Thomas Barthold, chief of staff to the Joint Committee on Taxation, is Washington’s biggest loser of the week, and the week just started.

Barthold was forced to sit through more than six hours of “debate” on the Republican tax cut bill, which lawmakers tried desperately hard to make entertaining for some home audience they could only hope were watching, but probably weren’t.

Recommended Stories

Democrats scramble to investigate Trump’s tax returns before losing power

The most important tax reform bill in modern history

The mortgage interest deduction is cronyism at its worst