Michael O'Connell

GOP consultant, veteran of races from Reagan to Kasich. No more bewildered by the age in which I find myself than was Henry Adams.

[Michael O'Connell @oconnellap]

@carrieatucker This would come as news to my daughter, who has Down Syndrome and is now in her fourteenth year enrolled in @stanthonykids, which integrates students with special needs into diocesan schools here.

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@johngizzi I think you’ll find a proposal for a $1600 “negative income tax” floated by Nixon as far back as 1969.

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@chrisbriem With remarkably little pretense at the time that they had not taken a pass solely to prevent a shift of power away from rural communities with already-declining population to cities crowded with not only the young but immigrants, many of them Catholic or Jewish.

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@johngizzi @PrezWisdom @Harvard @TIME It is enormously to the credit of Harding and the GOP as then constituted that he traveled to
Alabama in 1921–as the last vestiges of any practical effect of the Reconstruction amendments there were being erased—to speak about civil rights.

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@StartledNormie @jchmcl09 @RBrookhiser James Byrnes similarly left the Court to oversee wartime production in the forties. Not everyone finds the semi-cloister of appellate life congenial; today, nearly everyone comes from the appellate bench, so they know what they’re getting into.

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@EggerDC @SeanTrende I’m pretty sympathetic to Moreno—who, to be clear, I think might just be capable of filling the intellectual gap soon to be left in the Senate by Tommy Tuberville—in choosing discretion about what for him is a family matter.

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@johngizzi Which, with a few details changed, is essentially the closing scene of the movie version of “Advise and Consent.”

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@johngizzi If the goal were a dramatic setup, we could probably leave it at that “the lion in winter, after months of forced reflection, returns to the chamber to cast the deciding vote on a highly problematic nominee.”

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@holysmoke There’s something endearing at this stage in history about you folks pining for the glories of Empire.

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@RBrookhiser It is commonly said to have been invoked twice, with the proclamation of Marian doctrines in 1854 and 1950—but since the idea of infallibility was not clarified until the 1869-70 Vatican Council, that doesn’t really add up.

[Michael O'Connell @oconnellap]

@RBrookhiser Everywhere in the Eastern Mediterranean. Latin played a comparable role in the west.

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@chrisbriem No idea who they are but pretty confident that I routinely walked past that house when I worked at the foot of the Birmingham Bridge.

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@mfjlewis @MichaelMcGough3 Even discounting for Faggioli’s bugaboos about the glories of the Great Renewal, the Commonweal article is simply drivel, conflating the increasingly bizarre positions of the Society with those of the vastly larger group of Catholics drawn to the older liturgy throughout the West

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@MichaelMcGough3 @RBrookhiser Lawrence of Pennsylvania may or may not have been a lion in winter by then but John Bailey in Connecticut and many other Catholic Democratic leaders interpreted the WV results as a sign that it was no longer 1928. Whether real or a mirage, that had an impact.

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@MichaelMcGough3 Well you won’t get it from this father of a current college student and of a recent graduate; both girls consume books voraciously.

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@LouisMassett @MichaelMcGough3 Not entirely sure where this is going: if Massett is who I think he is he’s still working through the legacy of growing up in an obscurantist version of Port-Royal while Ivereigh needs only a few visits to Midwestern diners for a full-fledged membership in the fan fiction club.

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@johngizzi @judeokeyvlogs There is of course the nagging reality that Traditionis Custodes affected the Society not at all, since it has operated outside Church structures for half a century and increasingly defined and not infrequently congratulated itself on that basis.

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@oconnellap That sounds right. I feel the same way about other cleaned-up buildings, including my childhood parish Sacred Heart Church.

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@johngizzi @Politics1com Which led to a freakish race in which an ex-Governor, then remembered best as a segregationist candidate against Truman a few years before and supported by the FDR-loyalist incumbent Governor, wins a blowout race as a write-in candidate.

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@MichaelMcGough3 It will never not seem odd to me that it is no longer black, although that cleaning must have been in the early nineties.