Sick, dead, or destitute

Some big GOP donors, such as the Koch brothers, are going to be really annoyed if the GOP dominated Congress can’t pass a tax cut (for the rich).

I’m not sure if this means these super-rich dudes are going to close their wallets or will spend their hundreds of millions to back more conservative primary challengers (to the delight of Steve Bannon).

If it is the first case it might help Democrats (except for the 20 ways the GOP is stealing the vote). In the second it means Congress will likely end up with more extremists. Either way many of the existing GOP Congresscritters will be gone. The upheaval will mean both Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan will be out of the leadership.

Commenter Snud responded first:

So if they don’t make the majority of Americans sick, dead, or destitute… they won’t be re-elected.

I doubt I need to spell it out, but I’ll do so anyway. The Koch brothers and their 1% or 0.1% colleagues are desperate for that tax cut so that the gov’t doesn’t have enough money to maintain the social safety net. This is all about ranking with those at the top saying we got ours and we’re going to make quite sure there is no way you can get yours.