McCarrick's unreasonable "either/or" position re: denial of the Eucharist

In reference to news that surfaced earlier this week: "Communion for pro-abortion politicians shouldn’t be refused, says Cardinal McCarrick."

A response over at In Light of the Law:

Recently Cardinal Theodore McCarrick expressed his opinion on an important point of pastoral practice, namely, whether to withhold Holy Communion from notoriously pro-abortion Catholic politicians. McCarrick specifically expressed disagreement with Abp. Raymond Burke, who holds that the Eucharist should not be administered to certain pro-abortion Catholic politicians. But in disagreeing with Burke, I think that McCarrick mischaracterized the question and Burke's compelling answer to it.

Topical quotation and editorial by Robert Novak:

The most surprising recent national polling result was an answer given by likely Republican voters who attend church weekly when Gallup asked their presidential preference. A plurality chose Rudy Giuliani, a Catholic who in 1999 said: "I don't attend regularly, but I attend occasionally."

And I'll hold off (at the moment) criticizing McCarrick's decision to publicaly disagree with a sitting Archbishop in an interview with the Associated Press, especially when he's on very shaky canonical ground to begin with.