Category: Politics

The candidates of “hope” and “experience” are vying for Democrats’ support by competing on which one has more zeal for abortion. Well, doesn’t that just make you feel it’s morning in America?
In the meantime, the Fox News Channel has excluded Ron Paul from its candidates’ forum on Sunday, although he got over 10% support in the Iowa GOP caucuses. Seems a bit anti-democratic to me, and ironic for the company whose election slogan is “You Decide”. (For the record, I’m supporting Huckabee so far.)
Has anyone else noticed this? if there’s ever a docudrama about the life of Mitt Romney, Tony Snow could play the lead!

Warsaw, Jan. 2 (CWNews.com) – An entirely secular state is an “anachronism,” according to the Catholic Archbishop of Warsaw. In an interview with the tabloid Fakt, Archbishop Kazimierz Nycz rejected the idea that the influence of faith should be confined to within the churches. That notion, he argued, had been tested during the 20th century and proven a failure. “The Catholic Church in Poland should tell Europe: We know what happened when the Catholic Church was separated from public life,” the Polish archbishop said.

Bill Donohue thinks that Mike Huckabee’s Christmas greeting ad contains a subliminal message.

Catholic League president Bill Donahue said Huckabee went beyond wishing people a joyous holiday. Donahue said he was especially disturbed by the cross-like image created by a white bookcase in the background of the ad, saying he believed it was a subliminal message.
“What he’s trying to say to the evangelicals in western Iowa (is): I’m the real thing,” Donahue said Tuesday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox and Friends. “You know what, sell yourself on your issues, not on what your religion is.”
Huckabee said the bookshelf is just a bookshelf and shrugged off the controversy: “I will confess this: If you play the spot backwards it says, ‘Paul is dead. Paul is dead.'”

This is sad: a formerly constructive Catholic organization is now headed by a man who treats even the shape of a cross as something insidious. Heaven only knows what Donohue thought when he heard Huckabee actually mention the name of Christ!
This sort of nonsense makes me sorry I ever supported the League. Now it seems to fear evangelicals rather than seek common cause with them.
Also, notice the AP’s spin:

Huckabee is courting evangelical voters and other religious conservatives in his bid to win the Iowa caucuses Jan. 3. In Texas for a fundraiser, he said the ad was a harmless holiday greeting even though it excludes other religions.
“If we are so politically correct in this country that a person can’t say enough of the nonsense with the political attack ads could we pause for a few days and say Merry Christmas to each other then we’re really, really in trouble as a country,” Huckabee said.

Apparently for the AP, merely expressing one’s own religion in public without mentioning others is considered as offensive — as “excluding”.
That’s another sign of the misguided thinking that drives religion out of common culture and into the private sphere. It must not stand.

Fr. Neuhaus deftly summarizes the significance of candidate Willard (“Mitt”) Romney’s religion:

Few Catholics believe that a candidate is disqualified by being a Mormon. The reason is obvious: Catholics are accustomed to having heretics in the White House.

Anong the more nauseating moments in Nancy Pelosi’s coronation yesterday was this:

“For our daughters and granddaughters, today we have broken the marble ceiling,” she said. “For our daughters and our granddaughters now, the sky is the limit.”

I do not want my daughters to turn out like Nancy Pelosi, or any other liberal female pseudo-Catholic politician. I did not think their future happiness hinged upon the success of any politician.
And even though Pelosi says that Congress will now consider “the children” in all of its business, I’m a little nervous. For our family, the only things I want from any government is to 1) let us raise our kids in the way we see fit; and 2) let us keep as much of our money as possible. Last year, we paid something like $15,000 in Federal, state, and local taxes. That’s more than we spent on groceries, or anything else except our mortgage. Somehow, I don’t think helping “the children” in those two areas will be on Speaker Pelosi’s agenda.