"A Solution in Search of a Problem"

Arlen Specter calls Bush's latest attempt to deface the Constitution a "solution in search of a problem," and in the wake of the Times' White House reporter Elizabeth Bumiller's assertion that:

Most reporters I know are not passionately political, left or right. Our real ideology is a love of conflict, meaning that we have a bias for stories about, yes, personality feuds, but also about disputes over policy. In the White House, as in conversations over the backyard fence, what goes wrong is news.

I repeat the question: where is the long, hard hitting article covering the dispute over policy within the White House regarding marriage rights? The Vice-President and the President are diametrically opposed on the President's goal to amend the Constitution, and the self-described conflict-loving press is nowhere.

The Post yesterday wrote about the denial of communion to Catholics who support equal rights for all, but included this whopper: "The dramatic episode capped several years of increasing acrimony over the Rainbow Sash Movement, an effort by gay Catholics to counter what they view as homophobia in the church."

With those simple words, "what they view as," we're now one step closer to losing our grip on the English language. The dictionary definition of homophobia is "discrimination against homosexuals." If denying communion to supporters of gay rights is not discrimination against homosexuals, and thus homophobia, nothing is. There's nothing subjective about it, and for the Post to pretend otherwise is at best incompetent.