SIGNED – AT 11:18 A.M. ET:   The president signed the tax-reform bill in the Oval Office this morning, making it into law.  It caps a year that began unsteadily, and ends in triumph.  From the Daily Mail: 

President Donald Trump signed his tax cut bill on Friday morning in the Oval Office with little fanfare in his final order of business before the start of his Christmas holiday away from the White House.

Calling it 'the biggest tax cut, the biggest reform of all time' he said 'the numbers will speak' for themselves when taxpayers start to see results.

'I think it's selling itself,' Trump said of the landmark legislation. 'It's becoming very popular. You'll see something on February 1 when they open up the paycheck.'

Rather than holding an elaborate signing ceremony in early January, he said he rushed to turn the bill into law before December 25 to honor a pledge to make tax cuts his Christmas present to the American people.

'I didn't want you folks to say that I wasn't keeping my promise,' he told the press. 'I'm keeping my promise. I'm signing the bill before Christmas.'

And in a holiday truce with the journalists he loves to hate, he distributed official signing pens to some of them. 

'Many of you have worked very fairly, and we appreciate that,' Trump said. 

COMMENT:  The Dems don't appear to have learned anything.  They're already describing the tax bill as the greatest calamity in the history of the Universe, and any other Universes they may find. 

The bill has to produce, and I think it will.  Already some companies are starting to give unexpected bonuses to employees.  That's the right spirit.

December 22, 2017