Deeply unpopular Congress aims to pass deeply unpopular bill for deeply unpopular president to sign

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This tax bill is the Republican agenda, and advancing political priorities when you have the majority is how representative democracy works.

It’s just that everything about it is so unpopular. That’s the odd thing.

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The Republican Party overall is viewed positively by fewer than 3 in 10 Americans, according to polling that same month from CNN. That is the lowest rate of approval measured by CNN since it started asking in 1992. In that poll, only 20 percent of respondents approved of the party’s congressional leadership.

So. Sixty-nine percent of Americans disapprove of Republicans in a Congress that is disapproved of by 81 percent of the country. If it passes (almost certainly on a party-line vote) a tax bill viewed negatively by 52 percent of the country (with 23 percent having no opinion, according to Quinnipiac), it heads to Trump’s desk.

Gallup’s most recent weekly approval numbers show that only 37 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing. More than half the country — 56 percent — disapproves. A Post-ABC poll released this month shows Trump at historic lows on approval.

In other words, Trump is the least popular chief executive at this point in his administration of any modern president.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/11/29/deeply-unpopular-congress-aims-to-pass-deeply-unpopular-bill-for-deeply-unpopular-president-to-sign/

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1. But deeply popular with their donors. NT

[world wide wally]

2. That is the ONLY thing that matters

Now they can use the donors' money to convince voters that they didn't see what they saw and the Dems would be worse for them. Just like what "might have been" in Hillary's email was more harmful than Trump's known ties to Russia. Just ask Matt Lauer.

See how that works?

[2naSalit]

3. K&R