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If the Pope had any intestinal fortitude he would lay the smack down on Barry and his Muslim buddies.
Maybe the thugs from Chicago should remember what religion is practiced by the original mafia.
I picture that an entity from the UN will offer to help the Catholics with their “money-laundering problem”
As someone else said, I thought I was going to see The Onion as the source or a “/sarc” tag on this story.
Even if the allegations are true — and let's be honest, there is a history of problems with banking operations in the Vatican, and Italian politics and finance are not exactly the most up-and-up in the world — this shows incredible political stupidity. What president in his right mind would do something like this in an election year? It would be comparable to the governor of Michigan opening a corruption probe of General Motors and the UAW at the same time half a year before his re-election date.
There are some things you just don't do.
In fact, this is so politically idiotic that I seriously wonder if it's something that was done by a career staff member who is politically tone-deaf, and if Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama decided they couldn't stand in the way of a senior staff recommendation because if they tried to postpone or delay things, once they got involved, the whole mess would blow sky high.
Those of us outside the beltway sometimes assume that presidents have huge control of the levers of government. That is not necessarily the case. Just as the career civil service people pretty much run the Department of Defense's day-to-day operations, most Washington bureaucracies operate largely autonomously of whoever happens to be in the White House, and people at the cabinet secretary level sometimes find out very late in the process what their career staff have been doing.
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Takes one to know one.
It’s quite literally the Chicago Way. They keep coming at you and if you blink or act scared they’ll never stop until you’re done. If you fight back good and hard they run, like the bullies they are. Will Catholics support their beliefs or their politicians?
Translation{ Shut the heck up, Cardinal. Eat you Peas.