by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, October 21.
- Exxon’s Climate Cover-Up Should Be Investigated By DOJ, Tobacco Prosecutor Says
- Ryan willing to run for House speaker — under conditions (Gotta love it, the Republicans’ potential savior is pathological liar, Ayn-Rand-worshipping Paul Ryan.)
- Syria’s president flies to Moscow to meet with Putin
- After Claiming His Brother ‘Kept Us Safe,’ Jeb Bush Tries To Blame Bill Clinton For 9/11 (“JEB” coming completely unhinged. Pathetic.)
- What’s in store for federal pay and benefits if Ryan becomes speaker of the House? A likely hit.
- Now they’ll mansplain Benghazi: How the GOP’s raging Fox News id might backfire, again
- Biden Says He Didn’t Oppose Raid That Killed Bin Laden (Whoa, what?!? That’s a COMPLETELY different story than he’s been telling for years now! Hmmmmmmm…)
- “Brutal, or whatever”: The disastrous Bush Doctrine lives on in Jeb’s campaign (“Jeb’s foreign policy team shows how GOP foreign policy thinking hasn’t been changed by George W. Bush’s failures”)
- The House Benghazi committee unravels (They are today’s version of Joe McCarty and the “Red” baiters of the 1950s.)
- Paul Ryan’s Demands for House Speaker Race Meet Early Resistance
- Rep. Scott Rigell presents his plan to stop majority of sequestration cuts (“The Virginia Beach Republican’s proposal would avoid three-fourths of the mandatory cuts by raising $760 billion over 10 years with a long list of changes that includes higher income taxes, increasing Medicare premiums for the wealthiest Americans, reducing Medicare payments to some providers, allowing inflation-related increases for customs and airport security fees, and trimming farm subsidies.” Interesting.)
- Jim Webb Exits Democratic Primary, Leaves Door Open For Independent Bid (Almost everything he said in his press conference was wrong, particularly his false equivalency bull****, his claims about the Democrats supposedly moving left – why, because of the Confederate flag and gun safety, the latter of which is supported by 80%+ Americans? What. Ever.)
- Jim Webb Didn’t Have What It Takes (“The former Virginia senator wanted to be president. He just didn’t want to work for it.”)
- Jim Webb and the Curse of the 2008 Vice Presidential Candidates
- Editorial: Webb abandons Democratic bid (“He writes very well, much better indeed than the hacks who inflict books on the public. We look forward to reading more by, not about, him.”)
- McAuliffe: Budget continuing resolutions like “a slow-moving sequestration”
- A grand bargain proposed on legislative ethics, and compensation (I’ve been advocating this for years.)
- Judicial Ethics Advisory Committee re-established
- UVa student Martese Johnson files $3 million suit against ABC
- Franklin County adds its voice to resolutions seeking state role in Mountain Valley Pipeline
- 21st District Senate candidates make their final forum pitches
- A big player doesn’t always get its way — even Dominion, even in Virginia (“When William Barnhardt, owner of Willaby’s Restaurant in White Stone, asked the State Corporation Commission to stop work on a replacement transmission line across the Rappahannock River, the SCC said yes.”)
- Warmer water threatens the bay
- Fairfax, Montgomery push for relief for American Legion Bridge users (Unless/until they address sprawl, they’re not going to solve this problem no matter how much money – and asphalt – they throw at it.)
- With big TV ad buy in Va. House of Delegates races, Republicans zero in on I-66 toll plan (WILDLY misleading ads by Craig Parisot and Danny Vargas.)
- Va. lawmaker didn’t respond to FEC warnings about illegal contributions (Yep, it’s our old pal “Sideshow Bob” again. Vote Don Shaw instead!)
- Mayor, administrator vie to succeed popular Colgan in Senate
- Virginia Beach council opts to keep light-rail funds in budget despite shortfall
- Editorial: Preserve, don’t develop, Fones Cliffs (Absolutely!)
- Virginia Teacher of the Year calls fifth-grade her dream job
- Four candidates for Watkins seat meet in forum at VCU (“With two weeks left before Election Day, distinctions on health care, energy development, and the minimum wage became clearer between the two major party candidates in a four-way race to win a 10th District Senate seat that is critical to the balance of power in the General Assembly.”)
- Forget fall. Highs in the 70s again today and tomorrow.
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