i think that part is really a good point. david, in a broader sense, it s striking to me that this bill is polling worse than even tax hikes have polled. what it says to me in some ways was, and this is true with the aca and i want to get both sides here, but i do think the phenomenon of negative partisanship and polarization that exists in the country means that it s very hard to pass big popular legislation. i don t think they tried very hard here, but they re already behind the eight balls that were on this thing. well, one of the things the republicans got smart about on this thing was recognizing that they couldn t just give the entire store and have a goldman sachs shopping list. they had to sort of, you know, throw some things at people. the person who was really smart in this was marco rubio. the amount of money he got for people at the bottom is actually quite small. it s a tiny, tiny fraction of 1% of the economy. but he s going to be able for years to now pose as this
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they won at least 16 seats. there s another recount to go. we know the activist base is already incredibly energized. this will even do more. i defer to david cay johnson on all things tax related. but i don t think barack obama got a lot of credit when people got money back in their pockets. he didn t get any credit. unfortunately, i don t know people are paying that much attention when their taxes just go down by a little. something else might happen in their withholding they don t notice it. george w. bush did the smartest thing in our political lifetimes practically by sending us a check. i got one, it had my name on it. that check with the name on it. i like it. george w. bush gave you this money. they re not even doing that. plus they made several byrd rule mistakes that mean they have to vote again, which makes them look incredibly stupid. i m hoping democrats have found 20 mistakes and they ll only release two a day so they ll have to keep doing this every day through c
that it feels like even the best case scenario is not going to happen. right, he might just be telling people that because he thinks maybefy say it enough it will happen. have it in writing. this is not the process they usually take. there have been argues maybe it s because he s the president and bob mueller thinks it s logical he wouldn t want this cloud hanging over his head because it could damage his ability to run the country. but this is not just an average investigation. natasha bertrand, thank you. still to come, adi barkan on capitol hill protesting the tax plan. we ll get his reaction to today s vote ahead. tonight s thing 1, thing 2 starts after this.