Bill Scher

A Trump endorsement fail

The Problem with Making “Affordability” The Problem New tax cut proposals from Senators Cory Booker and Chris Van Hollen abandon effective progressive policies. They’re not alone.

New tax cut proposals from Senators Cory Booker and Chris Van Hollen may sell in a campaign year, but they abandon effective progressive policies, @billscher.bsky.social writes.

The Problem with Making “Affordability” The Problem New tax cut proposals from Senators Cory Booker and Chris Van Hollen abandon effective progressive policies. They’re not alone.

“The Problem with Making ‘Affordability’ The Problem” — my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social look at how the one-word mantra is tempting Democrats down the path of tax cuts

washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/13/t...

Democrats are trouncing Republicans in state elections since Trump took office Voter turnout in state elections over the last 14 months has Republicans concerned as the midterms approach.

"We’re the party of low propensity voters now" -- anonymous senior GOP operative

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

I know you're concerned about the war and how it impact gas prices but please remember that what you pay at the pump increases the profits of oil companies I am good at politics

Biggest cost of the Iran war will likely be hit to the global economy, not military hardware.
Every dollar of oil market premiums adds ~$100M/day to global costs. Then there are spiking fertilizer prices, insurance, growing potential for shortages.

"we must decide whether an employer can fire someone simply for being homosexual or transgender. The answer is clear ... An employer who fires an individual merely for being gay or transgender defies the law." -- Justice Neil Gorsuch, writing for a 6-3 SCOTUS majority

Rep. Kevin Hern (R-OK) announced for Senate & leaves open #OK01 (Tulsa), which was Trump +22 in 2024

Last 10 US House members to say they're retiring or seeking other office have all been Republicans.

Last D retirement: Julia Brownley (CA) & Steny Hoyer (MD) Jan. 8 (Delegate Norton of DC Jan. 27)

You are forgiven if you thought that Donald J. Trump is a leader

Exclusive | Justice Department Probes Iran’s Use of Binance to Evade Sanctions The investigation is focused on money flowing through the crypto platform to a network that backs terror groups, including Yemen’s Houthi militants.

"The Justice Department is investigating Iran’s use of Binance to evade U.S. sanctions ... The inquiry puts the world’s largest crypto exchange back in the legal spotlight after its founder ... received a pardon from President Trump in October."

www.wsj.com/finance/curr...

Cornyn gets defensive with NBC News reporter

Three asterisks to an otherwise decent CPI report:

1) This was before the economic fallout from the war in Iran
2) The very favorable data imputation in the October report (due to the govt shutdown) unwinds after March.
3) Core PCE is running much firmer than CPI, and that wedge widened in Feb

Endorsed John Kerry for president in 2004!

If you’re looking for someone to blame for the coarsening of political discourse, blame Woodrow Wilson for I-Said-Good-Afternoon-ing the boss of the New Jersey Democratic Party machine

4/ Ok, so what ARE the goals? It seems, primarily, destroying lots of missiles and boats and drone factories.

But the question that stumped them: what happens when you stop bombing and they restart production?

They hinted at more bombing. Which is, of course, endless war.

My lord all we’ve heard from hawks over the last 20 years was there are no Iranian pragmatists so diplomacy is futile. Now these chucklenuts decided the pragmatists were there all along we just have to murder their leader & bomb them to oblivion so they will emerge from the rubble.

Because you sickos love this, here's the updated flip count in legislative seats since the start of Trump's second term, following tonight's Dem win in New Hampshire:

Democrats: 28

Republicans: 0

docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

With all of the early vote reporting in the #GA14 (Trump+37) special election:

Shawn Harris (D)- 43.4%
Clay Fuller (R)- 32.3%
Colton Moore (R)- 8.8%
14 Others- 15.5%

This one is almost certainly going to a runoff, but great start for the Dems in NW Georgia.

Decision Desk HQ projects Clayton Fuller and Shawn Harris to advance to a runoff in the special election for Georgia's 14th congressional district.

#DecisionMade: 8:03 pm ET

Follow live results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/603734

An Iranian guest commentator said Trump is fighting for “the Epstein Class”

I’m watching the @aljazeera.com stream and they’re all over Lindsey Graham’s we’re-in-it-for-the-oil comments

A related speculative thought

Per NYT www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u... Khamenei "preferred to stay in place and become a martyr" than go "into hiding"

So it wasn't hard to kill him but it made his death harder to cause regime collapse. He made dying for the cause more glorious than quitting.

Vance or Rubio in ’28? It’s a Question Trump Can’t Stop Asking The president has lately extolled the secretary of state amid the focus on foreign policy, but many see the vice president as a better heir to the MAGA empire.

"Vance’s supporters have alleged in recent months that right-wing influencers are being paid to criticize the vice president online."

www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

@billscher.bsky.social: US War Hawks helped instigate the war of 1812 because they were too young to remember history and "believed plucking Canada from the British Empire would be a cakewalk." Youth is no excuse, however, for Trump, Netanyahu "and their hype squads..."

Thank you!!!

Many politicians are willing to do the easy thing today and leave the hard thing for someone else tomorrow, but Trump is unusually disinterested in near-term and mid-term consequences

Thank you!

Cocky Iran Hawks Forget the History of Blowback Iran hawks like Lindsey Graham promise that the bombing will be quick and decisive. History suggests otherwise.

“the Taliban kept fighting for two decades until they…regained power…Iran is a government similar to Afghanistan’s Taliban regime except…it’s much bigger and more deeply entrenched …even if it did fall, we have no reason to believe its followers would vaporize” washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/10/i...

"Starmer’s MPs sound positively buoyant to be at odds with Blair, as large sections of the Labour Party agitate for a move to the left."

Cocky Iran Hawks Forget the History of Blowback Iran hawks like Lindsey Graham promise that the bombing will be quick and decisive. History suggests otherwise.

“Cocky Iran Hawks Forget the History of Blowback” — my latest for @washingtonmonthly.com

washingtonmonthly.com/2026/03/10/i...