by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, April 6.
- McConnell: ‘Nuclear option’ helps Senate. McCain: ‘Whoever says that is a stupid idiot.’
- G.O.P. and Democrats Set to Collide on Filibuster
- Negotiations to avert nuclear option collapse ahead of Gorsuch vote
- Sidelined on Security Council, Bannon Sees Role Diminish (Get this white supremacist wacko out of the White House immediately!)
- Blow: Creeping Toward Crisis (“I am racked with anxiety that our buffoonish ‘president’ — who sounds so internationally unsophisticated and who is still operating under a cloud of illegitimacy — is beginning to face his first real foreign crises.”)
- President Trump’s Most Important Meeting (“The visit of President Xi Jinping of China will be a test of Mr. Trump’s ability to address global issues with an experienced leader.”)
- Analysis: For Trump, the weight of world’s problems sink in
- Personal irresponsibility: A concise history of Trump’s buck-passing (“Once again, the president points the finger at anyone but himself.”)
- The Gorsuch filibuster is about far more than payback (“Democrats have had enough with the politics of power-grabbing and bullying.” Exactly, it’s time to stop playing the Republicans’ game or putting up with their thug tactics.)
- Why the conservative push to repeal Obamacare is stalling yet again
- On MSNBC, Rep. Maxine Waters Calls For Prosecution Of O’Reilly And Fox News’ “Sexual Harassment Enterprise”
- What Happens When North Korea Tests a Missile That Could Reach the U.S.?
- Swamp Intrigue (“Bannon’s ouster could be the sign of a functional National Security Council—or merely the charade of one.”)
- House Republicans Have Failed Again (“Another week, another thwarted health care deal.”)
- More stupid health care politics: Trump’s grand plan to sabotage Obamacare is likely to backfire (“Blaming Democrats for an Obamacare collapse might make sense — if it collapses, and if Democrats had any power”)
- The GOP’s New Health Care Plan Is Doomed Without Moderate Republicans
- Trump lacks key players for meeting with Chinese leader (“President’s skeletal team will be going up against a vastly more experienced Chinese corps of experts.”)
- Sanders wing dealt setback in Calif. special election (“A Democratic state assemblyman and a former Los Angeles planning commissioner were running ahead in a wide-open congressional primary here Tuesday, routing several contenders aligned with the Bernie Sanders wing of the Democratic Party.”)
- Eric and Ivanka Trump deliver spirited defense of nepotism (“Nepotism is kind of a factor of life.”)
- Kaine: Trump won’t call out Assad because of coziness with Russia
- Tim Kaine: ‘The Country Is Safer With Stephen Bannon Not on the National Security Council’ (Get him out of the White House as well!)
- Sen. Tim Kaine blasts President Trump for blaming Syria’s chemical attack on Obama: ‘He’s got to put on his big boy pants’
- Trump, Citing No Evidence, Suggests Susan Rice Committed Crime (C’mon New York Times, you can do it, just say TRUMP IS LYING.)
- Garrett bill would require presidents to disclose tax returns (Wait, do I actually agree with Garrett on something???)
- Rep. Scott joins bipartisan push for clean water funds
- Medicaid expansion rejected at General Assembly’s veto session (Virginia General ASSembly Republicans are a disgrace.)
- Va. legislature sustains McAuliffe vetoes (“The GOP-led legislature failed to muster the votes to override the record-breaking governor.”)
- Democrats clamor to take on Rep. Comstock in northern Virginia
- Senator Mark Warner proposes bills reducing student debt
- Sanders to campaign for Virginia gov candidate
- Judge allows some of Rolling Stone’s requests for U.Va. fraternity to proceed
- First step in Virginia marijuana reform (“Virginia State Crime Commission study signals progress toward decriminalization”)
- ICE agents arrest 82 people, 68 with criminal convictions, in five-day immigration roundup in Va., D.C., Md.
- Experts to discuss climate change’s impact on the Chesapeake Bay region
- With Del. Dave Albo Quitting, Virginia House Democrats Just Gained a YUGE Pickup Opportunity
- Senate rejects McAuliffe’s attempt to gut suicide records bill
- Hampton Roads Transit lays off 16 employees, eliminates 17 other positions after reporting cost overruns
- What the Richmond area can expect from Thursday’s severe weather threat
- Showers and storms today, some potentially severe; much cooler Friday
