INSTA-PUNDIT

Impressive press conference from W today. Articulate, crisp, and generally persuasive. But why did it take him so long to explain the links between his decisions on carbon dioxide, arsenic and Kyoto? The art of communication is explaining what you’re doing before and during the process. Bush should not have waited till now to put all this together, allowing his critics to paint him as a mere tool of energy interests or a polluting conservative. I fear one aspect of Bush’s business-style approach to government, and one he shares with his father, is that he tends to act first, explain later. That may work in business. But it’s a lousy communications strategy in politics.