The president blames an old electrical system. However, Hillary blames Bush, while former Energy Secretary Bill Richardson blames Bill. (warning: NewsMax link -- they're evil).

Meanwhile, Pataki blames Canada (yes, the South Park song is stuck in my head, too) while Chretien blames the US.

My girlfriend, who worked in regional government for the first decade of her adult life, said that government is like sausage -- as good as it may be most of the time, you don't want to know how its made.

UPDATE: That's what I get for reading NewsMax. They took Bill Richardson's statement horribly out of context. If you read the transcript, you'll see that Governor Richardson clearly didn't mean that the Clinton administration ignored improvements to the electrical grid but that congress did.