Krauthammer: Tax Reform Issue Showing ‘How Weak Congress Has Become’

‘It’s become habituated to look into the White House for leadership’

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BAIER: "It does always seem, Charles, that we're one election away from dealing with the big ticket items that the country has to deal with. If there's anybody who could get it across the finish line, you would think that the 'Art of the Deal' guy might be able to." 

KRAUTHAMMER: “That’s the great irony here, you're always one election away if you get divided government. So here we have the united government, or at least same party controlling everything, with a lot of momentum. Beginning of every new presidency, they always give him the benefit of the doubt. And the great irony is that Congress has become so dependent on    following the lead of a president in general, allowing its powers to be usurped. One presidency after another. This is not problem of one party but it’s simply — now that it’s in control, it can’t get its act together. And unless you get strong presidential leadership, president saying next week, in his quasi-State of the Union address, saying, 'This is what I want on tax reform,' and leading on it — that would be the decisive event —  and in the absence of that, it's showing how weak Congress has become and how it’s become habituated to look into the White House for leadership. It’s not getting it. It’s not going anywhere.”

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