by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, December 18.
- Trump will drop climate change from US National Security Strategy (Yet AGAIN,
Trump does the exact opposite of what is needed; in this case an all-out effort to slash greenhouse gas emissions. Evil incarnate.) - Will Passing The Tax Bill Help The GOP In 2018? Probably Not.
- 5 Points You Need To Know About The New Tax Bill Headed Trump’s Way (“Democrats had no input”)
- Team Trump just launched an aggressive new attack on Mueller. It’s not going well.
- Democrats see plot to fire Mueller in escalating GOP attacks (“Republican leaders still profess respect for the special counsel, but they’ve largely stayed silent as rank-and-file members claim the probe is biased.”)
- 7 Years Before Russia Hacked the Election, Someone Did the Same Thing to Climate Scientists (“Why does this story sound so darned familiar?”)
- America Hates the Republicans, and They Don’t Know Why
- Leonhardt: A Tax Plan to Turbocharge Inequality
- They Spoke Out. Now E.P.A. Workers Are Being Watched. (Completely unacceptable.)
- Blow: Omarosa, Sacking of a Sellout (“…often, the focus of her scorn and venom were other black people. This made it all the more shocking when she became the “director of African-American outreach” for the Trump campaign…That’s right. Omarosa is saying that 71-year-old Trump requires a learning curve to move away from racial hostility and toward racial sensitivity and tolerance.”)
- Who Is Congress Really Serving? (Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren: “The Republican tax bill is a travesty. But there‘s still plenty we can do to improve the daily lives of millions of Americans.”)
- What’s in—and Out of—the Final Republican Tax Bill (“The GOP succeeded in delivering on many of its promises. But the new code, which Congress will vote on this week, will not be as lasting, or as simplified, as they’d hoped.”)
- Republicans are joining a festival of corruption (“The tax bill is the epitome of the Washington ‘swamp.'”)
- Trump should face harassment allegations under oath
- Doug Jones views sexual assault as a distraction from ‘real issues’ (Uhhhh…dude, glad you beat Roy Moore and everything, but get a grip, sexual assault is very much a real issue!)
- The Senate is rushing through Trump’s judicial nominees. These embarrassments prove it.
- Trump says he won’t fire Mueller, as campaign to discredit Russia probe heats up
- Image of Cooperation Between White House and Mueller Starts to Fracture
- Trump to unveil ‘America First’ national security strategy (Ugh, this is not going to be good.)
- Sen. John McCain back in Arizona, will miss vote on GOP tax bill
- Fox News Host Suggests “We Have a Coup on Our Hands in America” (Jesse Watters is completely bonkers.)
- How blue states might save Obamacare’s markets (“But passing state-level coverage requirements could be politically risky.”)
- As multiple Fox News figures suggest the FBI is corrupt, Chris Wallace says that no one is attacking the FBI as an institution
- Donald Trump Jr. and Ted Cruz mock Barack Obama with racist cookie (We need to beat Cruz in 2018.)
- Virginia’s new governor campaigned on Medicaid expansion, but now is sending mixed signals
- McAuliffe expected to propose pay raise for state employees and teachers, big boost in cash reserve (“Gov. Terry McAuliffe plans to propose a 2 percent pay raise for state employees and teachers in the second year of the biennial budget he will introduce on Monday, according to a source in the administration.”)
- Ralph Northam Draws Progressive Ire Over Medicaid Comments (“Virginia’s Democratic governor-elect said he wants to expand Medicaid, but he’s concerned about its cost.” Which is a classic Republican talking point.)
- The Republican Party Faces a Roy Moore-Style Humiliation in Virginia (“With three declared candidates for the upcoming Senate primary, Republicans are trying to save as much face as possible, knowing that a loss is likely.”)
- McAuliffe proposes higher taxes in Northern Virginia to support Metro
(Good, let’s do this already!) - More people moving out of Virginia than moving in
- Virginia Woman Mauled To Death By Her Own Dogs During Walk In Woods, Sheriff Says
- GETTING THERE: VDOT offers a peek at possible future of U.S. 301 corridor
- New initiative to benefit SW Va. entrepreneurs
- Editorial: Colleges are one of our natural assets
- Milder weather this week as we close in on Christmas
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