A conservative Senator opposes the tax bill?!

Ron Johnson (R-Drama Club) claimed yesterday that he opposed the current version of the tax bill making its way through the Senate.  Traditionally, we denote a legislator's party and constituency with a parenthetical statement including a party designator, followed by a hyphen, followed by the state the legislator represents.  I am listing Johnson as (R-Drama Club) because back when the Senate was debating its "repeal-and-replace" proposals, Johnson, along with Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and Rand Paul, insisted on performing a kind of conservative, performance art theater.  It traditionally goes as follows:

I can't vote for this!  It's not conservative enough!  You're a sellout and I'm more pure than you!  Give me concessions or I'll vote no, and support your primary challenger!

OK, that was a concession, and it wasn't really enough, but I'll grudgingly accept it on the condition that you give me more later!  You're still not conservative enough, you cuckservative, you!  I'm still angry and nobody will ever be more conservative than me!

There is another script with an alternate ending.  It goes as follows:

I can't vote for this!  It's not conservative enough!  You're a sellout and I'm more pure than you!  Give me concessions or I'll vote no, and support your primary challenger!

That bill failed because it wasn't conservative enough and I opposed it all along because I'm a true conservative and you're not, you sellout cuckservative!

It's... tiresome.  And annoying.  At the end of the process, those little drama club twerps weren't going to be the ones who killed "repeal-and-replace."  They just wanted to posture.  It's all theater for them.  If a bill can pass, they go through their theatrics, just like the House Freedom Caucus, to get as many concessions as possible before bill passage.  If the bill fails, they hated it all along because it wasn't conservative enough.  They weren't going to be the ones who killed the bill, though.

Right now, the tax bill is in an uncertain stage.  Rand Paul voted no on the budget resolution.  Pure posturing.  The resolution passed with 51 votes.  He wouldn't have been the one to bring it down to 49, but he was happy to be the one GOP vote against the resolution.  Now, Ron Johnson wants in on that posturing action.  Neither will kill a tax cut.  This is the drama club doing its drama club thing.  That's it.  That's all.  Stop listening to these little twerps.  They derive their power, such as it is, from people paying attention to them.  So...





Could the bill fail?  Sure.  It might!  The GOP is incompetent and in shambles, and part of this strategy is that if the bill is destined to fail, there is great drama to be had in having opposed it all along, but Ron Johnson won't be the guy to kill it.  Neither will Rand Paul.

Any day now, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee should be looking for ways to get in on the drama.  Unless they forgot to pay their Drama Club dues.

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