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I did not know Mark Shea was liberal.

I am not saying that he personally is a liberal. I am saying that he is a tool of the left wing.

That is really a shame, too. He used to be very, very orthodox and a good commentator. But around the time that the waterboarding stuff hit the news, something seems to have snapped. Not that he should have agreed with the decision to use the waterboarding...but the bile that he pounded not only on Bush but on everybody who would not utterly condemn it in the most vitriolic terms went way beyond the pale.

Since that time, anything that he does not agree with in regard to conservatives, he treats with such scorn as to sound like a classic left-winger.

Don't get me wrong: his Biblical exegesis is OK. But anything to do with current events is unreadable (at least IMHO)

Let me give you a recent example, part of an article that was posted on FR:

But when alleged conservative Catholics tell me that they would rather get their social teaching from a talking hairdo on FOX than from the bishops, when they tell me that it is “moralistic” not to be willing to put your soul at risk of the fires of hell by committing what used to be called “war crimes”, when they make excuses for buffoons who think saluting the brave idealists of the Waffen SS with their sons is a sure fire indication of sound judgment—and that any criticism of this makes one vehemently suspect of heresy and a traitor to the Faith—I can only say that the Right is becoming as mindlessly ideological as the Left.

If there was somebody in the tea party movement that did everything that he said above, I'd agree. But I have never met anybody like that, myself...much less a Catholic tea-partier. (I half way expect him to start using the epithet "tea bagger")