I’m with Votevets.org on this one. The other day President Bush said that he honored our troops serving in war by giving up the game of golf. Yeah, he really said that. You can read Votevets.org’s take on it, and also how it turns out Bush pretty much had to give up golf anyway because of knee problems. That’s sort of like a diabetic deciding to honor the troops by giving up chocolate chip cookies. In short, ii is as meaningful as putting a yellow ribbon magnet made in China on your gas guzzling SUV.

But that’s not the only foolishness on the part of Bush yesterday. In an interview with Politico and Yahoo yesterday Bush came very close to endorsing the stupid John McCain plan for a temporary gas tax holiday, right after Bush claimed that demand was the problem. Someone ought to clue him in that supply and demand are related to price. He wants to reduce price, evidently, to give demand a little push? How utterly stupid. From Politico:

Q Mr. President, thank you very much for having us into the Roosevelt Room for the first online interview. In the spirit of the Internet, I wonder if we could ask a question from one of our users, Steve Bailey, of New York, who says: With oil at $126 a barrel, pushing up the price of everything — even food — what can your administration do to help people right now?

THE PRESIDENT: I appreciate Steven’s concerns. With the price of gasoline going up, it’s like a tax. I wish I could give Steven a quick answer. In other words, it took us a while to get to where we are — very dependent on oil, and in a world in which demand is greater than oil. So my answer to Steven is that the best thing we can do is to increase supply, and to drill for oil and gas in environmentally friendly ways at home, and build more refineries. Steven probably doesn’t know this, but we haven’t built a new refinery since 1976, and if we’re truly interested in relieving the pressure on our consumers, then we ought to have a very active domestic policy now.

Q Mr. President, as you know, as a possible solution, Senator McCain, Senator Clinton have talked about suspending the federal gasoline tax this summer. You never said an absolute “no” to that. Is it something you would consider or do you think it’s a bad idea to consider?

THE PRESIDENT: I’ll consider it. And there’s all kinds of ideas — they’re trying to pass a deal to stop filling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve; we’ll look at that.

The truth of the matter is that in order for there to be a substantial change either consumers have to change their habits — which we’re encouraging through alternative tax of automobiles — or there has to be an increase of supply. And both of them have to go hand in hand in order to achieve less dependence on this very unsettled oil market.

How stupid can he be, to talk about how consumers need to change habits while at the same time even considering to give out a gas tax holiday. Of course, he doesn’t address the fiscal implications at all, but deficits are the hallmark of this Presidency, so we didn’t expect that.

Doofus!