Tuesday News: Corporate Tool RoboRubio Has Another Programming Glitch; I-66 Tolling Plan Might Survive After All?

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, February 9.

• New Hampshire Rivals Turn Up the Heat as a Snowstorm Hits
• Marco Rubio has another repeat glitch in N.H. (There’s seriously something wrong with this dude.)
• Donald Trump’s foul mouth is just a cover for his ignorance (“As in many other things, he swears to steal the spotlight, not because he’s an honest broker.”)
• What Marco Rubio’s robotic debate performance reveals (“The GOP senator comes off as a young candidate in too much of a hurry with his debate answers.” That’s about the most charitable you can be towards this empty suit.)
• Trump calls Cruz a ‘pussy’ (OK, I despise Ted Cruz with a burning passion, but Trump is a misogynstic, no-class pig.)
• Clinton responds to rumors about a staff shake-up (Clinton: “Yeah somebody showed that to me. I have no idea what they’re talking about or who they are talking to. We’re going to take stock but it’s going to be the campaign that I’ve got. I’m very confident in the people that I have”)
• Gay Man to Rubio: ‘Why Do You Want to Put Me Back in the Closet?’ (Homophobe and idiot Rubio tells the guy, “you should have the law changed by a legislature.” Except that, of course, the law already HAS changed, as gay marriage is legal in the entire United States. Is Rubio really this clueless?)
• David Brooks has lost all control: This is how the far right stole the GOP — and they are not giving it back (“For years, GOP intellectuals rationalized for the loons. Now it’s too late for the men of ideas to regain authority”)
• Can Marco Rubio be saved? Conservative media tries to clean up his massive blunder, but he’s been exposed as robotic establishment stooge (And stooge of the big corporations, Koch brothers, top 0.1%, etc.)
• Could Jeb-mentum be real?: The GOP’s “low-energy” candidate veers left — and New Hampshire loves it (“Jeb Bush goes ‘Hot Tub Time Machine’ Republican — soft on climate, immigration and Obama — and draws big crowds”)
• The Unctuous Genius of Ted Cruz (“How the candidate turned naked careerism into a winning campaign strategy.”)
• GOP Candidates Agree To Discuss Climate Change With Florida Mayors (How about proposing conservative, market-oriented SOLUTIONS, like putting a price on carbon?!?)
• New Hampshire poised to deny GOP its Trump alternative
• I-66 tolling bill hits snag in Virginia Senate (“Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s plan to create HOT lanes on Interstate 66 inside the Capital Beltway got a bit of a boost in the Senate on Monday when a subcommittee recommended killing a bill that would block tolling of the existing lanes.” Good.)
• Randy Forbes switching districts in 2016 congressional election
• What the departures of two Va. congressmen say about the state of their party (“Reps. Scott Rigell and Robert Hurt spent six years torn between GOP leadership and hard-liners.” Even relatively normal, conservative Republicans can’t stand the Teabaggers.)
• Va. ballots to list party nominations under bill passed by state Senate (“The measure would not apply to non-partisan offices such as school board, even if parties endorse candidates.”)
• Editorial: Forbes makes move to save his job
• House panel agrees to work on bill banning most abortions after 20 weeks
• Senate committee passes bills to withhold names of public employees
• Editorial: Virginia senate’s treatment of the press boggles the mind (Not surprising coming from a horrible human being like Tommy Norment.)
• Portsmouth Mayor Kenny Wright announces he will run again
• Coast Guard identifies oil in refuge and river as fuel oil; source still unknown (“Non-toxic, yellow or green runoff may be seen in the Potomac and northern Virginia wetlands.”)
• Bill to repeal pipeline surveying law killed in Senate committee
• Sloppy winter storm today, then temperatures crash through the weekend