AMAZING ! Obama "teaming" with the Pope and putting the right wing on in one hell of a fix.

[RBInMaine]

I just love it. We have the Pope, during the Christmas season, preaching REAL Christianity and exalting the poor and the doctrine that worshiping money is sinful and morally wrong, that vast income disparity is wrong, and that we need to take care of the poor. And it has the right wing right off the rails. GOTTA LOVE IT. And Obama has taken on income disparity and is directly echoing the Pope.

More importantly, we are seeing a real movement here, and one that is capturing the younger generations and will be a defining issue in 2014 and beyond. With fast food and Walmart worker strikes and strong desire to see the minimum wage increased, the Dream Act passed, Immigration Reform passed, and ObamaCare becoming more and more popular with the fixed website, we are seeing a real definition of what the two parties stand for and which side is on the right side of the issues and the right side of history. And all this is happening during the holiday season. How wonderful.

The right wing is MORALLY BANKRUPT AND ON THE WRONG SIDE OF HISTORY on the issues of the day. They offer NOTHING except helping the rich. They pledge allegiance to ALEC, bash the poor, trash low income workers, have NO IDEAS, and HAVE THE MOST UNPRODUCTIVE HOUSE OF REPS IN HISTORY. They are even fighting extending unemployment benefits.

THE TIDE IS TURNING FOLKS, but we in the grassroots need to use social media, letters to the editor, etc. to KEEP UP THE PRESSURE on the right wing and SET THE MESSAGE AND DEFINE THE ISSUES.

[sandyshoes17]

1. Good Democrats need to jump in on this

I was just thinking this yesterday. With budget talks coming soon, they all need to jump on this and change the conversation, it is a great opportunity. I am excited, this is the beginning of something. I hope they get it

[LiberalElite]

2. Won't they just tilt their tin hats

at a jaunty angle and assert this is more proof Obama's a socialist?

[RBInMaine]

4. Let them. It is what the majority AGREE with, AND the new demographics. The R's are shrinking

faster than a drop of water on a hot stovetop.

[okaawhatever]

5. No, and that's the problem. The Republicans are supported by two groups. Corps and social

or religious conservatives. If the Pope and other church leaders come out and say fiscal conservatism i.e. the tea party and corp. America aren't doing God's work, the religious right may back away from supporting corporate America and the other fiscal conservatives.
It's one thing for them to call Obama a socialist. Say that about the Pope and it's a whole different ball game. Especially with the Republicans trying to chip away at the Catholic vote. It's not by accident that some seriously conservative Catholics have been elected/appointed to positions in the last twenty years. Even though Catholics still voted majority Democrat in the 2012 election, those numbers have been slipping since Reagan. The Pope coming out and making anti-corporate statements will set their cause back.

[RBInMaine]

6. GREAT points.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. Maybe the Pope could personally endorse

the TPP?

[Cosmocat]

7. It isn't a game changer

It SHOULD be significant.

But the right wing will do what it does, come up with some half hearted spin, their legions will dutifully/ the "liberal media" will gleefully parrot it.

The Pope will be marginalized and hacked on like San Francisco, Chicago, the French ...

Might cut at the margins a bit with Catholics, but nothing substantial.

This country is far too "fat" with too much comfort to be anywhere near the critical mass for the right to not just keep chugging along.

Far too susceptible to hate on the boogyman du jour the right/media puts in front of them while dabbling on cell phones and otherwise living a life of relative comfort.

[dsteve01]

8. Alright

Sounds like a plan.