In today’s press conference, our President, for once, stood up to the MSM bullies and gave clear conservative statements:

[Asked by a reporter if he would call on Americans to conserve energy, Bush responded:]
“They’re smart enough to figure out whether they’re going to drive less or not. I mean, you know, it’s interesting what the price of gasoline has done,” Bush said at a news conference in the White House press room, “is it caused people to drive less. That’s why they want smaller cars: They want to conserve. But the consumer’s plenty bright. The marketplace works.”

“You noticed my statement yesterday, I talked about good conservation and — you know, people can figure out whether they need to drive more or less,” he said. ”They can balance their own checkbooks.”
“It’s a little presumptuous on my part to dictate how consumers live their own lives,” the president added. “I’ve got faith in the American people.”

[Asked by another reporter why oil companies were trying to expand exploration for oil, Bush said,]

“It seems like it makes sense to me to say to the world at we’re going to use, you know, new technologies to explore for oil and gas in the United States … to send a clear message that the supplies of oil will increase,” he said.

“The president doesn’t have a magic wand,” the president added. “You can’t just say: ‘Low gas!’ ”

My favorite part?

At one point he referred sardonically to “your wonderful newspapers” and “your TV shows.”

“Is that what you call them – TV shows?” he teased. “Newscasts!”

Of course they are more TV shows than newscasts…

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