[Cboldt]

The president ordered Ashcroft, whose department includes the immigration service, and homeland security director Tom Ridge to "get to the bottom of this immediately," McClellan said.

. . . Still, Bush maintains confidence in the Immigration and Naturalization Service's commissioner, Fleischer said.

If Bush maintains confidence in the INS commissioner, why did he order Ashcroft and Ridge to get to the bottom of it? Further, it is a sign of bad management to ask two separate people to be responsible for the same job.

No, I don't feel better, safer, etc. I want less government, not more.

[mercy]

Less government. That sounds vaguely familiar. Now where have I heard that? Was that an old campaign slogan of Herbert Hoover's? It's catchy. Impossible but catchy,