text: Why Catholic bishops continue to believe that Republicans in Congress care one whit what they think about anything is beyond me. The next time Republicans will pretend to care is around 2019 when they will use the bishops to help them capture the reliable Catholic vote for the Republican nominee because of abortion and gay marriage, and of course it will work like a charm. And then it will be three more years of ignoring them. Rinse, repeat. 
  
  The bishops are as clueless as Mitt Romney was when he allowed Trump to humiliate him by pretending that he was interested in appointing Romney as Secretary of State when Trump wined and dined him at Jean Georges in New York only to plop Romney onto the junk heap afterwards. You'd think the bishops would take the hint that they're being similarly used but they seem completely oblivious. They might as well be whistling past the graveyard - Republicans in Congress just aren't interested in helping anyone with taxes but the tippy top one percent.