Is Mitch McConnell Anti-Catholic?

Lots of attention this morning on Mother Jones‘ release of a taped confidential Mitch McConnell strategy session where they discuss oppo research on Ashley Judd, who has since decided not to run against McConnell in Kentucky next year.

McConnell’s camp is comparing the tape’s release to Watergate and has gotten the FBI involved.  Mother Jones has explained they didn’t get the tape through a Watergate-type bugging, which leads one to believe there was someone in that room who isn’t exactly loyal to McConnell.

Anyway, during the meeting a McConnell aide played a tape of Judd on religion saying, “I’d like to think I’m like St. Francis in that way.  Brother Donkey, Sister Bird.”

This reference resulted in uproarious laughter, with the aide saying, “That’s my favorite line so far.  Absolute favorite one so far.”

The group seems ignorant that St. Francis, in dealing with his many infirmities, referred to his own body as “Brother Donkey” and that he was known for preaching sermons to flocks of birds.  His famous poem,”Canticle of the Sun” refers to various manifestations of nature as “Brother” and “Sister.”  Since God created everything, we are all brothers and sisters.

Now imagine that an Obama campaign group had been caught on tape laughing about Brother Donkey and Sister Bird.  Wouldn’t they have been chastised for their ignorance about St. Francis and Catholicism and for laughing at the Church’s most beloved saint?  Wouldn’t Sean Hannity have hit the roof about this lack of respect for Catholics, about this war on Catholics?

Mitch McConnell is a Southern Baptist.  Recently Southern Baptists and Catholics have made common cause over issues like abortion and marriage, but the history between the two groups is a pretty nasty and contentious one, with a long-standing hatred for “Papists” among the Baptists.

Our new Pope took the name Francis for a reason.  Mitch McConnell has some ‘splaining to do.

Mitt Made Millions From Aborted Fetuses

Of all the companies for Bain to invest in!  David Corn has a piece up at Mother Jones* about Mitt’s investment in a medical waste company, Stericycle, that disposes of aborted fetuses.

Corn says that Bain earlier argued that Mitt was not involved in the investment, but documents he’s now obtained show that’s not true:

“The company said Romney left the firm in February 1999 to run the troubled 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City and likely had nothing to do with deal.  The matter never became a campaign issue [during the primary].  But documents filed by Bain and Stericycle with the Securities and Exchange Commission — and obtained by Mother Jones — list Romney as an active participant in the investment.  And this deal helped Stericycle, a company with a poor safety record, grow, while yielding tens of millions of dollars in profits for Romney and his partners.  The documents — one of which was signed by Romney —  also contradict the official account of Romney’s exit from Bain.

“The Stericycle deal — the abortion connection aside — is relevant because of questions regarding the timing of Romney’s departure from the private equity firm he founded.  Responding to a recent Washington Post story reporting that Bain-acquired companies outsourced jobs, the Romney campaign insisted that Romney exited Bain in February 1999, a month or more before Bain took over two of the companies named in the Post‘s article.  The SEC documents undercut that defense, indicating that Romney still played a role in Bain investments until at least the end of 1999.”

Talk about blood money!  Lying and dead fetuses — this will help Mitt with a right wing that already doesn’t trust him.  Yeah, I know they’re not voting for the Kenyan Muslim Communist, but some of them will stay home.

* “Romney Invested in Medical-Wasate Firm That Disposed of Aborted Fetuses, Government Documents Show”