The Wapo’s David Broder is obviously still feeling the after affects of heavy indulgence on New Years Eve right?  Otherwise explain this:

“Most Americans got their first prolonged look at Janet Napolitano, the secretary of homeland security, last weekend. After a passenger on a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam ignited a concealed fuse as the plane approached Detroit for a landing, apparently intending to blow it up and kill all aboard, it fell to Napolitano to take charge of the federal response.

It came as no surprise to anyone who knows her that Napolitano handled the incident and its aftermath with aplomb. In the years I have known her, she has managed every challenge that has come her way with the same calm command that she showed in this instance. If there is anyone in the administration who embodies President Obama’s preference for quiet competence with “no drama,” it is Janet Napolitano.

I watched as she made the rounds of the morning interview programs on Sunday, laying out what she knew about the would-be terrorist and carefully refusing to speculate about the many matters that were still being investigated. She is being criticized for saying “the system worked,” but her part of the response system did work.

It must have been a frantic time for her. She was in San Francisco, far from her Washington office, and she must have had a sleepless night. But her eyes were bright, and her voice was calm. Everything appeared to be completely normal, except that her usual sense of humor was absent, as it should have been, given the circumstances.”

(rubbing eyes)….

Again, I don’t know Broder’s drinking habits, but he’s obviously off his rocker on this one.  Which part of Broder’s world did the “system work”?  Had it not been for an fortunate misfire of the device  on Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who was by the way not a subject of interest prior, that Delta Airlines flight would have exploded into bits, instead of Abulumatallab’s pants.