by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, May 25.
- House GOP’s health bill would leave 23 million more uninsured, CBO says (Absolute disaster.)
- The Fix: CBO sees premiums rising 850 percent for poor elderly under House health bill (Yep, a lot of these people voted for Trump. Getting tired of “winning” yet?)
- Trumpcare Would Cost 23 Million Americans Their Health Coverage, Says CBO
- Fox News crew ‘watched in disbelief’ as Montana’s Greg Gianforte ‘slammed’ and ‘punched’ reporter (Note that the top Republican in the country, Donald Trump, has for a over a year been fomenting anger, hatred and even violence against reporters.)
- Montana’s Special Election Could Give The GOP Another Reason To Fret
- Sean Hannity loses advertisers amid uproar over slain DNC staffer conspiracy theories (Time to put major pressure on this sociopath’s advertisers. No company should want to be associated with Hannity.)
- As advertisers begin to flee, Hannity brags about his smears of murdered DNC staffer Seth Rich (“Hannity brags that Fox News exercises no editorial control: ‘They leave me alone'”)
- First on CNN: AG Sessions did not disclose Russia meetings in security clearance form, DOJ says (Sessions for Prison?)
- Top Russian Officials Discussed How to Influence Trump Aides Last Summer
- Kristof: The Republican Hypocrisy Hall of Fame
- Senate Republicans have all the evidence they need to reject the House-passed health-care overhaul
- Collins: Trump Can’t Add
- How the G.O.P. Sabotaged Obamacare (“Republicans like to say the Affordable Care Act has failed. But it is struggling largely because they have undermined it again and again.”)
- Rattner: The Math Is Phony but the Cruelty Isn’t
- Editorial: The White House’s Aversion to Ethical Scrutiny
- CBO Confirms That the Republican Health Care Bill Is Still a Garbage Dump of Bad Ideas
- Trump’s Infrastructure Plan: Let Wall Street Build and Operate America
- Who gets hurt worst by Trumpcare? Budget office report makes it clear: Trump voters
- CBO: Republican health care bill raises premiums for older, poor Americans by as much as 850% (“The American Health Care Act would make a low-income 64-year-old in the individual market pay more than half his income for health insurance.”)
- Donald Trump’s Base Is Shrinking (It needs to be zero.)
- Trump promised to protect the sick and the poor. He lied. (“Trump’s health care plan and budget show the scandal hiding in plain sight.”)
- Some With Pre-Existing Conditions Could Lose Coverage Under The GOP Health Bill (“The CBO report suggests that the AHCA may not keep Republicans’ promises.” Wait, you mean Republicans lied? I’m shocked! shocked!)
- How Trump’s budget would gut the economy: Massive cuts to Medicaid and food stamps will have devastating ripple effects
- Psychiatrist Bandy Lee: “We have an obligation to speak about Donald Trump’s mental health issues … our survival as a species may be at stake” (“‘Malignant reality is taking hold’ in American politics, says shrink who held conference on Trump’s mental health” Agree that it’s time to ditch the Goldwater Rule. Trump is clearly unhinged and a menace to America and the planet.)
- Sen. Tim Kaine offers proposal to stabilize health-care exchanges
- Ed Gillespie comes to the rescue — of his poor polling numbers (“A poll shows him losing to either Democratic candidate — and it may be President Trump’s fault.” Actually, it’s two polls — Quinnipiac and the Washington Post — and they both show Gillespie losing by 13 points to Tom Perriello and 11 points to Ralph Northam.)
- McAuliffe pardons Salvadoran mother for driving offense in hopes of stopping deportation (Excellent!)
- Virginia DEQ denies backpedaling on pipeline water-crossing reviews
- Editorial: Grab some popcorn, draw up a chair, and watch the Virginia elections (Much better choice than pulling up a chair: VOTE!)
- Editorial: McAuliffe presses for clean energy (“While leadership on clean energy by government and industry is imperative, the public must be a willing partner and advocate if progress is to be made. So it is good news that a new Pew Research Center poll finds that increasing use of renewable energy is a top or important national priority for 83 percent of Americans.”)
- McAuliffe signs bill on jail deaths related to Jamycheal Mitchell on same day Portsmouth prosecutor requests special grand jury into his death at Hampton Roads Regional Jail
- 44 ‘hits’ found in DNA testing of old, backlogged Virginia rape evidence
- Editorial: Northam proposes new university for Southwest Virginia. Is he right? (“When pressed for specifics, he doesn’t have any yet. Critics might call this idea half-baked. It’s more like unbaked. It’s a concept — and one worth looking at, whether you support Northam for governor or not.”)
- Transcript from Suffolk delegate’s hearing reveals details in abuse case
- Wrongly convicted “Norfolk Four” threaten $68 million in lawsuits, and the city has no insurance
- Chesapeake’s longtime Clerk of the Circuit Court dies day before retirement ceremony
- Steady rains taper off early, but afternoon storms likely to pop up
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