So, if I have read this aright:

The Republicans table a bill in Congress designed to embarrass the Democrats when rejected in the Senate, but the Congressional Budget Office sends it back because the sums are massively wrong. Next day, the Republicans (having taken their shoes and socks off this time, belatedly recognising that sums are hard) push the same bill forward only for their own party to scupper it and hang their leader out to dry.

Meanwhile the Democrats laugh themselves stupid (er) in the same way that someone going over a thousand metre waterfall laughs at the misfortune of the other fellow, because the other fellow is in the bow and somehow that's better.

I wonder how the head of the Chinese Sovereign Investment Funds explains that to the Party bosses.