

“You’re either going to take a massive tax increase or you’re going to decrease taxes. So for conservatives like myself, that’s a no-brainer,” Chaffetz said.
Ah! “No-brainer” makes a lot of sense to me. That should really be the GOP’s tagline.
But the bottom line is that Mike Lee and all the other Republicans aren’t responding because this will be out of the news cycle in 3 days so they’ll never have to answer for it if they can just avoid making further headlines.
That last paragraph… Ooof.
I knew Miller was a nihilistic misanthrope who would take as much power as he could, but I expected Bondi, Noem and Wiles to be nearly as craven to demonstrate their value to Trump and carve out their own fiefdoms. I didn’t expect them to cede it without so much as a shrug.