Saturday News: Arch Conservative George Will Calls GOP “Party of the Grotesque”; “Robert Mueller is going after all of it.”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, August 5.

• The GOP has become the party of the grotesque (This is from arch-conservative/right winger George Will, no less…)
• Trump is a one-man assault on the rule of law
• Trump’s Fledgling Presidency Has Already Collapsed (“There is one frightening exception. Trump could regain public standing through the rally-round-the-flag effect that usually occurs following a domestic attack or at the outset of a war.”)
• If this were the Cold War, America would be poised to lose (“Unlike during the 20th century, the United States currently has no concerted effort to fight Russian propaganda.”)
• McCain on Trump-Backed Immigration Bill: ‘I Wouldn’t Do It’
• WH Staffers Pose With Dinesh D’Souza And His New Book On The ‘Fascist’ Left (For more on D’Souza, see Video: Unhinged Extremist, Bigot and Felon Dinesh D’Souza Addresses VA 6th CD GOP Dinner)
• The Senate Seems More Willing To Push Back Against Trump Than The House — Why? (“1. Duh, re-election”)
• The Trump administration is waging war on diversity
• Update: Jeff Sessions Is Still a Retrograde Authoritarian (Yep.)
• Pope Francis Is Taking on the American Religious Right (“Specifically, conservative Catholics.” Go Pope Francis!)
• He’s Not Afraid. He’s Not Going Away.(“Robert Mueller is going after all of it.”)
• Australian TV panel tries to discuss leaked Trump transcripts, can’t stop laughing (“Diplomats and reporters around the world are getting a kick out of the recently released Trump transcripts” Yep, Trump has made the U.S. the laughingstock of everyone else in the world in just a few months. #MAGA!)
• Trump retweets account that traffics in wild conspiracy theories, accused Hillary Clinton of murder (“Stay classy”)
• Mueller Seeks White House Documents on Flynn
• Fox News Host Sent Unsolicited Lewd Text Messages To Colleagues, Sources Say (Fox is the sexual predator/harassment network.)
• The War Against H.R. McMaster (“Rumors have circulated for days that the national-security adviser’s job is on the line, and the pro-Trump media have launched an all-out assault against him.”)
• White supremacists’ smear campaign against H.R. McMaster has officially begun (“Internet trolls and right-wing conspiracy theorists have knives out for Trump’s national security adviser.”)
• Trump Defends McMaster as Conservatives Seek His Dismissal (The NY Times white supremacists and internet trolls – see previous headline – as “nationalist” and “conservative.” WTF, NY Times?!?)
• Republican Senator Is on a Mission to Rescue the Health Care Law
• There’s no such thing as a Trump Democrat (“A new analysis shows that those Obama voters who switched to the president were largely Republican to start with.”)
• Mueller investigation enters new phase
• The End of Martin Shkreli’s Pharma-Bro Adventure
• Trump is on a mission to convert white resentment into a federal agency
• Here Are 6 Things You Wouldn’t Know About the Trump Administration Without Leaks (“Thanks, leakers!”)
• Some journalists can see through Trump’s economic ruse. Time for everyone else to catch up. (“Trump wants credit for economic progress, but the continued recovery has little to do with him”)
• Mark Warner, Senate Intel vice chairman, calls for investigating leaked Trump phone call transcripts (Let’s hope those leaks keep happening, so we know what the corrupt buffoon/”narcissistic maniac” in the White House is up to.)
• EDITORIAL: Kaine shows value of bipartisanship in passing improved GI bill
• State secretary of veterans’ affairs leaving for new job
• The president haunts the race for governor of Virginia (“The race is shaping up to become a miniature referendum on the young administration”)
• Governor’s race turns to Planned Parenthood (And Ed Gillespie is wildly wrong on this, as he is on so many things.)
• Petersburg’s credit outlook improves
• Republican donor from Virginia Beach sues GOP, accusing the party of fraud over failed Obamacare repeal (“Bob Heghmann, 70, filed a lawsuit Thursday in U.S. District Court, saying the national and Virginia Republican parties and some GOP leaders raised millions of dollars in campaign funds while knowing they weren’t going to be able to overturn the law also known as Obamacare.” Hahahahaha.)
• Failure to Repeal Obamacare Results in Virginia Lawsuit Against RNC, RPV, Blackwell, Dunbar, Whitbeck
• Virginia House candidate’s LinkedIn lists college degrees he doesn’t have (Yep, another bonkers/dishonest Republican. Go Jennifer Carroll Foy!!!)
• Jenna Bush Hager is coming to Richmond in support of the Virginia Women’s Monument
• Sheriff’s deputy in Virginia suffers overdose during accidental contact with drug during investigation (“The deputy was treated at a hospital with a drug that reverses the effects of an opiate overdose.”)
• Editorial: We interrupt this complaint about Joe Morrissey to bring you another complaint about Joe Morrissey
• Political theater: Richmond’s ‘Progressive Liberal’ riles them up from inside the wrestling ring
• Two more groups sue to challenge Skiffes line
  (As always, screw you Dominion.)
• Fish kill extended 8 miles downstream of Cloverdale chemical spill, state says (This appalling incident shows why we need tough environmental regulations and penalties.)
• Congress gives final okay to Metro Safety Commission, sending resolution to Trump (How about some serious FUNDING for Metro???)
• WVEC chief meteorologist Jeff Lawson to take time off after having part of his tongue removed
• Tangiermen see hope in a long shot that would reinvent the island (Who’s going to pay for “using dredged material?”)
• Awesome weekend weather; continued cooler and occasionally unsettled next week