Wednesday News: “Trump’s Heartless Decision,” “Mix of Cruelty and Desperate Incompetence” on DACA; Koch [Hearts] Gillespie

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, September 6.

• Capitol Hill clueless on Dreamers fix (“Republican leaders are mum on how they’ll address President Donald Trump’s challenge to Congress.”)
• Trump’s heartless decision (“The president’s move isn’t just gratuitous and cruel. It’s economically backward.”)
• Editorial: Donald Trump’s Cowardice on ‘Dreamers’ (More bigotry and sadistic cruelty… If there is any saving grace to the situation, it is that, contra Yeats, the worst lack all conviction.)
• The Trump Administration Now Has Tons Of DACA Data And Is Poised To Weaponize It (Sick, sick, sick.)
• An Incoherent Strategy on North Korea (“President Trump’s approach to the North’s nuclear plans has produced no results and sowed confusion about his intentions.”)
• Trump’s Immigration Plan Is Obamacare Repeal All Over (“There is an eerie familiarity to President Trump’s position on deporting immigrants who came to the United States illegally as children. It contains the same mix of cruelty and desperate incompetence as his position on repealing Obamacare.”)
• Trump Promises to ‘Revisit’ DACA in 6 Months, Though That Isn’t Really Possible
• Trump’s Move to End DACA and Echoes of the Immigration Act of 1924
• The United States Cannot Be Trusted (“Dreamers and transgender troops took the government at its word. Both groups got betrayed.” Which means that any of us can be betrayed.)
• There’s one big reason for Trump and Sessions to target DACA: Racism (“Jeff Sessions claims DACA recipients are undeserving, unassimilated and prone to crime. None of that is true”)
• Jeff Sessions’ statement rescinding DACA was packed with bigoted right-wing media lies (“Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced the Trump administration’s decision to rescind Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), an Obama-era immigration policy that protects around 800,000 undocumented immigrants who came to the United States as children from immediate deportation while allowing them to work legally. Sessions’ announcement was full of familiar anti-immigrant lies, previously spewed by nativists and right-wing media outlets.”)
• ‘We Will See a Disaster’: Irma Hits Islands on Path to Puerto Rico
• Hurricane Irma Will Be Dangerous No Matter Where It Makes Landfall
• Catastrophic Hurricane Irma — now a Category 5 — is on a collision course with Florida (“It’s the second-strongest hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean and it’s likely to make landfall somewhere in Florida over the weekend.”)
• Trump’s Secret Letter (“What the never-sent note to Comey tells us about the firing and the cover-up.”)
• ‘We are America’: DACA recipients, supporters say they are not going anywhere (How about we deport the orange gropenfuhrer, “Uday” and “Qusay” instead?)
• White House moves to quell Harvey-debt limit opposition
• Apparently, it’s illegal to laugh at Jeff Sessions (Sessions is anti-democracy, in addition to being a virulent racist. He is the LAST person who should be Attorney General.)
• Have we reached a point of no return? (“With a nuclear battle of nitwits and our attention flitting about at will, it seems worse is yet to come.” It’s not looking good, that’s for sure.)
• Republicans attack Donald Trump’s DACA repeal decision (“The president is under fire for making a decision he may not have fully understood, according to a new report”)
• Why Obama refuses to blast Trump over DACA (“Obama can see just as well as everyone else that the most reliable predictor of what Trump will do as president is the opposite of what he said or did. He’s decided the best play is to not give Trump any more to play off of than his successor already has.”)
• GOP fears damage from Trump’s move on DACA (They don’t care about the morality of it, only the politics.)
• GOP leaders to give Trump bitter pill on spending, debt (“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) are expected to move legislation that will keep the government funded until December and raise the nation’s debt limit high enough to last beyond the 2018 midterm elections without funding for the U.S.-Mexico border wall or significant spending reforms favored by conservatives.”)
• Republican strategy on debt ceiling takes shape (“Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) vowed Tuesday to attach legislation raising the debt limit to a Hurricane Harvey relief bill the House is expected to approve on Wednesday, setting up a confrontation among Republicans in Congress.”)
• Police Officer Who Arrested Utah Nurse Gets Fired From Medic Job
• ‘If you’re not white, you’re not welcome’: CNN’s Gergen blisters Trump’s continuing racism in brutal takedown
• Lee descendant resigns from church after blasting white supremacy on MTV
• Rush Limbaugh suggests Hurricane Irma is a liberal hoax (Of course, this is the same lunatic who denies climate science, so…)
• This EPA Statement Reads Like Something You’d Find in Breitbart (“Scott Pruitt’s spin takes it up a notch after Harvey.”)
• Why ending DACA is so unprecedented</a (“Trump’s decision to wind down DACA unless Congress acts doesn’t just threaten 800,000 immigrants. It threatens America’s immigration legacy.”)
• 4 lies Jeff Sessions told to justify ending DACA
• Report: Customers would be paying lower electric rates if not for 2015 law
• Schapiro: Va. campaign’s ‘Godfather’ moment (“Nice guy Gillespie presumably would have preferred running the kind of cheerful, center-right campaign for governor that lifted fellow Republicans George Allen and Bob McDonnell to the office in 1993 and 2009, respectively. Bully boy Donald Trump laid waste to that.”)
• Virginia Democrats slam Trump’s move to end DACA immigrant program, Gillespie wants ‘legislative solution’
• Koch group launches ad campaign against Democrat Northam in Virginia governor’s race (“Americans for Prosperity says the commercial is start of multi-million campaign” Great reason to vote Democratic up and down the ticket on November 7!)
• Va. election will show how the ‘Trump coalition’ is holding, scholar says
• Where Gillespie And Northam Stand On Key Issues In Virginia Governor’s Race (Shorter version: Gillespie is wrong on everything.)
• Editorial: Gillespie shouldn’t indulge crazy talk (“Ed Gillespie, the Republican candidate for governor, made the news recently but not for the most flattering of reasons. The news was that he had hired a campaign operative who has declared that the nation is on the verge of civil war…A minister and self-defense consultant, Morgan has gone so far as to claim that the current campaign to take down Confederate monuments is a communist plot.” The fact that Gillespie would hire someone like this tells you all you need to know about him…)
• Sullivan, Va. politicians take Trump to task for DACA cancellation
• Editorial: State lawmakers are the reason we can’t have nice rebates
• How much will governor hopefuls focus on southwest Virginia?
• Brat praises Trump administration’s plan to rescind DACA; Democrats criticize move
• Warner, Kaine to Honor First Responders to Charity Game Attack
• Virginia sees record low number of Labor Day traffic deaths
• City officials discuss pipeline’s impact on Roanoke River
• Virginia’s Craig Littlepage, first African American athletic director in ACC, is retiring
• Heaphy announces tip line and website for independent review of Charlottesville events
• Council continues to get an earful about rally
• About 100 people gathered in Richmond Tuesday night to rally in support of ‘Dreamers’
• Charlottesville City Council unanimously votes to move Jackson statue, pending lawsuit’s outcome
• Rainy and cool today; awesome autumn weather tomorrow through the weekend