The GOP's massive tax overhaul is a monstrosity

In a truly wild and dizzying Friday night and Saturday morning in Washington, Senate Republicans committed collective political suicide by passing a deeply detested tax bill they were still writing seemingly moments before they jammed it through on a party-line vote with no hearings and no meaningful input from a public that hasn't even seen the text of the legislation. As dawn broke Friday over the undrained swamp, it looked like the tax legislation was still in trouble, with Republican...