The story of how Republican Sen. Bob Corker was cajoled into supporting his party's deficit-busting reverse-Robin-Hood tax bill appears to be a bit more interesting than we first thought. Longtime Bob Corker watchers naturally presumed that Bob Corker switched from having principled objections to the bill to an emphatic yes vote now because he simply caved to party pressure—part of the now-rote process through which a senator like Corker or Rubio puffs up their populist or deficit-hawk or party independence for a few days before, like clockwork, doing the opposite.
But it now appears that Corker may have indeed gotten something concrete in exchange for his vote. He may have gotten his own personal tax cut....
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2017/12/17/1725254/-Sen-Corker-denies-knowledge-of-tax-bill-change-enriching-himself-saying-he-hasn-t-read-the-bill
