GOP Rep. Paul Ryan is heading to Georgetown University for a speech Thursday morning, but not before an old-fashioned, Catholic school knuckle-rapping.
A group of nearly 90 professors and administrators connected to the Jesuit-founded school in Washington, D.C., has sent Ryan, R-Wis., a letter saying he’s misused Catholic doctrine to support his deficit-reducing, GOP House budget.
“We appreciate your willingness to talk about how Catholic social teaching can help inform effective policy in dealing with the urgent challenges facing our country,” the letter states. “However, we would be remiss … if we did not challenge your continuing misuse of Catholic teaching to defend a budget plan that decimates food programs for struggling families, radically weakens protections for the elderly and sick and gives more tax breaks to the wealthiest few.”
Ah yes, the ole 'tax breaks for the wealthiest few' plaint again, eh? These folks really need to cobble together a new script from which to cull their astonishingly inaccurate talking points. At least you could then give them a scintilla of credit for being original. I guess having a 100% pro-life voting record doesn't really pass muster with these seamless garment groupies. Sadly, Ryan must now deal with arrows being fired not only from all the president's men, but also from the angry, increasingly irrelevant and, I think deeply jealous forces of 1960s-era liberal Catholicism. The sun is setting on this bunch.
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"I think deeply jealous forces of 1960s-era liberal Catholicism" - exactly right.
ReplyDeleteDear Professors of Georgetown, yes the Church needs to take care of struggling families, the sick, and elderly, but where in Catholic social teaching does it say the Federal government must do this?!
So many Catholics are so misguided...
Come on Niall, the federal government has had great success elevating people from the dregs of poverty: the Great Society, the War on Poverty... it's just one blue ribbon after another!
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