by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, March 5. Also check out Attorney General Jeff Sessions/Forrest Gump (Kate McKinnon) chatting with strangers (Octavia Spencer, Leslie Jones, Kyle Mooney, Aidy Bryant, Beck Bennett) at a bus stop.
- Trump’s Obama obsession (Obama was everything Trump can’t even imagine ever being.)
- Many dozens of supporters gather across the country to March 4 Trump (“They were hoping for overwhelming turnout. They got something else.” #FAIL)
- Russia is the slow burn of the Trump administration, and it’s not going away
- Obama spokesman calls Trump’s wiretapping claim ‘simply false’ (Trump is insane.)
- Trump accuses Obama of ‘Nixon/Watergate’ wiretap — but offers no evidence (Also insane is anyone who believes Trump about anything.)
- Leaving the Paris agreement would be a gratuitous thumb in everyone’s eye (“Staying in the landmark agreement is costless, while leaving would spark sustained global outrage.”)
- Mad Trump, Happy W. (“The emperor of chaos was able to muster 60 minutes 14 seconds of non-embarrassing behavior before we were all ensnared once more in the bizarre and venal Russian subplot of the Trump presidency and another Twitter onslaught against Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi for having met with Russians.”)
- President Trump’s Island Mentality (“The repeated emphasis on ‘America First’ worries allies, threatens global trade and hurts immigrants.”)
- Trump Goes on Bizarre Twitter Rant, Accuses Obama of Wiretapping His Phones (Have I mentioned recently that Trump is insane?)
- Trump’s Secret: Lie Bigly (“Research suggests people are more easily persuaded by apparent sincerity and wishful thinking than by actual facts”)
- Donald Trump and the media: Can journalism escape this deadly paradox and get its groove back?
- The Alienation of the White Working Classes (“Young, white, wage-earning voters are increasingly detached from religious and civic institutions. What does this mean for America’s political future?”)
- What to Make of Donald Trump’s Early-Morning Wiretap Tweets
- ‘Definitely not Paul Ryan’: SNL brilliantly shreds gutless GOP with search for Trump-stopping hero ‘TBD’
- ‘Run, Jeffy, run!’: SNL’s Kate McKinnon plays Jeff Sessions as Forrest Gump in hilarious show opener
- Don Flattery: Opioid addiction epidemic requires even more work
- Tale of a bill: Hacking a way through the legislative jungle of Virginia’s General Assembly
- Schapiro: Va. Republicans on defense over redistricting (“as long as the redistricting issue is before the courts, Republicans face a peril. Judges could rule against them, forcing adjusted boundaries and, in the process, creating districts hostile to the GOP.”)
- Gillespie dominates on Stewart’s home turf (At the PW County GOP’s annual dinner, Ed Gillespie won 62.3% while PW County Board Chair Corey Stewart won only 24.5% of the straw poll vote. Couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy. Heh.)
- Corey Stewart holds ‘End Sanctuary Cities’ rally on Capitol Square amid counterprotest
- Editorial: For Dave Brat, it’s still all about the money (I didn’t think it was humanly possible for the Republican Times-Disgrace editorial board to get even more absurd/ridiculous/wrong, but it has…)
- Editorial: Trump opened the door for Democrat Perriello (More idiocy from the RTD, bizarrely comparing Tom Perriello to Donald Trump.)
- 200 turn out for pro-Trump rally in Virginia Beach while silent protesters watch (200? LOL, whatever.)
- Dominion’s coal ash plans face local opposition
- Mark Obenshain column: More voters than residents? McAuliffe doesn’t seem to care (Obenshain keeps pushing the Big Lie of widespread, in-person “voter fraud” in order to justify his party’s racist, unAmerican voter suppression strategy.)
- Delegate Jackson Miller announces run for Clerk of the Court in Prince William County (Dems need to kick this guy’s far-right-wing butt. We also need to win his House of Delegates seat.)
- Video: Mt. Vernon Dems 2017 Mardi Gras Party, Straw Poll (Won by Ralph Northam, Justin Fairfax)
- Fairfax police have still not identified two sets of human remains found Thursday
- Chilly again today with less wind; temperatures climb starting tomorrow
