(H/T – Kate, so I’ll try not to swear)
Usually, resolutions to commemorate public figures fly through Congress. However, one Senator, Barbara Boxer (D-CA), is so deep in the pockets of what Rush Limbaugh calls the NAGs she could not abide the following words in the resolution honoring Pope Benedict XVI:
Whereas Pope Benedict XVI has spoken out for the weak and vulnerable, witnessing to the value of each and every human life;….
I honestly don’t know what’s worse; the fact she held up the resolution for a couple days, or the fact the RepubicRATs caved. Do note the pro-death-penalty crowd didn’t have a real problem with the language, even though the official position of the Catholics, at least the last time I checked, is there should be no death penalty.
Boxer ascribes to Obama’s view of conception; a fetus is not a life, it’s a punishment!