Noncompliance

The word of the day, kids, is obfuscation, defined as "the activity of obscuring people's understanding, leaving them baffled or bewildered," and used here by Senator John McCain (R-AZ), who told a crowd gathered in Washington, D.C. that the Bush administration was "not complying with the law. It's incredible. ...When you get to that degree of obfuscation, then you get a little depressed." McCain is referring to a climate change report which is now long overdue from the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). Actually, not producing the report seems more like stonewalling than obfuscation, but there's probably a little of both going on.