by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 3.
- Even Fox News slams EPA chief’s climate denial: ‘All kinds of studies contradict you’ (“Chris Wallace utterly debunks Scott Pruitt’s lies about the central role carbon pollution plays in warming.”)
- Blow: Dwindling Odds of Coincidence (“The journalistic caution in me keeps having to write that these could all be coincidences, but the journalistic instinct has learned long ago that coincidence is the albino alligator of political reality: It exists, but is exceedingly rare.”)
- Krugman: Trump Is Wimping Out on Trade (“But governing America isn’t like reality TV. A few weeks ago Mr. Trump whined, “Nobody knew that health care could be so complicated.” Now, one suspects, he’s saying the same thing about trade policy.”)
- Senate faces nuclear showdown over Neil Gorsuch nomination
- Filings Show Trump’s Staff Mixed Politics and Paydays (The Trump administration IS the “swamp.”)
- Former GOP House Intelligence chairman slams Devin Nunes investigation (“Ex-Rep. Mike Rogers (R-MI) says he would have handled the investigation ‘completely’ differently.”)
- The right’s jarring drift toward Russia (“It’s not hysterical or hypocritical to interrogate Russia’s intervention in the 2016 campaign.”)
- Bernie is wrong and Malcolm was right: What white liberals so often get wrong about racism and Donald Trump (“White progressives have a tough time confronting racism — as Bernie Sanders, a hero in many ways, has made clear”)
- McConnell threatens to ‘break the rules to change the rules’ to confirm Gorsuch (“The Senate Majority Leader said as recently as January that the Senate rules cannot be changed without a supermajority.”)
- What Trump should ask a brutal dictator as he welcomes him to the White House
- Mitch McConnell’s Nuclear Trigger Finger (“The Democrats should stand firm against Neil Gorsuch’s Supreme Court nomination. Let the Republicans be the ones who undo Senate rules.”)
- Juan Williams: Trump’s risk of impeachment rises (I still don’t see Republicans as putting patriotism over party.)
- Six Degrees of Trump Opposition (“You can tell how much trouble Trump is in by how many groups are lined up against him.”)
- In epic letter, investment fund fires law firm for enabling the Trump kleptocracy (“America deserves a President of undivided loyalty. Your firm has denied them that.”)
- Democrats close in on 41 votes to block Gorsuch (“Mitch McConnell reiterates that he’s prepared to kill the filibuster to get the high court nominee confirmed.” The same guy who wouldn’t even allow a vote on President Obama’s superb Supreme Court pick, Merrick Garland, for almost a YEAR!)
- How Democrats intend to vote on the Gorsuch filibuster (Mark Warner still undecided.)
- Trump: ‘I don’t lose’ (Translation: Trump loses all the time, badly.)
- Donald Trump’s Fictional America (“I grew up surrounded by Chávez’s alternate reality. Now I’m watching one consume the United States.”)
- Hospitals’ bid for extra Medicaid payments ‘problematic’ in Virginia budget
- McAuliffe praises solar job grow in Virginia (We need a lot more, a lot faster. Also offshore wind and a massive push for energy efficiency, ASAP! Oh, and break up Dominion Power while we’re at it…)
- Trump Threatens to Kill The Chesapeake Bay.
- Gubernatorial candidate Perriello campaigns in Danville
- Amid rate-freeze dust-up, how do Dominion’s electric prices stack up?
- More bluster from the bag man (Trying to decide who’s more extreme and wrong, the far-right Washington Times or the Republican Times-Disgrace editorial board. Tough choice.)
- Video: Tom Perriello speaks to crowd in McLean
- Prince William eyes larger raises for government, school employees
- Nice into this afternoon, but stormy tonight; a volatile week overall
