This article includes the following about John Ashcroft:

Ashcroft, a religious man who does not drink alcohol or caffeine, smoke, gamble or dance...

My gosh, what does he do for fun? No dancing? Not even the Hokey-Pokey? No wonder he wants to ruin the fun for the rest of us.

Also, included in the same article is the following:

The ensuing years [following Clinton's election] saw an explosion of porn, so much so that critics say that Americans' tolerance for sexually explicit material rivals that of Europeans.

Oh, no! We can't be like those dirty Europeans, with thier languages other than English, and thier strange cuisenes and distaste for McDonald's. That's un-American!