It is time for the bullshit to end on this weak premise:
I'm a strong believer in free enterprise. So my natural instinct is to oppose government intervention.
It is neither natural, nor an instinct, to oppose government intervention. Governance is what we get in our natural search for consensus in direction of competing viewpoints. When President Bush says his natural instinct is to oppose government intervention of a democratically elected government, it is an admission that he believes that his belief trumps the electorate.
It is an admission of the dictatorally-inclined.
And it is an admission that for him, it is not a considered belief, but something he stumbled upon - an "instinct" - and he's thought about it as much as a dog thinks about why he smells the bushes for the urine scents of other animals as he walks along the sidewalk.
I'm sure that his presentation last night gave much of America a sense of deja vu wretching, but for whatever reason, this line stuck out for me. It is time to crush the acceptance of "instinctual governance" with TMIPFE* being the example of why it should not be accepted. We cannot have morons that pride themselves as unthinking as they make policy decisions in the position of making those decisions - and when they admit that they are just that, by using such terms as "natural instincts", well then, they have to be crushed out of politics and government.
*The Most Inept Public Figure Ever