by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, July 14. Also check out Stephen Colbert talking about how “Donald Trump is putting past presidents to shame when it comes to overseas faux pas.”
- Krugman: The Cruelty and Fraudulence of Mitch McConnell’s Health Bill (“So what we’re seeing here is supposed to be the last act in a long con, the moment when the fraudsters cash in, and their victims discover how completely they’ve been fooled. The only question is whether they’ll really get away with it. We’ll find out very soon.”)
- The new Senate health-care bill may be worse than the old one (“The bill still deeply slashes Medicaid and would chop up the private market for individual insurance.”)
- Forecast of weak economic growth raises questions for Trump’s agenda (“President Trump’s budget would not add to economic growth or eliminate the deficit in coming years, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said Thursday, casting doubt on a plan the White House has touted as central to achieving its populist domestic priorities.”)
- G.O.P.’s New Health Measure Faces Skeptical Senators
- Senate Republicans Unveil New Health Bill, but Divisions Remain
- Editorial: A Scary New Senate Health Care Bill
- McConnell’s Two-Faced Approach to Health-Care Reform (“The irony is that McConnell may be correct insofar as passing this extremely unpopular bill will materially increase the odds that Democrats are in a position to repeal it after 2018 and 2020.”)
- Former Soviet Counter Intelligence Officer at Meeting With Donald Trump Jr. and Russian Lawyer
- Jared Kushner Keeps Making the Russia Scandal So Much Worse
- Already A White House Liability, Kushner Became Radioactive This Week
- Reverence for Putin on the Right Buys Trump Cover (That is really sick.)
- In Trump’s world, innocence is proved by guilt (“The Russia story is the height of sleazy stupidity.”)
- Everything is a distraction from something much, much worse (“Russia is a distraction from health care, which is a distraction from tax cuts, which is . . .”)
- Ivanka and Jared begin the plunge from grace (“President Trump’s daughter and her husband are not faring well in the political limelight.”)
- Why, oh why, does Trump love Russia so very much?
- Senate Republicans one vote away from Obamacare repeal failure (“GOP leaders unveiled a new plan to gut the health law, but it immediately ran into near-fatal opposition.”)
- The new Senate health bill is terrible for anyone who is sick, has been sick, or will be sick (That’s everyone, in other words.)
- With Trump, Flattery Will Get You Everywhere (“Emmanuel Macron gives a master class in pushing the president’s buttons.”)
- The new Senate health care bill — and the return of preexisting conditions — explained
- Trump Administration OK’s Its First Arctic Offshore Drilling Plan (“The Italian oil company Eni plans to drill four exploratory wells off Alaska. The last attempt in the region was Shell’s 2015 failure.” Unacceptable.)
- Top Democrat on Senate Intelligence Committee fears Trump will pardon anyone who colluded (“A one-on-one interview with Sen. Mark Warner.”)
- The New Health Insurance Bill Faces The Same Old Roadblocks (“Medicaid cuts make the bill a tough sell with GOP moderates.”)
- Now that a White House insider is implicated, Team Trump may begin to fall apart (“There’s still a cadre of loyalists, doing their best to spread lies. But the Trump coalition is coming unglued”)
- BREAKING: Court delivers new, major blow to Trump’s Muslim ban (“Say goodbye to the ban on grandmothers, at least for now.”)
- Trump Lawyer Marc Kasowitz Threatens Stranger in Emails: ‘Watch Your Back , Bitch’ (“After hearing Rachel Maddow discuss our recent story about Kasowitz, a man emailed the attorney urging him to resign. Kasowitz responded with threats and profanity.”)
- The Putin Obsession That Led to Trump Jr.’s Meeting (“Russia has been trying to roll back human rights sanctions for years. And Moscow’s strategy is getting more sophisticated.”)
- Five takeaways from the GOP’s healthcare reboot
- Despite spouting climate denier talking points, EPA Chief is surprised he’s called a climate denier (“Scott Pruitt now wants to televise a debate on climate science.” We going to “debate” gravity, too? God, I hate these people.)
- Ordered by court to disclose his Russia contacts, Sessions releases blank sheet of paper (“What’s he hiding?”)
- Betsy DeVos just perpetuated years of right-wing attacks on rape survivors (DeVos is an extremist and a nasty piece of work…)
- Can Obama un-rig the GOP’s gerrymandered map? Here are the wins the Dems need first
- Mississippi auditor says GreenTech shrank to 10 employees; McAuliffe responds: ‘I left a long time ago’
- Cditorial: Corey Stewart. Again. (Sigh.)
- Stewart’s Senate announcement may put pressure on Gillespie (“Dissident Republican Corey Stewart’s entry into Virginia’s 2018 Senate race overlaps with this year’s race for governor. And that could complicate life for GOP gubernatorial candidate Ed Gillespie, who continues to be a recipient of Stewart’s razor-sharp tongue.”)
- Did gubernatorial candidate Ralph Northam ’embrace’ Atlantic Coast Pipeline? It depends on who you ask. (“Listen to a clip from Thursday morning’s radio show here.”)
- Supreme Court of Virginia hands pipeline foes small victory, but project rolls on
- Mississippi auditor slams Gov. McAuliffe’s former company, demands payment (“Republican official says GreenTech, an electric car company, never delivered on promises.”)
- Virginia Republicans face the largest number of contested elections in over a decade (“Fifty-six of the 66 GOP-led areas have a challenger running in them.”)
- Pipelines: Va. Supreme Court upholds gas survey law on entering private property, but requires specific notice to landowners
- Would selling naming rights for Metro stations really be worth it?
- A longtime City Hall lightning rod, Richmond auditor finds job on the line after staff alleges mistreatment
- Geese roundup killing in Virginia Beach has prompted U.S. Rep. Scott Taylor to question USDA (“’You don’t kill animals over your yard’: Critics plan march for the 103 geese euthanized in Virginia Beach”)
- D.C.-area forecast: After strong-to-severe storms threaten late today, a calmer and less-sweaty weekend
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