Political Rant #1: Conservative Disconnects

The Republican party is typically known both for its unabashed patriotism and fervent free-enterprise. However, I can't understand how Bush patriots can also be diehard proponents of Reaganomics, since one of the most unpatriotic things corporate America can do now is move all their factories overseas and outsource all their jobs to foreigners abroad. With Americans losing these jobs of the corporate private sector and (if deregulators have their way) losing government jobs in the public sector, what major employers will be left?
(I hear the military is hiring these days.)

Enough with economic conservatives on to social conservatives:
Recently, activist bishops across the country are threatening to withhold communion from pro-choice Catholic politicians, for obvious reasons. I've also heard of similar standpoints concerning euthanasia and stem-cell research. However, similar outcries are not voiced over politicians who are pro-war in Iraq and pro-death penalty (both of which, coincidentally, are openly condemned by the Vatican). I can't understand how leaders in the Church will condemn the killing of unborn fetuses, suffering terminally-ill patients, and pin-sized clumps of zygotic cells, but won't condemn the killing of American troops, Iraqi civilians, and inmates. (Obviously this is greatly oversimplified, but you get the point.)

I think this archbishop actually gets it right.