Steven T. Dennis

Todd Blanche briefly puts head in his hands after critical meeting with the two holdout senators who have the power to defeat his nomination, Lisa Murkowski and Bill Cassidy.

HIGH DRAMA IN THE SENATE. There are 50 no votes on proceeding to reconciliation. Murkowski, Rick Scott, Mike Lee have not voted. One more no vote stalls the bill. Collins voted aye. Tillis, Ron Johnson and Rand Paul have voted no.

USA somehow managed to end up at the end of the worst pandemic in 100 years still deciding not to ... have guaranteed sick leave.

Sign in New Jersey. They seem to take their parking laws seriously? 90 days community service?!

Angie Craig getting a boatload of crypto campaign air support and going down in flames is the kind of thing that can change politics. If Clarity fails, it might be why. Remember when Eric Cantor lost a primary and Rs lurched to the right on immigration?

I’m really surprised we haven’t seen more billionaires spending, say, a billion dollars on an election. The fact that they haven’t seems to be proof that markets are not efficient.

I am taking suggestions on family-friendly things to do in New Jersey.

One area where Bill Cassidy is aligned with Todd Blanche — and Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski are not — is a desire to ban abortion drugs from the mail.

52 years ago, Nixon left office at his lowest point - after the party primaries and before the general election - with an approval rating of 24%. His own party leadership pushed him out. Very hard to imagine that happening with today’s GOP.

Trump made vastly more money in crypto last year than all of the presidential salaries since the beginning of the republic combined. He made more from crypto than the salaries of every member of Congress over the past 15 years *combined*. It’s yielded a collective shrug from his fellow Republicans.

The Senate passed a bill to end the minting of the penny (which has already been ended) while allowing retailers to round up or down. Marginally helps retailers by setting a unified national standard.

Feels like everything in life is “pay x dollars to avoid these stupid ads” adtech. So much talent wasted on making our lives worse for a few bucks.

I wonder how much of this is the ~$200B effort to deport large numbers of workers. Working age immigrants likely have an extremely high labor force participation rate?