I thought the First Amendment was established primarily to enable folks to criticize the current government. Apparently, though, VP Cheney thinks his political career shouldn't implicitly expose his wife to political satire. I had planned to link to the original pages at whitehouse.org, but they're taken down. It seems that Ashcroft would be happy to do away with the "establishment" clause which led to our current understanding of church and state. I wonder if we can just do away with the whole 1st amendment, as far as this White House is concerned.