Several Republicans have come out and said that Donald Trump cannot be believed.

[kentuck]

Senators such as Jeff Flake and Bob Corker, for example.

Yet, they seem to believe him and his claims about the new tax bill?

What happens if the growth rate is not as rosy as Donald Trump promises? What happens if we end up with huge deficits? What happens if we go into recession? What happens if, one more time, "trickle-down" economics turns out to be a big fat failure?

No problem for the Senators mentioned above. They will not be around to blame. They have chosen to resign before the next election.

There is something about "taxcuts" that acts like a magic elixir for Republicans. Even though there is nothing magical about them, Republicans cannot bring themselves to face reality.

[spanone]

1. tax cuts and war are the republican wet dream.... both are coming.

[lagomorph777]

2. None of the Greedy Old Perverts give a crap about reality.

They are being paid for the billionaire tax giveaway. Period. No consideration of economic or moral reality is relevant.

[dalton99a]

3. If it's more to the rich and less to the poor, they're for it

That's the true essence of the GOP

[Hortensis]

4. And at the same time it's become safe, enough joining in, for the beltway press

to talk about his dangerous level of mental incompetence. Have some been waking in the middle of the night for the past year wondering when they'd be able to speak up from the safe middle of a crowd?

Of course the future will not be rosy at all for working people at virtually all levels -- if we don't wrest back control in 2018. Do we imagine centimillionaires see a class difference worth paying for between the typical engineer and computer draftsmen? These people, pols and media, really all like their jobs too much, so much they'll all convince themselves that anything that'll allow them to keep them is good.

[Irish_Dem]

5. They are facing reality, the reality the rich get richer, and the rest of us get hurt.

They know to sell the plan they have to lie.
Just like they have done in the past when cutting taxes for the benefit of the elite.

[dawg]

6. Trump is not the problem.

The modern Republican Party is the problem. They are the ones pushing to raise taxes on the middle class in order to slash taxes on corporations and the wealthy. And they've been pushing for that for two generations now.

They are the ones who want to kill the ACA and throw tens of millions off of their health insurance.

They are the ones who want to gut Social Security and Medicare.

They are the ones who want to kill public education and replace it with a Frankenstein's monster composed of nutty religious private schools and for-profit "charter" schools.

They are the problem.

Trump is a problem too, of course. Having an uninformed, unstable individual in the Presidency is a real risk. But he would be powerless without his enablers within the Republican Party.

The Republican party needs to fundamentally change or else die. The well being of the country depends on it.

[dalton99a]

9. +1

[world wide wally]

7. They are including triggers to protect the wealthy and soak everyone else.

[hedda_foil]

8. It's not his bill. It's the product of the Congress. DOTUS don't do details

So they'll be just fine.

[rock]

10. Well he does lie incessively!

So, OK, some repubs are right every now and again.