coming into today, that s a pretty tall task. can you pick your fate metaphor, for how hard this must be for mitch mcconnell. he has to satisfy a couple blocks of people. first you mentioned the budget hawks, bob kirker and jeff flake. they were upset to see this trigger provision would out last night. they are trying to build something else into this bill to address some of those deficit concerns a. lot of their colleagues in the senate don t like that and the house really doesn t like that susan collins is somebody still sitting out there. she wants an amendment to this bill to change how it deals with state and local stacks deductions. we know she is willing to vote on public priorities. we ve seen it before. you got the ron johnson, steve danes folks, who want the small business side this morning. steve danes came out and says he wants to see if that gets ron johnson on board. if you lose two, you can lose corker and flake and pass this it s an ugly look for republicans to lose the