Is Jesus a Bernie Sanders fan? Could be, if you believe Howard Dean. On today's Morning Joe, Dean claimed that "if you look at the red-letter version of the Bible, Jesus was probably to the left of the Democratic party."

Dean's declaration came in the context of a discussion of yesterday's forum on poverty in which President Obama and AEI President Arthur Brooks participated. Question: is Dean confusing the establishment of faceless government bureaucracies that can entrap people in dependency with the kind of personal caring for the downtrodden that Christ commanded?

Note: Joe Scarborough quoted Arthur Brooks, the sole conservative on the poverty panel, as saying "the reason I became a free market conservative was because what I cared about the most was the poor. And I believe this was the best way to alleviate suffering."