McConnell predicts unpopular tax bill will be a winning issue for GOP

[DonViejo]

By Karen Tumulty December 3 at 2:01 PM

Although polls show that the tax measure nearing completion in Congress is unpopular, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) predicted Sunday that it will ultimately prove a political winner.

By next fall, he said, Americans will already be feeling the effects of the revisions in the tax code, a version of which passed the Senate early Saturday.

Senate approval has moved President Trump and the Republicans who control both houses of Congress close to being able to claim their first major legislative achievement of an era in which they control both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue.

“We think this will produce results, results we will certainly be able to talk to the American people about in the fall of 2018 and 2020 as well,” McConnell said on ABC’s “This Week.”

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[Fullduplexxx]

1. They had to pass it ti see what was in it

[Vinca]

2. Well, since we peons only spend our money on booze, maybe he's right.

You'd have to be crawling-on-your-knees drunk to vote for a Republican.

[Iliyah]

3. Since children are lazy mochers and don't deserve

health care coverage per GOPs.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. He's probably right - if they can time all the provisions correctly - IOW...

get good provisions in during elections and bad ones immediately after elections - with a long time before the next so people can be distracted and forget