I Wonder Why Dino Rossi Doesn't Want To Talk About the GOP Tax Bill

Last week the House passed the "Tax Cuts and Jobs Act," which cuts corporate tax rates at the expense of teachers, students, the sick, and the elderly. And that's not to mention the $1.5 trillion deficit it creates in the budget. The Senate is expected to move on an equally odious effort next week while a lot of us are doped out on tryptophan. So far McConnell has been met with little real resistance among Republicans—maybe Susan Collins here, maybe McCain because of the extreme contravention of regular order, but a true wall of three has yet to form. (Btw, here's a few things you can do to add some bricks. And one of them involves caroling! But there's no event in Washington yet. Get on it, Washingtonians!)

Anyway! At a well-attended forum in Cashmere, WA, six of the 10 million Democrats running for congress in Washington's 8th district, a seat vacated by Congressman Dave Reichert, jumped at the chance to talk about how cruel and unjust this bill is. Meanwhile, members of the Washington state Republican delegation can't stop talking about how great and jobsy and jobs this job is for jobs—and getting ratioed to all hell on Twitter while they're at it.

But you know who isn't talking about this bill? Congressional hopeful Dino Rossi. He hasn't publicly said one word about whether he'd support the bill if he were to join Washington's giddy Republican delegation, and he hasn't responded to my request for comment, either.

I'm unsure, frankly, why Rossi would be shy about discussing a bill that blows a $1.5 trillion dollar hole in the budget. After all, he describes himself as a "fiscal conservative," and while running for governor in 2003 he constantly (and misleadingly) pointed to the fact that he once wrote a balanced budget as state senator. His objections to the bill should be loud and crystal clear—but not a peep yet.

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