by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, June 26.
- The Senators Who May Kill the GOP Health Bill
- Just Wait (“Watergate didn’t become Watergate overnight, either.”)
- Senate Leaders Push on Health Bill; Opposition Gains Strength
- GOP faces key week as senators waver in support for health-care bill
- Kushner firm given $285 million Deutsche Bank loan a month before Election Day
- As GOP bill guts health care, Sunday shows failed (The Sunday shows are pretty much a continuous #FAIL. I stopped watching them years ago.)
- Why Dems can’t break through on Obamacare repeal (“A Trump-obsessed media and the GOP’s secrecy and speed have stymied the left and put a sweeping conservative bill on the verge of Senate passage.”)
- McConnell allies confident in healthcare win
- Trump’s Deflections and Denials on Russia Frustrate Even His Allies
- The Senate’s three big lies about health care (“Let’s hope we don’t get to the fourth lie, in which those who know better say the current bill is the best they could do.”)
- Jared Kushner’s meeting with Mahmoud Abbas went so badly that Trump is reportedly considering pulling out of talks
- Ron Johnson: People with preexisting condition don’t deserve insurance like ‘somebody who crashes their car’ (WTF???)
- White House talks energy as health care vote looms
(These people are a bad joke in every way.) - Social Darwinism Is What Truly Guides Trump
- Kellyanne Conway Defends Medicaid Cuts, Says Adults Can Always Find Jobs (Why does anyone have this pathological liar on their shows?)
- GOP Senator Says It’s ‘Hard’ To Imagine Obamacare Repeal Passing This Week
- Trump, Modi seek rapport despite friction on trade, immigration
- Trump plays 18 holes of golf at Virginia club: report
- Editorial: The spirit of civility didn’t last long (I’m including this only as another example of how bad the Republican Times-Disgrace editorial board sucks. Poorly written, poorly reasoned, false equivalency, you name it.)
- Editorial: Appalachia needs a baby boom — or immigration. Or both. (It needs an economy that attracts people to live there.)
- Is Washington’s Metro Improving? After $150 Million, Maybe
- So refreshing to begin the week, but toasty toward the end
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