re: #301 Big Beautiful Door

Its beautiful having watched them waste so much time failing to repeal the ACA that they are going to run out of time to give a massive tax cut to billionaires.

Well, they told themselves that passing “repeal and replace” would be awesomely simple, they’d done it dozens of times before. But the problem they immediately ran into is they’d only ever passed repeal bills, and those were A) with larger majorities and B) bills that would never be signed into law. That became evident once the stories about “moderates” being talked into walking the plank on the empty promise that a “better” bill would be negotiated later started showing up.

My prediction is the GOP will immediately take up a clean debt ceiling bill after they come back, then get it passed quickly by making promises to the wingnuts that they’ll get a larger say in the budget/tax cut bills. The “moderates” will again find themselves being told that they have to lie back and think of Wall St as the bills are written up by the “Freedom Caucus” crowd.