text: "They [the bishop's conference] wore their nonpartisanship on their sleeves, never demeaned a politician personally or by name, and went out of their way to make sure that they were not being co-opted by partisans of either kind."
  
  MSW must have been on hallucinogenic drugs when he wrote that. He cannot possibly be talking about our USCCB which went out of its way to align itself with the Republican party to such an extent that made the late Richard John Neuhaus of "First Things" positively giddy. Of course, after Neuhaus died his successor at "First Things" wrote a column which basically admitted that Neuhaus' attempt to make the Catholic Church the Republican party at prayer had been an abject failure. That came after it became abundantly clear that W's presidency had been an abject failure itself. The failure of Neuhaus' experiment should be a cautionary tale for the Catholic left. As I've said, when you jump in bed with Caesar you're bound to get screwed - but not in a good way.