system should be run. republicans campaigned for tax cuts. all republicans campaigned for tax cuts, whether it s susan collins or ted cruz, they have been campaigning on this issue. so it lined up naturally for republicans. but no question about t the lessons learned from the failure of obamacare, from perhaps that preemptive rose garden ceremony early in the year, played a huge role in getting here. in terms of leaders in both the house and senate, white house recognizing they couldn t do a top down approach. they needed to involve their members. hand perhaps more importantly that they needed to all work together. kind of 0en a unified front. something we saw so many splits during the health care process. and i think one of the biggest issues here is how the failure led to this point. the stark attacks that these republicans faced when they went home for august recess whrks they talked to their donors and supporters about their inability to get something done, brooke ks by the time th