Witch Hunt

Habemus Liberals

• ....a theological conservative of Italian ancestry who vigorously backs Vatican positions on abortion, gay marriage....
• Cardinal Bergoglio has clashed with the Argentine government, particularly former President Néstor Kirchner and his successor and widow, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, about issues like gay marriage, abortion and the adoption of children by gay couples.
• But Francis shares Benedict’s core doctrinal positions and is not considered likely to push changes in positions like the church’s ban on the ordination of women as priests or its strict opposition to abortion and gay marriage.
• In Latin America, the church is confronting many of the same cultural and political battles as it is in Europe and the United States: a rise in acceptance of gay relationships, abortion and birth control...
• Francis holds traditional and conservative views, opposing liberation theology, abortion, gay marriage and the ordination of women.

From numerous articles in today's New York Times. See if you can discern a common theme. 

(Yes, Liberals want the new pope to get busy and embrace abortion and gay marriage!)


Touching
A frenzy of lobbying has been touched off by President Obama’s order to slice spending this year by $85 billion, divided equally between military and civilian programs. The cuts have created new alliances and strange bedfellows. (NYT, 3/13/2013)

If someone awoke from a coma this morning and read this that individual would think that President Obama was the responsible guy with the green eyeshade cutting wasteful spending in Washington. Rather - as we know - he's the guy who conceived the sequester never believing that Republicans would go along. He's also the guy who said that the country doesn't have a spending problem, it has a health care problem. Oh, and also the guy who added trillions to the national debt. 


Tolerance
To implement affordable housing in the Clinton years, the Department of Housing and Urban Development lowered capital standards for Fannie and Freddie and encouraged them to be very tolerant in their mortgage purchases. Soon fast-buck artists were generating substandard paper and palming it off on Fannie and Freddie, who later would show that they too were no strangers to corruption. (George Melloan, WSJ, 3/14/2013)

A(nother) reminder of (some of) the real culprits in the mortgage meltdown. 

You thought it was George Bush, didn't you?