Sadly, the local Churches have to many true believers who think the GOP and the Catholic Church are one and the same.  At least the Bishop of Syracuse is not one of them.  Like I said yesterday, Bishops and their staffs should not tweet.

At some point the people in the Administration that will be negotiating tax policy will have to also deal with Obamacare and a Democratic minority in the Senate that can stop any change.  Four plus 48 is enough to stop Medicaid changes (I depend on Medicaid) so the cost savings piece of the bill is DOA, making it vulnerable to 60 vote point of order that the GOP cannot clear.  This means that the elimination of the payroll surtaxes on the rich won't survive unless replaced by a more general Value Added Tax.  Or it could mean nothing will happen.

Longnecker does not understand Modernism, the chief feature being that evolution and scripture scholarship radically change our understanding of the authority of the scriptures. The modernists won.