by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, September 2.
- GOP leaders join clamor to retain ‘dreamers’ program for immigrants
- Flood Victims Return to Damaged Homes, Amid Tears, Debris and Stench (“Parts of Beaumont Are Cut Off; River Is Set to Crest Saturday”)
- Hurricane Harvey’s warning to all (“Make no mistake: We are being alerted about global warming and climate change.” Right, which means it’s time to move as rapidly as possible off of fossil fuels – including natural gas – and onto clean energy.)
- Paul Ryan Backs Bill to Give Dreamers Legal Status
- America’s Worst Columnist Still Convinced Trump Is Innocent (“Republican apparatchik, lobbyist, and America’s Worst Columnist™ Ed Rogers has used his inexplicably extant perch in the Washington Post to publish a morbidly hilarious series of defenses of Donald Trump’s connections to Russia”)
- Ryan, McConnell vow to quickly approve Trump’s Harvey aid request
- Congressman wants to shut down Trump investigation, but investigate everyone else (“Ron DeSantis has demanded probes into Hillary Clinton and Debbie Wasserman Schultz.”)
- White House walks back promise about Trump donating his ‘personal money’ to Harvey victims
- Who Needs a State Department Anyway? (“Not Rex Tillerson or Donald Trump.”)
- ‘He won’t abide such treatment’: Gen. Kelly said ‘nobody has spoken to him’ like Trump in his 35-year career
- Forceful Chief of Staff Grates on Trump, and the Feeling Is Mutual
- Mueller Has Early Draft of Trump Letter Giving Reasons for Firing Comey
- Hannity radio guest host: Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi, “but she was still marching with antifa” (Demented.)
- Bannon’s failure: His grandiose vision of right-wing populism was never going to work (“Steve Bannon’s ‘economic nationalism’ has been thoroughly defeated — and was never more than white-dude nostalgia “)
- White Elephant (“Trump has never been less popular—and never more clearly the head of a party of racial resentment.”)
- Moment of truth arrives for Obamacare repeal (“Republicans face a Sept. 30 deadline to kill the law with 50 votes, but many in the party have already moved on.”)
- Trump army puts Dent, GOP moderates on notice — in his backyard (“‘You’re gonna get primaried,’ one organizer told the Pennsylvania lawmaker who opposed an Obamacare repeal plan.”)
- Editorial: The silly season gets started early in Virginia elections (“Both sides-ism” strikes again.)
- McAuliffe declares to state of emergency to help in wake of Harvey
- Virginia Republican Channels Donald Trump In New Campaign Tone
- National Democrats Turn Labor Day Attention to Va. Gubernatorial Race
- Editorial: Democrats send the wrong signal to rural Virginia (“The three Democratic candidates seeking statewide office will be in Buena Vista for their party’s breakfast — then will fly off to Hampton for another event at 11 a.m. Ralph Northam, Justin Fairfax and Mark Herring will not walk the parade route shaking hands. They will not give speeches in the park.”)
- Judge dismisses federal lawsuit over Culpeper mosque (“A federal judge on Friday dismissed the U.S. Justice Department’s lawsuit alleging that the Culpeper County Board of Supervisors bowed to anti-Muslim bias in the community when it denied a sewer permit last year for the Islamic Center of Culpeper”)
- State regulators: Dominion overearned by as much as $252 million last year, won’t be able to recoup costs of power line burial
- Richmond leaders call on McAuliffe to endorse school modernization proposal
- Charlottesville judge delays ruling on challenge to Confederate statue removal; asks groups to stop calling his office
- Mountain Valley Pipeline highlights construction and safety risks on steep slopes in Roanoke County
- Cool with occasional raindrops today, then turning nicer for the rest of the holiday weekend
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