Virginia News Headlines: Sunday Morning

Here are a few Virginia (and national) news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 24. *Sequester's big gamble: How bad will the pain be? *Governors frustrated with gridlock, sequestration (Well, duh, stop sending ideologically extremist teahadist types to Washington, DC, and they'll actually be able to get stuff done there!) *Senators near a deal on background checks for most private gun sales (That's the no-brainer part, now what about restricting high-capacity magazines, etc?) *Woodward Misses The Mark *Va. Senate sends sweeping road legislation to McDonnell *Virginia lawmakers approve sweeping transportation plan *Deal ends long gridlock on transportation ("Gov. Bob McDonnell, who has demanded for weeks that lawmakers send him a comprehensive solution, is poised to succeed where his Democratic and Republican predecessors have fallen short for two decades.") *Editorial: When the state doesn;t trust its own papers ("Gov. McDonnell needs to tell his party enough is enough in its expensive, alienating quest to root out phantom voter fraud.") *Bolling's statement on passage of transportation bill *Democrats claim win, GOP says not so fast *McCartney: Virginia transportation deal shows virtues of compromise *McDonnell leans on Democrats for legacy legislation *Cuccinelli opinion could jeopardize deals on Medicaid, roads (Apparently, they figured away around Cuckoo's opinion...) *Schapiro: Jittery over cuts, Va. pols still love to spend *Editorial: Teamwork needed to avoid sequester ("Local congressmen must move beyond insistence that the deficit can shrink with budget cuts alone.") *Virginia Beach Del. Iaquinto won't seek re-election *Virginia's solution politics *Is the Post 'pro-gay'? (I'm not sure whether to laugh or cry about this one. Since when is supporting the equality of all Americans "pro" a certain group of Americans? Also, since when should newspapers need to care about the opinions of bigots?)