Can I just rant for a second?

Polls like this drive me nuts.  Here’s are the questions asked of respondents by Survey USA:

"Based on what you know about the government wiretapping of certain phone calls …Is it clear that President Bush obeyed the law?  … Is it clear that President Bush broke the law? Is it not clear? … Or, are you unfamiliar with the matter?"

Look, jerks.  This is irrelevant.  How can people opine whether Bush "broke the law" if they don’t know what the law is?

I went to law school.  And I can tell you this without fear of contradiction: the law is not what people think it is.  The law is what the law is.

What’s next?  Are we going to start diagnosing patients based on public opinion?