by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, March 23.
- US officials: Info suggests Trump associates may have coordinated with Russians
- London attacker British-born and once under extremist probes, British leader says
- Read President Trump’s Interview With TIME on Truth and Falsehoods (Is Truth dead? Trump and his supporters are working 24/7 to kill it, that’s for sure.)
- Paul Manafort Once Worked to ‘Benefit the Putin Government’: Report
- Britain police say attacker acted alone; 7 arrested in sweeps
- Donald Trump Jr called ‘a disgrace’ for tweet goading London mayor Sadiq Khan (I just can’t decide if Donald Jr. is Uday or Qusay…)
- Blow: Birth of the Biggest Lie (“Donald Trump owes Barack Obama and the American people an apology for his vituperative lie that Obama committed a felony by wiretapping Trump Tower. It was specious, libelous and reckless…The Trump presidency is a corruption that flows from corruption. It is damned by its own damned lies.”)
- Schiff: There is now ‘more than circumstantial evidence’ of Trump-Russia collusion
- GOP health-care bill hangs in balance as conservatives demand changes
- Gorsuch’s big fat lie (“To pretend the judiciary isn’t ideological, as the Supreme Court nominee did, is naive and irresponsible.” The bottom line is that this is a stolen seat, so every Democrat should block the nomination.)
- Nunes claims some Trump transition messages were intercepted (“The move gave cover to the White House but was rebuked by top Democrats.” OK, Nunes now has zero credibility.)
- Right-Wing Media Falsely Claim Rep. Nunes Vindicated Trump’s Wiretap Lie (“Trump Was Not Referring To ‘Incidental’ Legal Surveillance” Lies upon lies upon lies…)
- Federal staffers panicked by conservative media attacks (“A spate of stories in Breitbart and other outlets have singled out individual career employees, questioning their loyalty to Trump.”)
- The GOP’s health-care plan goes in the exact wrong direction (“American health insurance is too closely tied to employment. The Republican plan makes the problem worse.” Democrats should have gone for something more like Medicare for All or a robust public option…)
- Rep. Adam Schiff slams House Intelligence chair for acting as a ‘surrogate of the White House’ (“President Trump’s claims that he was [wiretapped] remain as baseless today as they were yesterday and the day before.” Correct.)
- Neil Gorsuch Can Get Away with a Lot. Not This. (“The Constitution: It’s kind of important.”)
- Supreme Court unanimously overruled Neil Gorsuch’s strict interpretation of a law while he testified at his SCOTUS confirmation hearing
- Why Fixing Trumpcare Is Impossible (“There’s a secret, cynical reason Paul Ryan can’t give conservatives what they want on the American Health Care Act.”)
- ‘There’s a cover up going on here’: Carl Bernstein spells out why GOP won’t investigate Trump
- ‘The White House is under siege’: Dan Rather calls out Congress for still not investigating Trump
- Al Franken Says the GOP Is Gaslighting Democrats on Garland and Gorsuch
- Conservatives suddenly love big government — when it comes to punishing blue cities for passing progressive local laws
- What In The World Is Devin Nunes Up To?
- Report: FBI evidence suggests Trump associates and Russians may have coordinated to sink Clinton (“A bombshell report from CNN.” Not sure it’s a bombshell, as we already suspected and/or knew that.)
- Trump’s weak closing argument on health care — and why it matters (“When you’re arguing from political cynicism, you need a better case than this.”)
- Good for Virginia? More like good for Dominion. (Ivy Main nails it yet again.)
- Kaine, Warner call for reversal of EPA cuts (Actually, given the global warming crisis, we should be talking about massive INCREASES in funding for the EPA.)
- McAuliffe poised to break record for most vetoes by a Virginia governor (The subtitle, about how this is “a testament to the ideological gap between the Democratic chief executive and the Republican-controlled legislature,” is classic false equivalency/both sides-ism, as the real reason for self-described “pro-business Democrat” McAuliffe’s vetoes is the fact that Republicans have lurched to the far right extreme.)
- Virginia opposition to health-care bill grows, but Rep. Comstock stays mum (10th CD voters, what on earth were you thinking when you elected this loser???)
- Where do Virginia’s 11 members of Congress stand on the health care bill?
- Governor requests pause in coal-ash permitting
- Gov. McAuliffe raises concerns about proposed GOP health care bill
- Stewart brings governor’s campaign to Peninsula (Hate comes to Hampton Roads.)
- Sen. Tim Kaine to visit Hampton University Friday
- Editorial: After 20 years, justice for the Norfolk four (“FOUR NORFOLK MEN, all Navy veterans, served years in prison for a 1997 murder they didn’t commit.”)
- New evacuation plan in works for Hampton Roads
- Editorial: Farrell, Massie retirements deplete region’s Republicans(Bye bye!)
- Special prosecutor investigating allegation House candidate was pressured to drop out
- Editorial: Should Blacksburg become a city?
- Richmond auditor says finance director’s accusation of misused taxpayer data is unfounded
- Capital Weather Gang: Bright sun today, but the real warm-up waits for the weekend
