COUGH… sorry… I just choked on my… COUGH… rosary.

Well, you read it correctly. This just in from the Vatican – the Democrats are evidently agents of extinction. You know, in case you didn’t know that.

Raymond Burke, who was named prefect of the Vatican’s Supreme Court of the Apostolic Signature in June, told the Italian Catholic newspaper Avvenire that the U.S. Democratic Party risked “transforming itself definitively into a party of death for its decisions on bioethical issues.”

Ah, well. Here we go. Republicans were the same silk robe while carrying a sickle with its boney hands because they “sent our boys overseas to Iraq.” Come on. Let’s hear it. I’ll be over here kicking my feet up.

But before you crawl upon your soapbox, keep reading. This affront is about ABORTION, not the war… and you tell me, when would you prefer to kill? In a foreign land or in-utero?! Oh, did I say that out loud? Burke, take it away:

Burke said pro-life Democrats were “rare” and that it saddened him that the party [specifically Joe Biden and Nancy Pelosi] that helped “our immigrant parents and grandparents” prosper in America had changed so much over the years.

Anyone see what’s really wrong with this picture? The Vatican is NO DIFFERENT here than the fraudulent pastors who decide they want to stick it to the IRS and tell their congregations in whom they should vote.

MEMO to any Mountebank in this position: In looking through all my theology books, I don’t recall reading anything during the Schisms or any Ecumencial Council that it’s the Vatican’s place to stick its gem-encrusted nose in politics. Maybe I’m wrong? I need to go back to CCD, I guess.

So, uh, I can’t wait to see the IRS enforce its tax-exempt revocations on the Holy See. News at 11.