The GOP may yet sink the tax bill.

[L. Coyote]

The GOP may yet do what the Democrats cannot. Sink the tax bill.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/5/1721334/-The-GOP-may-yet-do-what-the-Democrats-cannot-Sink-the-tax-bill

In football, when you're down by 7 late in the fourth quarter, all you can do is to play your ass off, and hope to force a turnover to get the ball back. The same thing is true when you're in the minority in politics. And where the GOP tax bill is concerned, the rain is pouring down, and the ball is getting wet.

One of the biggest stories in the news yesterday got almost no coverage, because Trump-Russia kept going off like a neutron bomb. To catch you up, here's what happened.Yesterday, Paul Ryan brought a motion to the floor to agree to "go to conference" on the tax bill. This is not a bill for a law, it's strictly a procedural vote, allowing for the formation of House group to go into a conference with a group of Senators to hammer out the differences in the GOP House and Senate dueling tax bills, to blend them into one seamless bill to vote on to pass for the President to sing. Legislatively, this should be like screwing the cap back on the bottle when you're finished drinking, a no brainer. And instead, the GOP almost dropped the open bottle.

The vote almost failed. If it had, the tax bill issue would have been dead on the spot. It happened because the House Freedom caucus made a perfectly timed power play. The Freedom caucus are governmental nihilists, they want to shrink the government, and strangle government spending. They were furious ................

[BadGimp]

1. Reading the Comments is a crash course on How a Bill Becomes Law :)

[Leith]

2. rethugs Fucked the Bills Up So Bad

that it seems like they wanted it to fail from the beginning.

Illegible nonsense handwritten in the margins? Screwing up the business AMT and forgetting corporate deductions? Almost 500 pages introduced half an hour before the vote?

The Three Stooges with the Marx Brothers throwing rotten eggs and tomatoes at them could have done a better job. If Yertle did NOT set it all up to fail spectacularly, then his gross incompetence just boggles the brain.