Today’s topics are about different gospels – the good news about the Obama stimulus, the social gospel of progressive Catholics and the Republican gospel of “you’re on your own.”

Time Magazine’s senior national correspondent Michael Grunwald has written a book comparing the Obama Administration’s stimulus program to FDR’s New Deal. Why hasn’t the public understood how effective that stimulus was? Grunwald says it’s partly because of the news media, but also because of incredible Republican distortions of the record. http://www.michaelgrunwald.com/

The GOP rejects, then embraces, and now is stuck with Todd Akin

An expert on Catholic law and the co-chair of Catholics for Obama says the president is more pro-life than Mitt Romney because abortions are more likely when aid is cut to poor women. http://commonwealmagazine.org/authors/nicholas-p-cafardi

Bill Press interviews Congresswoman Diana DeGette on the day after the first presidential debate in her home state of Colorado. http://www.billpressshow.com/ http://degette.house.gov/