Uh... When is Tom DeLay Going to Convene Congress to Keep the Pope Alive?
[Ed. note: Update: While lights burn in the Pope's apartment, the Papal bedroom itself has been dark for sometime. It's been more than five hours since the Vatican has updated the Pope's status and then only to refute the initial reports of his death.]
Where's the outrage? I mean, just yesterday he was talking about moral poverty and threatening judges and Michael Schiavo?
Is the Pope too Catholic for him?
Hey, I'm not leaving my newsfeed tonight until Tom DeLay makes sure that the Pope gets to appeal this and snarks at activist Vatican lawyers. I'm waiting until DeLay and Frist demand that federal marshals take both the Pope and the poor late Mrs. Schiavo into custody so they can lie in the Capitol Rotunda for a GOP photo op. Maybe the Bush twins will sing Amazing Grace while they drunkenly wonder aloud how many thousands of more times they've had sex over the two dead people.
Oh wait... there's Jesse Jackson on TV. I know he'll step in. Oops. Nope. He's in memorial mode. Come on, Jesse. Here's another limp body to jump! Once again, you can provide some color to an otherwise black-and-white situation (and with the Florida group and the Vatican, the faces are still mostly white). [In seriousness, Jackson is mentioning that the Pope did vocalize his opposition to apartheid, something I'd forgotten and for which he deserves credit. But this revisionist history that this Pope grabbed charge of the priest sex scandal and shook the American bishops, trying to get them to protect the children no matter what is sickening. Have people really forgotten how badly everyone handled it?]
Oh goodie.. both CNN and MSNBC have announced this is the only story they'll cover ALL night. They've even got new theme music and that's after they just bought Terri Schiavo theme music. I guess it's safe to watch an old movie (actually, I'll be working on a novel and two reference books but same diff). And yes, making popcorn or ordering in Chinese food - unless you were already planning to do so - is tacky.
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