Oy...Ratzinger

So much for my subtle and cunning Italians eh?
As a great man once opined at another dim dark cross roads of history "Well that could have gone better".
I can't say I find much hope in the new Pope. Benedict the Sixteenth is seventy eight years old and made his bones as an inflexible doctrinaire of the R.C.C. it is useless to expect anything in the way of change or even mercy from the man. The Former Karlo Ratzinger is harsh down east Johnnycake, hard to swallow, tough on the stomach and will not leave save under dire compulsion.
So of course, CNN of course cannot get enough of the man! Ever a whore for power, they love the myth of tuff guyz remaking da world. The simpering bints who report the news thereon did their reporting last night with pompous liturgical music moaning in the background.
Truly Karlo is naught but the sort of Pope to gratify the base vengeful urges of the Pat Buchanans and William Donovans out there. Angry and disassociated in a American Church that is rapidly yielding to senescence, all these loud mouths can do is think up new ways to blame and persecute the few liberals fool enough still attend the weekly liturgy. The are great blamers of American Decadence, quite literally their argument is; the priest shortage is all part and parcel of the salacious plotlines on the WB's teenybopper soap operas! To them, the papacy is but a means to bedevil the likes of John Kerry, whose 08' ambitions if any took a hard knock yestersday. Not a word from the Throne of Saint Peter about George Bush's queer little thing for the electric chair or Ray Flynn nigh pagan communion with Pabst Blue Ribbon.

No doubt Buchanan, Donovan and Ray Flynn will be all over the sunday morning chat shows...Tim Russert will look all reverent and solemn and go on blabbing about "our" sacramental church. Why shouldn't they? Hell there side has one another singular victory, from Moscow to Washington DC to Vatican City, Enraged and Demented Conservatism Marches on and on and on.