Econ 101: President Biden used a tepid January jobs report to call for quick action on his $1.9 trillion economic stimulus bill.

  “I believe the American people are looking right now to their government for help to do our job, to not let them down,” Biden said. “So I’m going to act, and I’m going to act fast.”

  The economy added only 49,000 jobs in January and employment is still minus 10 million jobs from pre-pandemic levels. 

  Republicans are already claiming that Biden is abandoning his pledge of legislative unity, but the President said, “If I have to choose between getting help right now to Americans who are hurting so badly and getting bogged down in a lengthy negotiation or compromising on a bill that’s up to the crisis, that’s an easy choice. I’m going to help the American people who are hurting now.” Cancelled: The Fox Business Channel yesterday cancelled the show of its most popular evening host, Lou Dobbs, in an apparent effort to defend lawsuits brought by election technology companies. 

  His show had become a platform for absurd claims of election fraud.

  Dobbs was the most popular evening host for Fox Business, a moneymaker. Nonetheless, the company claimed, “Plans have been in place to launch new formats as appropriate postelection, including on Fox Business.” The network said. “This is part of those planned changes.”

  Television networks don’t cancel their most popular shows for vague reasons like “new formats.” 

  The 75-year-old Dobbs had been a CNN anchor and after being lured to Fox, began hosting for the right-wing network in 2011.  He’s been a big voice in favor of Donald Trump. 

Unrepentant: Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene yesterday called the Democrats and 11 Republicans who stripped her of her congressional committee assignments “morons” who merely gave her more free time. She said, “If I was on a committee, I’d be wasting my time because my conservative values wouldn’t be heard and neither would my district’s.”

  She blamed the press. “You know what the media does?” Greene asked. “You’re doing a really good job at addicting our nation to hate, teaching people to hate people like me, President Trump. And then on the right, it’s the same way teaching people to hate AOC, Ilhan Omar, Nancy Pelosi.”

  She said the Republican Party still belongs to Donald Trump. “The party is his. It doesn’t belong to anybody else.”

Tracking Insurrection: As the Senate trial of President Trump approaches, digital tracking of cellphones shows a direct correlation between the crowd at his January 6^th speech and the mob that invaded the Capitol.

  Charlie Warzel and Stuart A. Thompson write for The NY Times that, “About 40 percent of the phones tracked near the rally stage on the National Mall during the speeches were also found in and around the Capitol during the siege — a clear link between those who’d listened to the president and his allies and then marched on the building.”

  Trump is accused of inciting the insurrection. On the Times website, an animation shows green dots representing cellphone signals migrating from Trump’s speech at the Ellipse to the Capitol.

  The writers were given the data by a source who was as upset about the existence of the data itself as he was about the insurrection. They say, “The data presented here is a bird’s-eye view of an event that posed a clear and grave threat to our democracy. But it tells a second story as well: One of a broken, surreptitious industry in desperate need of regulation, and of a tacit agreement we’ve entered into that threatens our individual privacy. None of this data should ever have been collected.”

Say it Louder: A 40-year-old Pennsylvania woman who used a bullhorn to shout “take this building!” and give instructions during the Capitol insurrection has been arrested. 

  Rachel Powell faces charges of obstruction, depredation of government property, entering restricted space without authority and violent entry or disorderly conduct. She was caught on videos wearing a black jacket and pink hat while using a bullhorn to instruct rioters on how to maneuver inside the Capitol.

The Obit Page: Christopher Plummer, who played the widowed father Capt. Von Trapp in the 1965 movie version of “The Sound of Music,” has died at home in Connecticut at age 91.

  Plummer had been a stage actor in New York and London in the 1950s. In a film, television, and stage career that lasted 50 years, he won an Oscar as well as Emmy and Tony awards. 

  Plummer was always unhappy that he was not allowed to sing “Edelweiss” in “The Sound of Music” — the voice of a professional singer was dubbed in. 

Bad Act: Donald Trump, who evidently believes he’s not only the greatest president, but also a gifted actor, quit the Screen Actors Guild in a huff.

  On the news that he was the subject of a SAG disciplinary hearing, Trump wrote to the union’s President Gabrielle Carteris that, “I no longer wish to be associated with your union.”

  He said of the disciplinary hearing, “Who cares!”

  The SAG-AFTRA Board voted in late January to find probable cause that Trump violated the organization’s constitution by threatening journalists and inciting the Capitol insurrection. 

  Trump wrote, “I’m very proud of my work on movies such as ‘Home Alone 2,’ ‘Zoolander’ and ‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’; and television shows including ‘The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,’ ‘Saturday Night Live,’ and of course, one of the most successful shows in television history, ‘The Apprentice’ — to name just a few!” 

  Sadly, he was never able to act like a president. 

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