Govt. Report: We wasted a ton of money in Iraq.

The payroll company ADP reports that the US created 198,000 private sector jobs in February.

So is Menendez toast or the Daily Caller? Here’s our scorecard of what happened over the last 24 hours.

Note: The Daily Caller said yesterday they were going back to verify their story. So presumably they’ll be back sometime today with either a big thumbs up or an awkward silence. So we’ll be watching for that.

Here’s a head scratcher for you, via notices that House GOP leaders just sent out.

Due to the threat of inclement weather Republicans have moved their big House vote on funding the government forward to Wednesday late morning/early afternoon — or as a meteorologist might say, right into the heaviest part of the snow storm. Read More

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A lot of recent reporting on sequestration and expiring government funding legislation reflects the notion that a government shutdown is more or less off the table — that because the White House doesn’t want one and Republican leaders don’t want one, a ’95 style shutdown isn’t a real possibility.

Both of those things are true. Several key players in this negotiation would like to avoid a shutdown. But as we’ve been trying to reinforce in our reporting, that doesn’t settle the question. Read More

White House cancels tours due to sequester.

Is Jeb Bush already caving on reflipping back to a path to citizenship? It would be less than 24 hours as the right-wing standard bearer on ‘amnesty’.

The Daily Caller says today they’re working to verify their Menendez/prostitute story.

This is turning into a big Godzilla vs. Mothra type battle between Daily Caller and the Post. We’ll have a piece up shortly with a run down of each back and forth over the course of the last 24 hours.

Rubio says not to worry, we can bring Jeb around on citizenship.

Lindsey Graham, on the other hand, says essentially, WTF, Jeb?