York state gave up the ghost; knocking out a significant chunk...

Sean and Pete King really destroyed Hildebeast. Her attack on Bush last night could really hurt her. Woo-hoo! Justice would be nice for a change!!

King is interviewing that expert in electricity managemnet, Gray Davis, and Hillary Clinton (by phone). She basically said that this country needs to put a priority on upgrading the power distribution backbone and the Bush administration had un-done all of the good work that had gone on in the Clinton administration under Bill Richardson. Unbelievable...blaming Bush for this crisis. She has no shame.