On January 12, 2008, visitors of the National Archives who were wearing "Impeach Bush" tee-shirts were ordered to leave the building, as dairied by Ralph Lopez in Admirers of Constitution Booted for Wearing Impeach T-shirts in DC.
I was so pissed off by the trampling of free speech in the presence of the original First Amendment that I jotted of an email of outrage to the National Archives:

Given what the National Archives stands for, I should hope that persons not be barred from the building just for wearing an Impeach Bush tee-shirt.  This incident has prompted much concern within the blogging community.  IF this is official NARA policy, please clarify on your website that visitors are not allowed to wear political messages.  Thank you.

An unexpected deluge in homelessness could occur in America, far exceeding any resources available to meet the demand.  In addition to the traditional causes of homelessness, several new factors may combine to create a "perfect storm" of homelessness in 2008:

• Home foreclosures from the subprime mortgage financial crisis - which hasn't peaked yet ─ forclosure victims, who once could have afforded to pay rent, now cannot pass a credit check,
• The ensuing credit crunch, reducing availability of new loans even to the creditworthy,
• Veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan, some with broken families, mental health problems, and physical disabilities,
• Skyrocketing energy and health-care bills,
• Stagnant wages for the low and middle classes, ensnaring greater numbers of working poor.

Homelessness in America will likely increase as a result of these new factors combining with the traditional causes of homelessness.

I am just a Blue California Girl in the 3rd District who is frustrated by her Red Representative.  I send letters expressing my views, but what is the use? He is unpersuaded, and elections are so far away.

I am sharing the response I got from Congressman Dan Lungren because it illustrates a pattern of rationalization that explains away the crimes of the Bush Administration.  Or at least I think they are crimes.  With so much obfuscation, facts and opinions seem to be interchangeable.

Perhaps my fellow Kossacks can help me sort through the finer points of my Representative's response letter.