Evangelical Churches break law as they endorse McDreadful from pulpit today, and Blitzer stands by as ethnic minorities are blamed for banking crash

So today pastors at Evangelical churches across the nation will be endorsing McCain from their pulpits. This contravenes the rules governing their IRS tax exempt status, which prohibits pastors engaging in partisan political support, lets hope the great IRS hold these renegade churches accountable and remove their tax exemption status. But, my problem is not so much with the fact they are breaking the law, but that I’ve always thought churches aimed to bring communities together not divide them, partisan politicking will only outcast those whose opinions differ from the rest of the flock.

I guess it shouldn’t surprise us that this little nugget of a morally and ethically challenged PR stunt for McCrappy has been coordinated by a group of extreme conservative churchy people called Churches Against Black People or something.

How can a pastor whose purpose surely is to spread the love of Jesus, bring his flock together, and breach any divides in his community take such a partisan political stance? Surely the mere suggestion of endorsing one political party over another effectively segregates those members of the church and community who may support the other side.

Is it that you have to be a Republican to enter an Evangelical church, or live in an Evangelical community?

It seems to me that the US church is turning the clock back to Medieval times when they held all the political power, maybe because they can no longer sell you a relic to ensure your spot in heavan the next best thing is to vote for one.

Staying with Republicans it seems they have a longing for the good old days themselves. On the neo-con Wolf Blitzer’s morning show today he had Democrat Barney Frank the Banking Committee Chairman ,and Eric Cantor the lead negotiator for the House Republicans, you know the guys who are so desperate to keep their seats this November that they will say anything or do anything and politicize any position to win.

I was stunned to learn that the Republicans have found who it is they’re blaming for this meltdown, it’s not fellow neo-con George Bush and apparently it has nothing to do with any of the Republicans that held Congressional power in Washington for 6 of the last 8 years. No, they blame Jimmy Carter, and what’s worse a particular piece of Carter legislation, let me try and explain…

During a split screen interview with (the amazing) Barney Frank and Eric Cantor, Cantor explained that the current financial meltdown had not been caused by corporate greed, or lack of regulations governing procedure, but by a Jimmy Carter bill that in Cantor’s words ‘forced banks to lend to bad credit risks’.

Now, if Jimmy Carter really wrote a piece of legislation as idiotic as that, forcing banks to lend money to people who couldn’t afford to pay it back, then it would surely have had a negative effect on our economy. Although, as a bad credit risk myself, during my many attempts to borrow money from banks I had no intention of repaying, at no time did anyone inform me that the banks were breaking the law by declining my business. So, Cantor's claim left me a tad confused, and more than a little suspicious, could it be that Eric Cantor was adopting that age old Republican technique of over simplifying, or in other words lying about the issue? Good old Barney put me right.

Barney Frank waited for the slimy looking Cantor to finish mangling history, then displaying a keen knowledge of the specific legislation Cantor had been referring to, he put him firmly in his place.

Frank explained that the Carter legislation had nothing at all to do with forcing banks into bad loans, but that the cad Cantor had been distorting an equal opportunities bill that Carter had forced through Congress to put a stop to the racist practice of denying loans to people based solely on their risky zip code address, or in other words the color of their skin.

Carter’s legislation outlawed the practice and forced banks to put all applicants through the same process, and approve or deny based on their individual credit worthiness and nothing else.

Cantor’s words are shocking, blaming the ethnic minorities for our current plight is as scandalous and outrageous as it is dangerous, and offers a frightening insight into the ever more extreme right wing thinking of 21st Century Republicans. I was surprised even that Republican stooge Blitzer should draw the line somewhere.