tax cuts are inherently easy to do. you re giving people money. and the obstacles they run into are sort of abstract concerns about the debt and deficit. however, there are enough members right now who, as betsy indicated about ron johnson, mitch mcconnell has had leverage eafr. he didn t have leverage over john mccain or bob corker or jeff flake. republicans tried to solve this in the senate bill by making individual tax cuts expire and go poof at the end of eight years but the argument they re making is, they won t really go poof. so if that s the case and you actually care about the deficit, you don t care about paper shuffling that makes the bill appear less expensive. you care that it is extremely expensive. the question is, do they really care, which we ll find out soon enough. betsy woodruff and john harwood, thanks. are republicans about to rubber stamp him into a job?
he s caught between a rock and a hard place and he wants not to have to speak to this at all. yes, it will revisit his own problems and, secondly, if he s ignored by the voters of alabama, he looks speckless and looks like he doesn t have his finger on the pulse of the base. so he wants us to go away in the worst way possible. that s a really good point. he already got crosswise with the base at the urging of mitch mcconnell and others, even with his endorsement, strange was defeated and got rid of his tweets endorsing strange. now you ve got roy moore. when he won, this is a trump tweet after the primary. spoke to roy moore in alabama last night for the first time. sounds like a really great guy who ran a fantastic race. you ve been reporting on the other side of this which is steve bannon who has been a prominent roy moore backer. where is the breitbart and bannon world? they are between a rock and hard place. as my colleague and i reported
alabama, he looks speckless and looks like he doesn t have his finger on the pulse of the base. so he wants us to go away in the worst way possible. that s a really good point. he already got crosswise with the base at the urging of mitch mcconnell and others, even with his endorsement, strange was defeated and got rid of his tweets endorsing strange. now you ve got roy moore. when he won, this is a trump tweet after the primary. spoke to roy moore in alabama last night for the first time. sounds like a really great guy who ran a fantastic race. you ve been reporting on the other side of this which is steve bannon who has been a prominent roy moore backer. where is the breitbart and bannon world? they are between a rock and hard place. as my colleague and i reported yesterday at the daily beast, even though steve bannon has publicly and one of moore s most prominent and most famous, strongest supporters, even