pinson's Blogtag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2009:/talk/blogs/pinson//127862009-05-12T22:43:54ZMovable Type Pro 4.21-enAmerica, A Majority Evil Nation: K-Lo & the Archbishoptag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2009:/talk/blogs/pinson//12786.2699112009-05-12T22:28:34Z2009-05-12T22:43:54ZI'm pretty accustomed to moralistic pronouncements from crazy Catholic priests, but this one is just a bit over the top. LOPEZ: You seemed to make very clear that Catholic voters collaborated with evil when they voted for Obama. If you're...pinsonhttp://www.pinsongroup.com
this one is just a bit over the top.
LOPEZ: You seemed to make very clear that Catholic voters collaborated
with evil when they voted for Obama. If you're Catholic and did, do you
have to confess this now that Mexico City, embryo-destructive funding,
among other things, have happened?
ARCHBISHOP BURKE: If a
Catholic knowingly and deliberately votes for a person who is in favor
of the most grievous violations of the natural moral law, then he has
formally cooperated in a grave evil and must confess his serious sin.
Since President Obama clearly announced, during the election campaign,
his anti-life and anti-family agenda, a Catholic who knew his agenda
regarding, for example, procured abortion, embryonic-stem-cell
research, and same-sex marriage, could not have voted for him with a
clear conscience.
Wonder if Kathryn got around to asking the archbishop about torture. Doubt it.
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Olympia Snow: I'm Not Happy Eithertag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2009:/talk/blogs/pinson//12786.2678612009-04-28T18:06:17Z2009-04-28T18:29:07Zpinsonhttp://www.pinsongroup.com
Politico is likely to inspire stark terror: But Sen. Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), a fellow moderate, didn't seem
surprised. On the national level, she says, "you haven't certainly
heard warm encouraging words of how [the GOP] views moderates. Either
you are with us or against us."
"Ultimately we're heading to having the smallest political tent in
history they way things are unfolding," Snowe said. "We should have
learned from the 2006 election, which I was a party of. I happened to
win with 74 percent of the vote in a blue-collar state, but no one
asked me, 'How did you do it?' Seems to me that would have been the
first question that would have come from the Republican Party to find
out so we could avoid further losses."
Does this sound like a happy member of the GOP senate? No it does not. You really have to wonder what Mitch McConnell is up to. It's all fun and games to be the Rush Limbaugh party of torture and greed, but it's obviously a disastrous electoral/governing strategy - one that's now driving away critical members of the party. Snowe is openly saying that she's being ignored by party leaders, and implying she's on the "them" end of the Republicans us vs. them mindset. Ideological purity might be comfortable for McConnell and John Kyl, but it's likely to shrink their minority even further. It'll be interesting to see if Snowe stays onboard for the GOP march to irrelevance.
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Wither Lyndie England?tag:tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com,2009:/talk/blogs/pinson//12786.2670072009-04-22T19:52:44Z2009-04-22T20:00:06ZLost in all the yelling back and forth over the recent disclosures is what went on at Abu Ghraib. Lyndie England and others were convicted of - or plead guilty to - and served time for conduct that, while unpleasant,...pinsonhttp://www.pinsongroup.com