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The Pope Sneaks Out At Night to Help People – Republicans Can’t Be Happy

The Pope has been getting on Republicans’ nerves lately. He recently let his feelings about capitalism and trickle down economics be known, saying that the theory of trickle down “has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power…”

This proclamation by the Pope caused the right wing to practically blow their tops. Rush Limbaugh, the author of much of the Republican’s talking points took to his radio show and denounced the Pope and all that he stands for. Said Rush;

“Pope Francis attacked unfettered capitalism as ‘a new tyranny.’ He beseeched global leaders to fight poverty and growing inequality, in a document on Tuesday setting out a platform for his papacy and calling for a renewal of the Catholic Church. In it, Pope Francis went further than previous comments criticizing the global economic system, attacking the ‘idolatry of money.’ ”

I’ve gotta be very caref– I have been numerous times to the Vatican. It wouldn’t exist without tons of money. But, regardless, what this is — somebody has either written this for him or gotten to him. This is just pure Marxism coming out of the mouth of the pope. There’s no such — “unfettered capitalism”? That doesn’t exist anywhere.

And a Fox Host Stuart Varney also lashed out at the Pope for him suggesting that we should be helping the less fortunate among us.

And now this news. A recent interview with Archbishop Konrad Krajewski, the “Almoner of His Holiness,” raised speculation that the Pope joins him on his nightly trips into Rome to give alms to the poor, and it turns out that the rumors are probably true.

A knowledgable source in Rome told The Huffington Post that “Swiss guards confirmed that the pope has ventured out at night, dressed as a regular priest, to meet with homeless men and women.”

Krajewski earlier said, “When I say to him ‘I’m going out into the city this evening’, there’s the constant risk that he will come with me,” and he merely smiled and ducked the question when reporters asked him point-blank whether the Pope accompanied him into the city.

What will these Republicans do now? Oh the calamity!

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Ohio Politics

Breaking News – We Found a Republican Trying to Help The Poor

The Republican Governor of Ohio, Gov. John R. Kasich, is not taking a page from his fellow Republicans.

For those paying attention, Republicans have blocked, filibustered and massacred all proposed bills whose purpose was to help the poor. So when a Republican of any stripe stand up and bucks his party’s wish to see poor Americans suffer, we will cover that… bucking.

“I’m concerned about the fact there seems to be a war on the poor,” Kasich said, as quoted by the New York Times.  “That if you’re poor, somehow you’re shiftless and lazy.”

“You know what?” he said. “The very people who complain ought to ask their grandparents if they worked at the W.P.A.”

The Republican governor last week even “circumvented his own Republican legislature and its Tea Party wing by using a little-known state board to expand Medicaid to 275,000 poor Ohioans under President Obama’s health care law.”

But don’t be fooled however. Kasich has a well documented past of falling in line with his party and their war on the poor. In 2011, he even tried to take away the people’s collective bargaining rights, a move that resulted in a nosedive for his approval ratings and an eventual loss at the polls as the good people of Ohio rejected his union busting bill.

I don’t think Kasich has fully turned away from his party’s war on the poor, but these little steps in this direction is noteworthy.

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