champagne down pennsylvania avenue. there are only two places where america's popping champagne; the white house and the corporate boardrooms including trump tower. >> the gop tax scam is about bleeding the middle class dry to pad the pockets of corporate america and the wealthiest 1%. paul: joining the panel, "wall street journal" columnist and deputy editor dan henninger, columnist kim strassel and mary anastasia o'grady and editorial page writer kate odell. why did they succeed on taxes when they failed on health care? >> right. that is one question, because you would expect a failure to make it harder to succeed. but i think here the health care failure really focused the minds for the gop that, for them, it was do or die for their majority in 2018 to get a tax bill passed. and it wasn't always clear they would choose do. [laughter] but also i think there was a rougher consensus on what a tax