Fresh off his re-election, Bush decided that he would finally have regular press conferences, something he avoided like the plague during his first term. Then, as his poll numbers have dropped (like the new NBC/WSJ poll), he has clammed up. As Dan Froomkin details, the Dear Leader is silent.
Bush had indeed been giving one press conference a month ever since the election. But his last one was on May 31. He didn’t have a single full-bore news conference all June. And so far, none in July.
