Cardinal D nixed for oppo to same-sex marriage, extending limit on abuse suits. Legislators turn from no-brainer as guest of honor to barely known Dem.
Same-sex issue did it, says Irish Central.
Author: Jim Bowman
Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.
Divide Catholics and conquer them
White House wants to split Catholics so as to blunt bishops’ criticism? Makes sense to me.
Fluke no fluke
In other words, folks, you are being played. She has been an activist all along and the Dems were just waiting for the appropriate time to play her.
While she is described as a third year law student they always fail to mention that she is also the past president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice.
A veteran campaigner, that is. What do you know?
Hat tip Gateway Pundit, NewsAlert
Bill O’Reilly on Sandra Fluke
Obama to Fluke via Carney
Obama joins fray over Limbaugh ‘slut’ comment – Chicago Sun-Times.
“The fact that our political discourse has become debased in many ways is bad enough,” Carney said. “It is worse when it’s directed at a private citizen who was simply expressing her views.”
Before a Congressional committee. Directed by another private citizen. Jay is kidding us.
More on how to pronounce Fluke. The narrative is back to square one, before “duck” and “hook.” http://wp.me/pMJMW-24b
UPDATE: I am now being told that there is some dispute as to the proper pronunciation of Fluke, I was assured it is pronounced FLUCK, which does in fact rhyme with SUCK but I am hearing all of the MSM news outlets pronouncing it as FLUKE which rhymes with PUKE.
h/t Anthropocon
Go man go
Super Spade gives self a pep talk. He’s on to something, of course.
Obama ignores Congress
Santorum vs. Gregory et al.
Santorum gets David Gregory’s goat for what he says and how he says it, not how often he says it. Gregory comes across here as very excited, almost obsessed by Santorum.
He’s not the only one, of course. See this exchange with Margaret Carlson leading the charge but also being told off.
Romney in Detroit speech (sob)
The sound you hear is a Republican tearing his hair out.
Mitt Romney spoke to several empty seats Friday in Detroit, in a speech that offered Democrats more fodder for their attacks and failed to deliver the major economic address his campaign promised.
Is there a skilled politician out there? Somewhere? I leaned toward Romney (asked by lib Dem close friend) some months back.
Now I aim to cast my Illinois vote on March 20 for the Santorum man, who by the way gets a strong thumbs-up by the extremely well-versed international politics expert Michael Ledeen in the WS Journal.
HOLD ON THERE: Larry Kudlow praises Romney’s Detroit speech, in which
. . . he touted his new across-the board 20 percent reduction in personal tax rates. The language is crucial: “By reducing the tax on the next dollar of income earned by all taxpayers, we will encourage hard work, risk-taking, and productivity by allowing Americans to keep more of what they earn.”
This is supply-side language. It is incentive language.
And what this voter wants to hear. What’s going on here? The Hill has been reliable, ditto Kudlow.
