His failure either to swiftly back Brown or join the coup has earned him the soubriquet of «serial bottler» and seriously damaged
his future leadership ambitions, writes John Kampfner in the Daily Mail:
Choosing a
future with similar cost but far lower risk, while fitting and speeding powerful market trends, can restore American energy
leadership and security by building the electricity system of the 21st century with high skill and
ambition, just as we did with the technology of more than a century ago.»