[mburbank]

I think you're wrong. While Juliani has national credability and a soft spot for constitutional disregard, Ashcorft delivers the far right Christian base simply be being in the cabinet.

None of this is any excuse for not holding at VERY least the professional writers in this administration to some sort of standard. It is extreme hypocrisy to demand highschool students be functionally literate while accepting official documents like that one.

It's one thing to let them get away with a really stupid law enforcement initiative. Have any of you met someone so casual in their drug use they would let a lack of access to parphenalia stand in their way? It's an entirely other thing to foist this kind of language abuse on the public.