Ex-Bush-speechwriter warns that GOP will backstab Trump as soon as tax-reform has been passed.

[DetlefK]

http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/18/donald-trump-gop-tax-reform-mcconnell-215723

The reason the tax cut bill is a danger to Trump is that it’s the one last thing keeping the bulk of his own party in line behind him.

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you might think any number of GOPers, who notoriously place a priority on their own reputations and careers, would have jumped ship by now—even calling the president unfit to serve in office. Many of them assuredly think that, but none of them has gone as far as to say so publicly. Not yet.

There’s a good reason for this—and it’s not that they are gutless wonders, though some undoubtedly are. Trump still has one crucial final task before he can be thrown to the wolves: He must sign a tax reform bill. After that, the wolves can have their quarry.

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Except, that is, for tax cuts. This, the defining issue of the Reagan revolution, is the last unifying idea the Republican Party has left. An idea that even Trump—in all his talk about bringing a wrecking ball to the nation’s capital and his own party—has been loath to dispatch. Tax reform long has been the goal of policy leaders like Speaker Paul Ryan. In one poll commissioned by Ryan allies, nearly half of Republicans say it’s their top priority, and three-quarters call it a major one.

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But once Trump signs that bill, he faces his greatest danger: Republicans will finally have an achievement to run on as they seek reelection in 2018. Their donors and supporters will have a prize that eluded them through eight years of Obama, who reversed the Bush-era tax cuts and made them feel like Scrooges who wrecked the global economy. Simply put, they won’t need the president anymore. After that, the investigative team assembled by special counsel Robert Mueller can do its worst. Mueller would actually be doing GOP leaders a favor.

[JustAnotherGen]

1. I tend to agree

The easiest 'reform' is to give them their 'inheritance' money. They can do that without a single member of the house in the Democratic Party.

Give them the 'win' (for the absurdly wealthy) and then lets get rid of that fucker in the white house.

[Corgigal]

2. Hope Trump read this.

His paranoid brain will blow up. Good.