by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, July 16.
- Health care bill on brink of collapse as third Republican senator lashes out at McConnell (“If they lose one more vote, the Senate health care bill is dead.”)
- Poll finds Trump’s standing weakened since springtime (“The president’s overall approval rating has dropped to 36 percent from 42 percent in April, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll. His disapproval has risen five points to 58 percent. Overall, 48 percent say they ‘disapprove strongly’ of President Trump’s performance in office, a level never reached by former presidents Bill Clinton and Barack Obama and reached only in the second term of George W. Bush.”)
- McConnell delays vote on Senate health bill again in wake of McCain’s surgery
- Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval still doesn’t support the Senate health-care bill. That’s big trouble for Republicans.
- Krugman: Ted Cruz’s Giant Leap Into the Known (“So the burden of proof should lie completely with anyone who claims that this bill would NOT cause drastic coverage losses. It would establish a system very much like that which existed in those parts of America in which vast numbers of people lacked coverage in the past; why would this time be different?”)
- Donald Trump Jr. Met With Soviet Adept at Dark Arts
- Governors Go Around Trump on Global Diplomacy
- Game of Trump (“A maniacal mad king and his court of scheming, self-absorbed princesses and princelings, swathed in the finest silk and the most brazen immorality, ruling with total disregard for the good of their people. The night in Washington is dark and full of terrors. The Game of Trump has brought a pagan lawlessness never before seen in the capital…’If you think this has a happy ending, you haven’t been paying attention.'”)
- How They Justify Collusion (“The excuses for the Don Jr. meeting are even more damning than the meeting itself.”)
- Donald Trump Jr. paid attorney with funds from his father’s re-election campaign: report (“Two weeks before the infamous email-chain was released, President Trump’s campaign paid $50,000 to his son’s lawyer”)
- Governors voice resistance to Senate health bill
- Leaked draft of Rick Perry grid study debunks his attack on renewable energy (“But will the Trump administration erase those findings from the final Energy Dept. study?”)
- Insurers Torch New Cruz Provision In TrumpCare: ‘Simply Unworkable’
- The Kodiak Kickback: the quiet payoff for an Alaska senator in the Senate health bill (“Can giving Alaska $1.8 billion for health care let the GOP cut $1 trillion for America?”)
- Ralph Northam Faces Pressure from Protesters for Pipeline Views
- Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe Leads Fight Against Cyber Threats
- Schapiro: Stewart Trumps Gillespie (“It’s difficult not to believe that implicit in Stewart’s splash is his expectation that Gillespie — perhaps the entire Republican ticket — is doomed, eliminating the last vestige of Establishment Republicanism in a state that once was the embodiment of it and creating a vacuum that could be quickly filled by Stewart and his merry band of immigrant bashers, tax haters and blue-collar white nationalists…Stewart, as an emblem of the Trump-dominated Republican Party, is a problem for Gillespie that Gillespie unknowingly created for himself through years of stoop work in the GOP as one of its most influential strategists.”)
- A. Barton Hinkle on The Minnesota Matchup: Tim Kaine v. Corey Stewart? (“In short, [Corey Stewart is] glad there’s an unaccountable government body available to skirt the state constitution so he can give taxpayer money to fat cats.”)
- She didn’t just charter a bank. With new statue, Richmond hopes to illuminate depth of Maggie Walker’s contributions
- Activists, ACLU ask Charlottesville to drop charges, revise police tactics after tear gas deployed at KKK rally
- CASEY: Gilmore quibbles over claim his ‘no car tax’ pledge was a fraud
- Ed Gillespie getting heat from both parties for criticizing transportation deal
- About 75 people walk in memory of euthanized geese in Virginia Beach
- Rep. Rob Wittman eyes Defense dollars to reduce toll on Coleman Bridge
- Relatively nice today; heat and humidity build again this week
