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20 idiots of the “Freedom” Caucus have severly hurt the Trump momentum, the Trump rally, and the ability of the Republicans to now get anything done. I don’t give a rat about Rand Paul’s pathetic vainglory and career, and the delusional Ted Cruz 2020 Republicans can all go to hell. They, along with their Democratic Party allies, have once again stigmatized the Republican Congress as the Do Nothing Republicans. The August tax cuts are now facing a much more difficult chance of success, if we don’t get the August tax cuts the DOW will tank and the Dems and the MSM will blame Trump. The 20 idiots have greatly strengthened the hand of the Democrats who were going to be in huge trouble if the markets continued their Trump rally, now the “Freedom” Caucus - the 20 idiots - probably have doomed this rally. Pray Trump can overcome these back stabbers and get the tax cuts in despite these nosebleeding idiots of vainglory.

What this means right now thanks to the vainglory of RandPAC and some Pharma interests who wanted Obamacare to stay and gave big money to Meadows hoping to get the No vote, the Obamacare taxes stay with Obamacare. So now the only thing that can be fixed is the rest of the tax code.

Trump agreed to Paul’s request to pull the bill - thank God, it was the best thing to do under the circumstances. Now Republicans will try to move on to the tax cuts, but remember we will have that Democrat operative Yellen in the Fed taking snips at the Trump rally by raising the interest rate too much, too fast, to try and sabotage any rally. Now that the rally has been hurt by the “Freedom” Caucus, she may come out with even a more devastating hike to really pull down the markets, much less the millions of Americans in credit card debt who will get snail mail that their interest rate on their 9.99% credit card is going to 14.99% or more - happy days soon coming for them (not).

I think Trump is the best leader, he may be able to pull off the tax cuts yet, even with the nosebleeding 20 idiots who are out to get him for their own vanity. If we don’t get the tax cuts by August, the markets will collapse, the Dems and MSM will blame Trump, but I will not be alone blaming Rand Paul, the Ted Cruz Republican cult, and the Democrats.

I agree with you. Aand I’m one of the few here that does.

I’m watching the market very closely and will be doing that hour by hour when the tax negotiations begin.

If any of these 20 Freedom Caucus Utopian dreamers start signalling that that are going to stymie this tax cut bill, due to their utopian dreams, I’m moving my large cap, mid cap , S&P 500 stocks to super conservative baskets.

Seems to me that this whole screw-up has its roots in fear of what will happen or not happen in the Senate. The fear of the filibuster caused the House Republicans to break up the health care bill into three phases, the first of which was limited to what could be passed by a simple majority under reconciliation in the Senate. Because of that, phase 1 was not satisfactory to many, impatient for phases 2 and 3 which would fix other key things but be more difficult to get through the Senate and therefore might never pass.

Since the filibuster doesn't serve its intended purpose of driving the majority and minority to negotiate a moderate compromise, given the ultra-partisan obstructionism of Senate democrats, McConnell should go ahead and do the rule change and bury the filibuster for good. Then we can pass comprehensive legislation that works sufficiently for all Republicans, and get the government back on a constitutional basis. We'll own it, since the dems will vote against everything no matter what, but we will have to have the guts to push forward anyway.