Showing posts with label Paul Ryan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Paul Ryan. Show all posts
Wednesday, May 30, 2018

Quote for Day: Michael Gerson on Selective Biblical Inerrancy of Christian Republicans

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Michael Gerson, " Trump Exposes the Hypocrisy of Christian Republicans ":
Tuesday, May 1, 2018

Paul Ryan and the House Chaplain: Gospel According to Ayn Trumps Gospel of Jesus Christ

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If they fired Fr. Conroy for praying for God’s politics in the House, they will also have to get rid of Moses and Isaiah, Deborah and Jesu...
Friday, May 5, 2017

"If There's a Single Worst Actor in This Drama, It Is Ryan": Time for White Catholics to Face Responsibility for Trump

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Jamelle Bouie writes ,  The GOP’s passage of Trumpcare is one of the most callous things the party has ever done.
Thursday, May 4, 2017

GOP Votes to Rip Healthcare from Millions of Americans, Beer Bash Ensues: Twitter Documentation of Today

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Republicans cheering the fact that they're about to vote for a measure that strips 24 million of coverage (while preserving their own ...
Sunday, March 26, 2017

The Healthcare Debacle and the GOP Culture of Cruelty: "A Display of Incompetence and Cruelty"

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Thoughts and prayers with Paul Ryan, whose youthful dream of robbing poor people of their health coverage was dashed today. — Ned Resniko...
Thursday, March 23, 2017

As Day Goes On, William J. Barber's Prophetic Moral Testimony about Trump-Ryan Take Health Care Away Death Bill

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Reverend William J. Barber II speaking yesterday at a protest of the Trumpcare legislation — by way of Charles Pierce : 
Friday, March 10, 2017

Reactions to the Trumpcare "Healthcare Plan" = Tax Cut for the Super-Rich: "How About Everyone Gets the Same Healthcare Coverage Congress Gets. Easy!"

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Matt Shuham at Talking Points Memo David Dayen , "The Republican Health-Care Bill Is the Worst of So Many Worlds": Fund...
Tuesday, March 7, 2017

Trumpcare, Some Questions You Might Ask: Will the "Pro-Life" Catholic Bishops Provide Access to Healthcare for Millions Who Lose Coverage?

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True headline 1: the bill is basically a tax cut ($600 billion) funded by gutting Medicaid. 4 — Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) March 7, 2017 ...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Good, Bad, Ugly: Week in News — "We Judge This to Be Hypocrisy Unprecedented in the History of American Politics"

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Journalists know: When leaders go berserk, furiously denying there's anything going on, blaming others--that's when you're get...
Monday, March 17, 2014

On St. Patrick's Day: The Forgetting of Irish Americans (Including Paul Ryan)

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As St. Patrick's day arrives, interesting commentary about the grand irony of Irish-American history--that a people who arrived i...
Saturday, November 23, 2013

In the News: George Zimmerman, Obamacare, Chris Christie, Paul Ryan, and Moral Sickness of Cultures

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News commentary about disparate topics (though interconnected ones, to my way of thinking) that has caught my eye this week:
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

Ryan Budget: "I Love Rich People"

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Sometimes the title says it all: "What Ryan's Budget Really Says: 'I Love Rich People.'" That's Dean Baker at...
Thursday, November 1, 2012

Romney's Stance on Abortion and Contraception: Unmasking the Catholic Bishops' Pro-Republican Politics

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This past February, I wrote :
Sunday, October 28, 2012

Saving Monsignor Ryan: Frank Cocozzelli Announces Documentary

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You wouldn't know this now, but there was a time when Catholics were known in American culture and politics for defending the rig...
Saturday, October 27, 2012

Doug Wright to His "Moderate" Republican Friends: "Simply Be Honest" about Homophobia

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Doug Wright to his Republican friends who intend to vote Romney-Ryan for "economic" reasons, and who don't, of course,...
Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Paul Ryan's Soup-Kitchen Stunt Backfires: Donors Pushing Back vs. Right-Wing Backlash

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I was unhappy, but not surprised, to read recently that Paul Ryan's soup-kitchen stunt had brought grief to the Youngstown, Ohio,...
Thursday, October 11, 2012

U.S. Catholic Theologians Defend Catholic Social Teaching v. Paul Ryan

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Meanwhile, as the bishops fulminate and brandish their big sticks (and as their leader His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan seeks y...
Friday, September 28, 2012

Quote of Day: Leslie Savan on Paul Ryan and the Abject Failure of Tea-Party Extremism

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Quote of the day-- Leslie Savan at Salon   The Nation  on what the tanking of the Romney-Ryan ticket may portend for the future of th...

Big News: Obama and Democrats Enjoying Wide Lead Among Catholics

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The big news now vis-a-vis Catholics and politics in the U.S.: as Daniel Burke reports at Religion News Service, a Pew Research Center...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012

Midweek News: Maryland Marriage Equality, Mel White, Sr. Simone Campbell and Romney-Ryan

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A midweek miscellany of articles commenting on topics we've been discussing here of late--the following religion-and-politics theme...