"Hail to thee, blithe Spirit! Bird thou never wert, That from Heaven, or near it, Pourest thy full heart In profuse strains of unpremeditated art."
The party that can’t get anything right.
Democrats have spent years complaining that Republican health care legislation would result in fewer people with health insurance, often while pointing to Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates showing just how many would go without coverage. But now Democrats in the House are backing legislation that would result in 500,000 people losing coverage, according to a new report from the CBO.
Put another way, the gang that can’t shoot straight.
Ah yes, there’s that yen to make people do things that goes with being a socialist, for whom society is the thing, individuals not so much.
“It’s no great secret that the presidential race will be won or lost in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin, Ohio — if we can win back the narrative that the word ‘Democrat’ equals people who are fighting for folks who work hard every day, we can continue to win elections,” [exec director of the group, Future Majority, Mark] Riddle [told Politico].
“If [Democrats] get defined as being about socialism and these other words people can hear about out of Washington, then I worry.” [first edit mine]
“Rebranding” here means effort to fool some of the people some of the time — enough to swing “folks who work hard every day” (ah those tried and true by now getting a big old) in the face of AOC et al.
I liken it to old-money GOP’ers pouring huge chunks of cash into the losing Mitt Romney campaign. Running from the tag Trump hung on them in his most recent State of the Union message.
And count on the Big T riding that horse all the way. While bragging on his economy.
Pic that goes with this story,
Lookout, Female Candidates: Sources Say Handsy Joe Biden Will Enter The Presidential Race On Thursday
I 2nd that!
When is a special investigation not a special investigation?
When it’s a fishing expedition.
A related question: Which presidents would have survived a two-year investigation to all the nooks and crannies of his personal and business life such as Mueller’s? Jack Kennedy? LBJ? Bill Clinton? Hey, Ike Eisenhower, for that matter?
Point: Not to compare each and every one, but look, it was all systems go to get this guy, and away they went. Basing whole thing on an opposition-research document made of whole cloth. And with almost all media outlets wildly committed to same goal.
Phew.
Later: How did I forget? What if Republicans mounted such an investigation of . . . hold on . . . Obama? With full-scale media warfare to go with it? Imagine that, if you can.
Anglicans, Jesuits etc. . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
These Anglican priests were taught to pray that way, most of them “abandoned prayer altogether.”
Some years before Vatican II, Dom Gregory Dix was, rather daringly, invited by Cardinal Gerlier of Lyons to give a lecture on Anglican spirituality.
In the discussion, he was asked by an unidentified priest whether the Anglican clergy were taught Ignatian spirituality.
Dix replied that it was the only kind that most of them were taught, and that this was very unfortunate, as it was a type that was very unsuitable to English people, so that most of them, having tried it without success, abandoned prayer altogether.
“Father, that is a truly Benedictine sentiment,” said the questioner as he sat down.
“That,” whispered the meeting’s chairman to the speaker, “was the Father Provincial of the Society of Jesus.”
Et mois? It was less a response from a continental than from a Jesuit…
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Fact is, the priest, the fire dept. chaplain, risked life to save relics and the Blessed Sacrament, understood as the Body of Christ, but NY Times, that wonderful newspaper, had him carrying out a statue of Christ from the church — which has no statues, by the way.
Nice going, NYT.
A priest reports . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
. . . That is the question, given a quite reasonable answer by a priest writing into Fr. Z in 2016:
After my entry into the Catholic Church from Anglicanism and ordination as a Catholic priest, I approached the Archbishop about offering the Mass ad orientem.
His guidance to me was to “catechize the people” regarding whatever I was going to do. Since that time, at the 3 successive assignments I have had, I have periodically done just that.
Other priests whom I have served alongside have had varying reactions, some positive and some negative. In my current assignment, the priest here with me also started occasionally offering the Mass this way a few years ago, and has noticed that his perspective on the priesthood and the Mass has changed.
Something worth pursuing there.
With the arrival of the 1st Sunday of Advent, I took the opportunity…
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Ranking Vatican 2 expert on reforms . . .
Road map for reform . . .
Dominus Vobiscum: Notes from a massgoer's underground
Historic historian at that, his work on the Mass a classic, here in general terms about change/reform early in his Mass of the Roman Rite: Its Origins and Development:
The liturgy of the Mass has become quite a complicated structure, wherein some details do not seem to fit very well, like some venerable, thousand-year-old castle whose crooked corridors and narrow stairways, high towers and large halls appear at first sight strange and queer.
How much more comfortable a modern villa! But in the old building there is really something noble. It treasures the heirloom of bygone years; the architectures of many successive generations have been built into its walls. Now these must be recovered by the latest generation.
So, too, in the Mass-liturgy, only a historical consideration of the evolutionary work of the centuries can make possible a proper appreciation.
One of a series of references to this work…
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