by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, September 18.
- Twitter Man vs. Rocket Man (“What the heck is happening with North Korea? I asked two people who actually know, and they are as scared of Trump as of Kim Jong Un.”)
- Blow: Is Trump a White Supremacist? (“Either Trump is himself a white supremacist or he is a fan and defender of white supremacists, and I quite honestly am unable to separate the two designations.”)
- Krugman: Complacency Could Kill Health Care (“Yet there is a real chance that Graham-Cassidy, which is similar to but even worse than previous Republican proposals, will nonetheless become law, because not enough people are taking it seriously. As in the presidential election, we start from a baseline of extreme tribalism, in which 48 or 49 Republican senators will vote for anything, no matter how awful, that bears their party’s seal of approval. To make a bill the law, its sponsors only need to win one or two more votes.”)
- White House warns North Korea that time is running out for peaceful solution
- Meet the racist birther Donald Trump just retweeted (“It comes two days after Trump was rebuked by British officials for ‘speculating’ on Twitter.”)
- White House: We still plan to exit Paris accord, ruin climate for everyone else. (“Media reports to contrary came from people confused by Trump officials’ explanation for the withdrawal”)
- Senate GOP tries one last time to repeal Obamacare (“McConnell and his lieutenants will gauge support for the bill this week in private party meetings.”)
- Shrink at least 4 national monuments and modify a half-dozen others, Zinke tells Trump (We should be expanding protected lands in this country big time, not shrinking them!)
- Before tackling single-payer, save Obamacare (“To get to universal coverage eventually, we must defeat the Graham-Cassidy plan now.”)
- Trump’s retweets of outlandish memes a signal to his base (The fact that his “base” likes racist, nasty, misogynistic and other such memes shows what said “base” is all about. Not a pretty picture, to put it mildly.)
- The E.P.A. Is Being Used to Prop Up Big Coal (“But practical-minded utility executives are still shutting down coal-fired plants.”)
- McConnell’s mortal enemy might soon be in his caucus (“Bomb-throwing Roy Moore is closing in on victory in the Alabama Senate race — and that’s very bad news for the Senate GOP leader.”)
- Trump bets base will stick with him on immigration
- Trump at the UN: What to watch for Monday
- Trump’s Hillary tweet: After two weeks off, the goon is back (“Don’t get too used to Trump’s vaguely human behavior after Harvey and Irma. The Twitter monster is still here”)
- Stephen Colbert welcoming Sean Spicer to the Emmys stage was a disappointment and a failure (“The host derailed his own Trump jokes by joking around with Spicer.”)
- Trump’s Popularity Has Dipped Most In Red States
- Trump Lawyers Clash Over How Much to Cooperate With Russia Inquiry
- Trump’s dark view of North Korea options
- Rolling Stone, Once a Counterculture Bible, Will Be Put Up for Sale
- How Rex Tillerson alienated every ally he needs (“I think he really will go down as one of the worst secretaries of State we’ve had.”)
- Women Won Big at the 2017 Emmys
- Hurricane Maria is following Irma’s path and getting stronger
- Tim Kaine: The founding fathers wanted you to be a (peaceful) activist
- As Virginia’s top Democrats call for removing Confederate statues, legislative candidates approach with caution
- Metro board chairman splits with Wiedefeld, says $15.5 billion request is too conservative
- Editorial: The argument that won’t sway FERC on pipelines (“For pipeline opponents, that’s yet another reason to oppose the line. Besides the environmental concerns, there’s the objection that this pipeline doesn’t really benefit us. For us, it’s all pain, almost no gain. Instead, the beneficiaries might not even be fellow Americans.” Bottom line: nothing’s going to persuade Trump’s federal regulators to stop the pipelines, which is why this is all up to Virginia’s authority under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.)
- Gillespie exhorts crowd at Goodlatte barbecue (Nauseating: BADlatte is horrendous.)
- Richmond officials pleased by handling of Saturday’s protests, but ‘not letting our guard down’
- Roem criticizes Marshall for not participating in candidate forum (“Sideshow Bob” is a coward.)
- CNU raises $66.2 million, celebrates with symphony, light show
- Virginia regulators reject utility’s 100% renewable energy plan (“The program did not commit to adding any new renewable energy resources to the grid; it simply repackaged existing renewables that are already part of APCO’s standard rate”)
- Community colleges in Southwest Virginia sobered by findings of state retention report
- Beautiful summer weather for days to come, mostly
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