If John Boehner put the Senate’s tax bill on the House floor for an up-or-down vote, it’s overwhelmingly likely it will pass. Members of Congress like Tim Scott have said as much. Another conservative House Republican, Representative Tim Scott, a first-term congressman, said that such a measure “could pass the House,” according to Scott’s spokesman. [...]

I have a deficit reduction item that does as much as, say, reducing Congressional and White House budgets, the first item on the Bowles-Simpson “destroy the country in the nastiest way possible” plan. We could let people who identify as Americans become Americans. In recent days, the DREAM Act, which would offer a path to [...]