The Wall Street Journal Said Whaaaa?

Who snuck this into the Free Market Rich People Deserve Everything Mouthpiece?

Direct payments to the poor still have the biggest bang for the buck, since they go straight into the economic bloodstream, Mr. Zandi says. One dollar of increased food-stamp assistance produces $1.73 in higher economic growth, and the effect would be felt in three to six months. Using that same dollar as a lump-sum tax rebate for income-tax payers would yield all of one penny in additional growth, by Mr. Zandi’s calculations.

Sacre BLEU! Poor people… make.. economic sense… head… combusting… must… turn proletariat into… non-renewable sources of energy…

Who Is Excited For Another 4 Years of Democratic Cowardice?

Because I am!!!!!! You see, when you get elected with overwhelming margins, you should let everyone onto your team. Even those rat bastards who don’t like you and actively campaigned against you:

Sen. Joe Lieberman retained his chairmanship of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Tuesday following a lengthy and often heated debate over what — if any — price the Connecticut Democrat-turned-Independent should pay for his vocal support of Republican Sen. John McCain’s presidential bid….

Democrat-turned-independent Sen. Joe Lieberman managed to keep his Senate committee chairmanship in part because President-elect Barack Obama didn’t want to punish him for supporting Sen. John McCain, Lieberman said Tuesday.

The Senate Democratic caucus, following a lengthy and often heated debate, voted 42-13 Tuesday to let Lieberman continue chairing the Senate Homeland Security Committee.

Plus, nothing says progressive foreign policy like having someone who would sell out America in a heartbeat for Israel as the Chairman of Homeland Security:

Lieberman broke with his party over the war in Iraq and ran as an independent after losing the party’s Connecticut Senate nomination in 2006. He was a fixture on the campaign trail with Sen. McCain…

Along with McCain, Lieberman co-sponsored the 2002 resolution that authorized the U.S. invasion of Iraq and has resisted removing troops. On the campaign trail with McCain this year, Lieberman strongly defended the Republican presidential nominee’s call for staying the course in Iraq.

He endorsed McCain’s bid in December 2007 before the first nominating contest of this year’s election cycle. Before the convention speech, Lieberman angered Democrats when he said Obama was choosing to lose the Iraq war by planning to withdraw American combat troops.

“If Barack Obama’s policy in Iraq had been implemented, he couldn’t be in Iraq today,” Lieberman said, referring to a trip Obama was about to make to Iraq. Lieberman added that Obama “was prepared to accept retreat and defeat.”

1) Unquestionably support neoconservative agenda for 8 years, sell out America for Israel 2) Lose primary race, run against Democratic nominee 3) Actively campaign for Republicans and criticize the Democratic presidential nominee 4) Major election shows majority of Americans disagree with your world view 5) Refuse to apologize 6) ….. 7 Keep powerful Senate chairmanship 8) Profit!!!!!!!

Now where do I buy my ‘4 Years of Disappointment’ t-shirt?

See Also: The First and Most Important Priority, Obama’s Cabinet, Lieberman’s probable course of action…, Lieberman: Two Additional Views: A Failure As Chairman; Obama’s Poker Face, Exactly!, Lieberman, Lieberman Keeps Committee Chairmanship, Stays In Democratic Caucus, Dear Democrats: If You Must Blame, Blame Obama, Weird, Joementum!, Defanging Holy Joe, and What Lieberman Owes Obama.

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Exempt From Taxes So They Can Tell You Voting Democrat Means Hell

This comes from a Catholic church in South Carolina, where the Priest posted the following newsletter:

In response to this, I am obliged by my duty as your shepherd to make two observations:

Between these two visions of the use of lethal violence against the unborn there can be no negotiation or conciliation, and now our nation has chosen for its chief executive the most radical pro-abortion politician ever to serve in the United States Senate or to run for president. We must also take note of the fact that this election was effectively decided by the votes of self-described (but not practicing) Catholics, the majority of whom cast their ballots for President-elect Obama.

1. Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law. Persons in this condition should not receive Holy Communion until and unless they are reconciled to God in the Sacrament of Penance, lest they eat and drink their own condemnation.

2. Barack Obama, although we must always and everywhere disagree with him over abortion, has been duly elected the next President of the United States, and after he takes the Oath of Office next January 20th, he will hold legitimate authority in this nation. For this reason, we are obliged by Scriptural precept to pray for him and to cooperate with him whenever conscience does not bind us otherwise. Let us hope and pray that the responsibilities of the presidency and the grace of God will awaken in the conscience of this extraordinarily gifted man an awareness that the unholy slaughter of children in this nation is the greatest threat to the peace and security of the United States and constitutes a clear and present danger to the common good.

Father Newman

Did you catch all this? Especially: Voting for a pro-abortion politician when a plausible pro-life alternative exits constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil, and those Catholics who do so place themselves outside of the full communion of Christ’s Church and under the judgment of divine law.

So a Catholic priest is essentially using his church’s website to tell his parishioners that if you vote pro-Choice (aka Barack Obama and Democratic), you are cooperating with hell and are going to hell. Anyone want to check on this church’s tax exempt status?

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The Best Analysis Of The Death Of The Republican Party

Two of them, and they oddly come from typically more unforgivably conservative outlets. Mark Lilla writes The Perils of ‘Populist Chic’, a thorough repudiation of the Palin wing of the Republican elite. Check out this devastating commentary:

The Palin farce is already the stuff of legend. For a generation at least it is sure to keep presidential historians and late-night comedians in gainful employment, which is no small thing. But it would be a pity if laughter drowned out serious reflection about this bizarre episode. As Jane Mayer reported recently in the New Yorker (“The Insiders,” Oct. 27, 2008), John McCain’s choice was not a fluke, or a senior moment, or an act of desperation. It was the result of a long campaign by influential conservative intellectuals to find a young, populist leader to whom they might hitch their wagons in the future.

And not just any intellectuals. It was the editors of National Review and the Weekly Standard, magazines that present themselves as heirs to the sophisticated conservatism of William F. Buckley and the bookish seriousness of the New York neoconservatives. After the campaign for Sarah Palin, those intellectual traditions may now be pronounced officially dead.

And the second, I kid you not, from the Weekly Standard:

Republicans have a big problem. Nope, it’s not figuring out how to rebuild their party after consecutive defeats in national elections (that’s easy). Nor is it finding new leaders in Congress (also easy) or latching onto fresh ideas that might improve the Republican brand (easiest of all). The problem is simpler–but also more difficult–than those. It’s the tricky business of dealing with President Barack Obama.

For starters, Republicans should recognize their position in relation to Obama. For the time being anyway, he’s a colossus astride the continent, the most commanding political presence since Ronald Reagan arrived in Washington. He’s the star. Republicans are extras. If they attract attention, it’s likely to be because they’ve done something the media consider outrageous or dumb.

See Also: Sound Advice, New Leadership In Both Parties By February, How to lose a generation in six years, The Real Difference with 2004, Why We Do Not Need a Republican Party, Goodbye To All That, and History Doesn’t Always Repeat Itself.

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Washed Up Likud Senator To Join Republicans, Become Full Time Vampire

Outcasted Likud Senator Joe Lieberman will be caucusing with the Ghoulish Ol’ Pedophile party:

Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has reached out to Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman (I-Conn.) about the prospect of joining the Republican Conference, but Lieberman is still bargaining with Democratic leaders to keep his chairmanship, according to Senate aides in both parties.

“They’ve been talking,” McConnell spokesman Don Stewart said.

A Lieberman aide cautioned that “Sen. Lieberman’s preference is to stay in the caucus, but he’s going to keep all his options open. McConnell has reached out to him, and at this stage, his position is he wants to remain in the caucus but losing the chairmanship is unacceptable.”

This came a day after Harry Reid, Majority Leader of the Senate, gave Lieberman a strong talking to after he spent the past 6 months campaigning for John McCain and holding the Democratic party hostage. A transition to the Republicans will be a natural fit for the Israeli spy who was banished from the Democrats after he refused to put American interests in front of Israeli national security.

See Also: Why Are the Dems Still Dancing with Lieberman?, Dump Joe, Lieberman with a gavel: unacceptable., Joe’s Options?, Lieberman May Have Fate Decided By Secret Vote, Just go Joe, Lieberman not happy with Reid’s offer, flirting with Republicans, Just Say NO To A Jumpin’ Joe, Joe Lieberman, McCain backer and ex-Democrat, tries to keep his Senate committee chair, and Reid looking to remove Sen. Lieberman as Homeland Security Committee head.

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