by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, July 28.
- Senate rejects bid to partly repeal Obamacare, dealing a blow to GOP leaders (“Republicans’ latest effort to redraw the Affordable Care Act failed after Sens. John McCain, Susan Collins and Lisa Murkowski voted against the “skinny repeal” measure. The legislation’s defeat was a huge setback for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, and the outcome threw into doubt the GOP’s ability to overturn the 2010 law.”)
- The night John McCain killed the GOP’s health-care fight (“It was the most dramatic night in the United States Senate in recent history. Just ask the senators who witnessed it.”)
- Obamacare Lives (“Obamacare has brought life-changing access to modern medical care to 20 million Americans. It will endure.”)
- ‘Skinny Repeal’ Dies in Shocking Early-Morning Senate Vote (That “skinny” repeal would have caused massive health insurance premium hikes, for starters. Anyone who voted for it must be defeated at the next possible opportunity!)
- GOP Health Care Drive Ends Not With a Bang But a Whimper
- Anthony Scaramucci Called Me To Unload About White House Leakers, Reince Preibus, and Steve Bannon (“He started by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. It escalated from there.” Scaramucci is, among other things, Scar-y!)
- The White House’s new communications director just vowed to “kill all” government leakers
- White House tensions flare in the open as Scaramucci rips Priebus in vulgar tirade (I despise Reince Preibus, but Scaramucci is completely deranged.)
- Scaramucci declares war on Priebus, Bannon
- Krugman: The Sanctimony and Sin of G.O.P. ‘Moderates’ (“But whatever happens, every Senate Republican besides Collins and Murkowski should be deeply ashamed.” And McCain, sort of.)
- Phew: The Health Bill Fails (“Are these repeal efforts finally dead?” Probably, but now the Republican sabotage effort redoubles.)
- The worst is yet to come (“Trump’s reign is not a presidency. It is an affliction that must be fiercely resisted.”)
- In One Day, Trump Administration Lands 3 Punches Against Gay Rights (Wait, didn’t Trump promise he’d be pro-LGBT? And there were actually people who BELIEVED him???)
- GOP female senators pushed back on health care. Now they face a pointed backlash from male colleagues. (“Republican women whose disapproval of their party’s health-care effort has hindered it in the Senate have seen increasingly heated responses from their male counterparts, including comments that invoked physical retaliation.” Appalling but sadly not surprising from the misogynist party.)
- It’s time to start thinking about the unthinkable (“Congress should take precautions now against the tweeter in chief.” Big time. Trump’s a menace to America and to the entire world.)
- How McCain upended Obamacare repeal (“With fellow senators and President Trump pressing him McCain bucked party leadership on Obamacare repeal.” Amazing; I fully expected McCain to cave in the end. Good for him that he didn’t!)
- Say hello to a post-America world (In short, Trump voters apparently wanted to Make America Weak Again.)
- Donald Trump’s State of Mind, and Ours (“As he passes six months in office, his behavior has become more bizarre, as if driven by the centrifugal force of his instincts.”)
- Trump’s Boy Scout speech should give everyone the creeps
- Lawmakers look forward after ObamaCare repeal failure (“Three main answers emerged — bipartisan committee work, stabilizing the insurance markets and administration action to change the healthcare law.”)
- McConnell: ‘Time to move on’ after healthcare defeat
- Watch the Moment John McCain Killed Trumpcare
- The Senate had 3 Obamacare repeal bills. It has now voted against them all.
- How Long Can This Go On? (“One of Trump’s top aides viciously attacks the others, even as the president lambastes his own attorney general. Is there any limit on this administration’s dysfunction?”)
- The Lesson Trump Hasn’t Learned (“Trump says that he surrounds himself with “the best people”—but too often, that means people like himself.” And THAT is the big problem.)
- U.S. House Hacks Away at Renewable Energy, Efficiency Programs (Appalling.)
- Will Trump use the August recess to fire Sessions and Mueller? It might be the best thing he could do for the country (“If Trump fires both his attorney general and the special counsel before summer’s end, it could end his presidency”)
- Make America Afraid Again (“Trump’s ‘slice and dice’ rhetoric about brown-on-white violence has a single purpose.”)
- Fox’s Jesse Watters: “A lot of people wish President Trump was a dictator” (Watters: Maybe then “we could repeal Obamacare”)
- Russia demands U.S. reduce diplomatic staff in new round of conflict over election hacking
- Trump’s military ban prompts $50k donation to transgender Va. candidate
- Virginia Governor on Redskins: ‘You’re going to see this team move to Virginia’ (As long as not a dime of taxpayer money goes towards it…)
- Pipeline battle (“Supporters say project is needed, but it faces stiff resistance” It most certainly is NOT needed…except for Dominion’s profits, perhaps.)
- Gillespie, Northam Campaigns Regroup After Homestead Debate
- U.S. House kills Morgan Griffith’s amendment to gut Congressional Budget Office (Morgan Griffith is an abomination.)
- Editorial: Will candidates sign a Contract With Rural Virginia?
- VITA, Northrop Grumman settle legal dispute over access to data center
- In nod to conservative base, Gillespie urges ‘eradicating’ gangs and sanctuary cities (Gillespie does his best – albeit still pale – Corey Stewart imitation.)
- Deeds releases Virginia from lawsuit over mentally ill son’s suicide
- Virginia school board votes to change name of J.E.B. Stuart High School
- This church sold its land for $8.5 million, then bought a chunk back to build a park (“Arlington Presbyterian decided to create a small pocket of green space for the community on the lot where their church once stood.”)
- Metro’s dithering is costing millions (“The transit system still lacks local safety oversight, and it is paying a price for it — literally.”)
- Landowners along pipeline route sue FERC and Mountain Valley Pipeline
- Editorial: Hampton Roads overlooked in gubernatorial debate schedule
- Editorial: Richmond’s superintendent search committee needs to remember its place
- Stoney apologizes, says Richmond police and firefighters could get delayed raises in two weeks
- More revealed about mental health, criminal record of Chester man who was fatally shot by Richmond police
- Rain developing today, then becoming heavy at times; flash flooding a risk
********************************************************
Sign up for the Blue Virginia weekly newsletter
