by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, May 9.
- Republicans Tried to Make the Trump–Russia Hearings About Anything but Trump and Russia
- WATCH: Al Franken brilliantly connects the dots on why Trump took so long to fire Flynn
- ‘Yates just handed Ted Cruz his ass on a platter’: Internet celebrates Sally Yate’s brutal shutdown of GOP senator (You mean his smarmy, sleazy, oily ass?)
- Comey’s Testimony on Huma Abedin Forwarding Emails Was Inaccurate (“The FBI hasn’t decided how to correct the director’s false claim that she forwarded thousands of Clinton emails to the laptop computer of her husband, former Congressman Anthony Weiner.”)
- Right-Wing Media Outlets Echo Trump’s Unfounded Smears Of Sally Yates (Sally Yates is a true American hero.)
- Senate Republicans Form All-Male Panel on Health Bill (These people are so blatant…)
- The Business Case for the Paris Climate Accord (“Remaining in the treaty would spur new investment, strengthen American competitiveness, create jobs and ensure access to global markets.” Bingo. In fact, we should be doubling/tripling down on our effort to switch to clean energy ASAP.)
- Twice Warned, Trump Stuck by Flynn Despite Ties to Russia
- Yates says she warned White House that Flynn could be blackmailed by Russia
- U.S. is poised to ramp up military in Afghanistan (So much for Trump being “America First,” whatever that means, or isolationist or whatever. Incoherent is more like it.)
- President Trump, stay in the Paris agreement. You’ll regret it if you don’t. (“His top national-security advisers should go to the mat to persuade him not to withdraw.” They should threaten to resign en masse if he does this.)
- Yates’s testimony pumps the bellows on the Trump-Russia probe (“There’s already so much smoke you can’t get near it without a respirator.”)
- Divided Senate Republicans Turn to Health Care With a Rough Road Ahead
- Washington Loves General McMaster, But Trump Doesn’t (“The national security adviser has lost sway. The White House says everything’s fine.”)
- Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump should recuse themselves from China policy
- Pepe cartoonist kills off character that became hate symbol (“The cartoonist who created Pepe the Frog has killed off the character in a rebuke to far-right extremists who transformed a benevolent internet meme into a racist, anti-Semitic symbol.”)
- Trump is waging a war on millennials (“The president’s tax, student-loan and climate policies stick it to the young.”)
- Republicans are accidentally paving the way for single-payer health care (“The GOP’s floundering makes the case for a universal system.”)
- Why Trump can’t do what he said he’d do (“He takes no interest in shaping policy, thus forfeiting his political uniqueness.”)
- Conventional Wisdom May Be Contaminating Polls
- Whatever Happened to the Plan to Defeat ISIS? (“Defeating the jihadi group used to be Trump’s top priority. Now he seems to have forgotten about it just as the battle has reached its bloody climax.” Yet another broken promise and lie by Trump.)
- Did Donald Trump try to threaten Sally Yates on Twitter? If so, he committed a felony (Lock him up?)
- Obamacare was never the “job killer” Republicans warned it would be — but Trumpcare will be
- Republicans war over taxes (“Full-on reformers face resistance from those willing to settle for tax cuts.”)
- Why the Sally Yates Hearing Was Very Bad News for the Trump White House (“The president just lost his favorite piece of spin for countering the Russia scandal.”)
- Who has Trump’s ear? Often rich, white, Republican men.
- Virginia appeals court skeptical of Trump’s revised ‘travel ban’ (It continues to be both foolish and blatantly unconstitutional.)
- Va. gubernatorial contender Northam calls for ban on corporate campaign giving (“Why not start by giving back hundreds of thousands in corporate donations, retorts his opponent in Democratic primary.”)
- The Democrats’ Unifier (“The future of the Democratic Party is Tom Perriello, a progressive populist from Virginia.” We’ll see…)
- Obamacare cost him a seat in Congress. Can it make him Governor of Virginia?
- Democratic hopefuls for governor to meet at third debate (“Northam and Perriello are scheduled to meet at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers union hall in Richmond for their third debate.”)
- How you can watch Perriello and Northam ‘Debate for the State’
- Congressman Scott Taylor is the focus of online attack ads after voting to repeal Affordable Care Act
- Editorial: A job for Virginia’s next speaker, Kirk Cox: End the secrecy (Democrats’ job: do whatever we can so that Cox is NOT Virginia’s next Speaker…)
- Gov. McAuliffe signs bill requiring driver ed courses teach how to interact with police
- Driver’s ed in Va: Right of way, use of signals and, now, how to behave with police
- A new wrinkle for the Chinese paper plant McAuliffe attracted to Virginia (“New technology has added another delay to the governor’s biggest economic development coup.”)
- State employee compensation, community colleges high on JLARC’s work plan for year
- Chesapeake Bay earns ‘C’ for overall health; blue crabs, rockfish, anchovies are thriving (“Environmental scientists said the passing grade and the minor improvement in scores are signs that cleanup efforts are working.”)
- Richmond City Council to assert more day-to-day fiscal oversight in move mayor calls ‘legislative overreach’ (“Sidestepping objections from Mayor Levar Stoney’s administration, the Richmond City Council voted Monday to give itself more day-to-day oversight over how city administrators spend taxpayer money.”)
- Senators Locke, Mason to be honored by Hampton-Newport News CSB
- Biggest ship ever calls on the Port of Virginia
- ‘Ravaging communities’: McAuliffe talks opioid epidemic at Abingdon town hall
- Manassas to refund local businesses a total of $850,000 in overpaid taxes
- Nice today and tomorrow, clouds and showers return late week
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