An excerpt from a Wanderer editorial that expresses the sentiment well:
"Now, this is not going to make the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops go away, more’s the pity. Each year, November will still come, and nature will start to die; the days will grow cold, and short, and dark, leaves will fall off trees, bushes will shrivel, the ground grow hard, birds will fly to more hospitable climes, the winds blow cold and sharp, and we will know that the bishops are gathering for their annual November meeting. This is the way it is, my friends—the cross is the gift God gives to His friends, as the Cure of Ars once said. If you prefer W.C. Fields, I believe it was he who said, “That’s the way the cookie crumbles." Let them meet, let them deliberate, let them publish position papers on whatever they care to, enlighten the western world on the economy, and peace, and racism, and add another twelve volumes to the Lectionary, and eliminate more holy days, and solemnly authorize us to high-five each other at the sign of peace. Whatever they choose to do is so utterly beside the point that our best refuge from the anger they might provoke within us is hilarity at such idiocy. I did not decree their irrelevance; they did. It was not our decision that they would do absolutely nothing, over two generations, to address the problems afflicting our beloved Church. Let them do whatever they choose to do; it won’t matter in the least. But while they are gathered in solemn session, deliberating on whether to permit priests to wear blue vestments for advent, or merely to authorize us to wear the “bluer hues of purple” for advent while saving the “violet-er hues of purple” for Lent, let’s you and I get on with it—the wonderful privilege of living our Catholic Faith."
http://bettnet.dyndns.org/blog/weblog.php Domenico Bettinelli, Jr. Blog
"Let them do whatever they choose to do; it won’t matter in the least."
Misleading thousands of unsuspecting souls - and wasting good people's hard-earned contributions - does matter.