Better Dead than Ted?

Patrick Kennedy vs. the church

Crap the Catholic Church foolishly put up with Ted, is nuh-uh with Patrick.  Everything else is the same.

If it's true that each iteration of Joseph P.Kennedy DNA is significantly watered down, and it is, then small wonder that Patrick is dad Teddy's clone, only dumber. The inverse ratio of intellect to arrogant sense of entitlement, however, is enhanced, alas. “ At a graveside ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery, Cardinal Theodore A. McCarrick read aloud the letters exchanged between the dying senator and Pope Benedict XVI. In his letter, Kennedy listed the ways in which his public policy views mirrored the social teachings of the church. “ I have always tried to be a faithful Catholic,’’ he wrote. The pope’s response was polite, if tepid. It reflected the ambivalence of a pontiff who knew the ways in which Kennedy’s views did not mirror church teachings, but did not want to point them out to a dying, yet still powerful, man. But now there’s no such reluctance when it comes to Kennedy’s son. With Patrick Kennedy, the cassocks are off. After Representative Kennedy of Rhode Island questioned why the church is vowing to fight any health care bill that does not explicitly ban the use of public money for abortions, Bishop Thomas J. Tobin of Providence fired back. Tobin called Kennedy’s support of abortion rights “a deliberate and obstinate act of will’’ that was “unacceptable to the church and scandalous to many of our members.’’ [Patrick Kennedy vs. the church] ”  Now, deal with Pelosi.