Nope to Pope
You know what happens when you elect bunch of clowns to congress? This. This is what happens.
… last week, four House members — Democrats Dan Lipinski (Ill.), Juan Vargas (Calif.), and Republicans Jeff Fortenberry (Neb.) and Tim Murphy (Pa.) sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi, asking them to put out some sort of guidance “to the House and Senate on the appropriate decorum, protocol and behavior. . . .”
Members could use info on “how to greet the Pope, proper attire [no jeans?] . . . among other matters of etiquette,” the letter said.
These are people who have to told not to yell, “You lie!” at the Pope.
And please don’t let Louie Gohmert try to baptize him by dunking.
JJ….. a little decorum in The House wouldn’t hurt.
Hasn’t been any for a lot of years.
A visit from the Pope…… whatever it takes.
🙂
1I read the Pope will be speaking mostly Spanish while in America.
I hope he does so while speaking to Congress.
2Jeans? Was anyone under the impression that jeans might be appropriate? To greet a foreign head of state? Do Congressmen really show up to official functions in jeans?
3Oy!
Wasn’t it one of these bozos in congress who said or implied that the pope, who is also a scientist, didn’t know what he was talking about when he spoke about climate change. I wouldn’t be surprised if cruz or louie challenged him about taking care of the needy.
4( This is why we can’t have nice things )
5Loopy Louie best stay far away from Pope Francis lest the Pope accidentally spill a little holy water on Louie. That could be good for C-SPAN, add a little excitement into the mix of crazy and boring crazy embarrassments. “Sizzling Louie,” imagine the ratings …
6I think they’re taking the wrong approach. My suggestion: duct tape. Lot’s of it. Applied liberally to mouths, arms, legs, torsos, etc. In some cases also applied to noses.
7Proper decorum is foreign to these people.
8Decorum for Republicans means painting the walls and hanging some drapes. And a new poster of Ronnie R.
9Greet the pope as you would any other person that supports criminals and lies….and ask him to get the dogma straight to get rid of the lies that are hurting people and turn over the priests to the law.
10@L.Long – With all respect to you, I believe that your comment is not reflective of most views in this forum.
11JAKvirginia: Again, you crack me up! Maybe this one is because of my interior design background.
12Still giggling!
I really can’t understand anyone – Catholic or not – who after hearing Pope Francis speak isn’t moved to his side of the table. He leads a huge, diverse and growing religious group. He eschews much of the executive security due someone in his position, because he is 78. And he acknowledges death visits us all. Himself sooner than later. He seems brilliant both in the circles of the Church universal as well as lab science and and social sciences. WTH’s not to like! And I say that as not a Catholic with only a couple of visits to Catholic churches to attend weddings in all my life. Hell I wish the guy was a Methodist bishop.
13Just use the instructions he used for those poor people who ‘s feet he washed, oh, I forget, THEY didn’t need instructions on how to behave.
14@ Polite Kool Marxist,
15You’re thinking the wicked Witch of the West in the Wizard of Oz, aren’t you?
Yesssss, my prettiieees…
I kinda figured something like this would happen. I clearly recall some years ago when Pope JPII was in D.C., Sister Teresa Kane, the president of Women Religious or something similar, to him to task in the sanctuary of the basilica of the Immaculate Conception on the issue of ordination of women. Boy howdy, he really, really hated that! He was a strict disciplinarian from way back and ran the Vatican with an iron fist. He couldn’t believe that some woman – a nun, yet! – was doing this! All she did was express her opinion and within a certain set of perimeters. No guns. No knives. But no thawing of the papal prerogatives, either. Francis looks to be much more malleable. At any rate, it ought to be fun!
16Sandridge similar, very similar. But I can’t be sure if my reference dates back to an exorcism movie (not “The Exorcist” movie), a comic book or another book about devils and holy water. Anyway, we can only hope that something as simple as a splash of holy water would make Louie disappear and never return. Possibly run a few gallons through the fire control system to remove all the varmints from Congress.
17Polite Kool Marxist,
The “Wizard of Oz” works on many levels.
It even has the ‘Flying Monkeys” (those Prettiiees) which fits the Repuke debate lineup to a T:
“Winged monkeys (often referred to in adaptations and popular culture as flying monkeys) are characters from The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, of enough impact between the books and the 1939 movie to have taken their own place in popular culture, regularly referenced in comedic or ironic situations as a source of evil or fear.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winged_monkeys
Pope Francis seems to be a hands-on, no-holds-barred street (and science)-wise guy.
My first thought coming to this page of JJ’s was that if Loopy Louie lipped off to Pope Francis, Francis would probably wind up and cold-cock Louie into the middle of next week (which would be a very good thing).
Allowing for all the past latent hostility between hardshell Baptists like Louie (an ordained Baptist minister) and Catholics (mostly originating from the Baptist’s– see how they were active founders and leaders of the KKK throughout it’s history), it would be more than justified.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KKK#Goals
18“The Second Klan saw threats from every direction. A religious tone was present in its activities: “two-thirds of the national Klan lecturers were Protestant ministers,” says historian Brian R. Farmer.[88]”
(the whole, long Wiki entry is riddled with references to “anti-Catholicism”, and all the other usual boogiemen, etc., that are still the main Repuke themes)
I can’t wait to see the teahadists in congress squirming in their seats while Pope Francis speaks about humane treatment of immigrants, homosexuals, care of the earth, extreme capitalism
19etc. Hope there are closeups of their angry faces.
Once upon a time there were Christians that decided that following the Pope was a BAD THING. A REALLY bad thing. Add to that that many of those papists seemed to want to come into our country to take our jobs (even if NOBODY else would do them), I fear for the response for a commie share-the-wealth, “science” believing, merciful peacenik.
I mean, this do unto others nonsense…
20Well Umpty, If all comments are alike then why comment? The whole point is to bring out other views.
Like MICR who is a common comment and is wrong. The popeF has not said anything of real substance and purpose, except maybe climate change. But has he said gays are A-OK? Has he reversed the stupid lies about condoms not working and a thing of satan? What has he said that has been SUPPORTED by the RCC console??? Has he stated that pedeo priests will now be turned over to the courts?
21Pretty sure pedophile priests are already being handed over to the courts. At least they are around here.
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