Be careful what you wish for. I have asked many times in recent days how Republicans justify their support for the tax bill. Conveniently enough, the Washington Post asked 10 Republicans that very question (or at least a version of it). Their answers are not surprisingly astounding and shocking in the way that all of politics has become divorced from reality in the past few years.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... ing&wpmm=1
My tally:
Rand Paul's comment is justifiable though notably narrow in its focus so as to avoid all the problems with and contradictions to his exact statement and perhaps more tellingly, Mr. anti-deficit is apparently untroubled by an increase in the deficit amounting into the trillions.
Ted Cruz - If old style politics still counted this would probably pass the acceptable political bullshit test of not answering the question by relying on standard platitudes, cliches and irrelevancies, but in 2017 those platitudes, cliches and irrelevancies no longer pass the test of minimal acceptability.
The rest of them: WTF?? These guys are united states senators??? Hell, these guys graduated from high school??? Isakson of GA takes the cake w/ "the lower 98% is getting a better deal than anybody else". I'll chalk that up to him not even knowing what's in the bill. Lankford of OK is, shall we say, mathematically challenged at best and doesn't even understand the simple question at worst. Or maybe it's the other way around, I can't even tell anymore. There's a certain honesty to Roberts of KS saying in effect "who cares what this bill says, I'm voting for it for other reasons entirely." He obviously saw Mulvaney's appearance on TV last week where he proudly proclaimed that "of course the tax bill is a gimmick, that's the way we do things." As for the rest of Roberts's comments, holy shit, "babbling" doesn't begin to describe the incoherence. It's hard to know what Senator Scott of SC is talking about but it can't possibly be the current tax bill; either that or he simply doesn't understand it. I'd call that a toss up. Somebody had to say it and apparently it was Senator Kennedy of LA's turn: "I'm not an economist, but..." And on and on it goes. Frightening as it is, it does explain a lot, to wit: They're simply idiots doing idiotic things. Not very comforting, though.