‘They Should Have Been Working for You’   “Last fall, Nancy Pelosi finally lost control of the radicals in her conference and reluctantly imposed upon the American people a bitter impeachment process that threatened to inflict irreversible damage upon our country,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) writes in the Charlotte Observer. “Congressional Democrats have spent the last five months working for themselves and trying to quench their three-year thirst to reverse the results of the 2016 election, when they should have been working for you.” Click here to read more.

“Our Founding Fathers feared that impeachment would be used as a partisan tool by partisan actors … In the impeachment of President Donald Trump, their fears have been realized.” It’s time to raise “the simple majority threshold in the House of Representatives to approve impeachment articles,” Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) writes in USA Today.

“House Speaker Nancy Pelosi apparently made tiny tears in her copy of President Trump’s State of the Union address — so that her speech-ripping moment could go off without a hitch. As Trump introduced cancer-stricken radio host Rush Limbaugh — who received the Medal of Freedom during the speech — Pelosi could be seen grabbing the pages off the table,” Tamar Lapin reports for the New York Post.

“The number of Americans who applied for unemployment benefits at the end of January fell close to a postrecession low, signaling the U.S. labor market is still rock solid . . . Initial jobless claims declined by 15,000 to 202,000 in the seven days ended Feb. 1,” Jeffry Bartash reports for MarketWatch. MIDDLE-CLASS BOOM: “Record economic optimism under Trump, better than Reagan, Clinton, and Obama”