President Kerry’s Energy Policy

It might have been hard to think straight over the noise of relocating office furniture in the West Wing over the past few days, so we’re inclined to give President Bush a do-over for his major energy policy speech yesterday. After all, the address was so off target that Mr. Bush, who otherwise has a pretty good track record championing free markets, can’t possibly have read it carefully before he delivered it. If he had, he would have caught himself before uttering an oration that won plaudits from none other than Senator Kerry, who crowed afterward that “For a moment, President Bush finally stopped talking like an oil company executive.”