Sunday News: “Roy Moore’s horror show”; “Weekend Update”; “Virginia’s House election is irreparably tainted”

by Lowell

Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, December 10.

• Roy Moore’s horror show (“The Alabama Senate candidate is using an array of liberal bogeymen to rouse Republican voters to the polls.”)
• Why Democrats win even if they lose in Alabama (“The party will either pick up a seat in the Deep South — or have Roy Moore to campaign against in the midterms.”)
• Donald Trump, Roy Moore, and the Degradation of the G.O.P. (“In less than a year, the President, with help from the Alabama Senate candidate, has so damaged the Party that it may never recover.”)
• GOP tax plan diverges wildly from Trump’s promises to the middle class (Yep, Trump was lying through his teeth.)
• Bitter Senate showdown turns into a referendum on Alabama’s identity
• Why there are no good outcomes for GOP in Alabama
• Jeff Sessions Will Waste Your Tax Dollars for the Foreseeable Future (“Investigations into scandals that don’t exist: The Republican way.”)
• Even subdued, Trump overshadows Mississippi civil rights museum opening (“The focus was on Trump’s record on civil rights, and not the heroes themselves.” Trump is a racist, what “record on civil rights?”)
• Trump watches up to eight hours of TV per day: report (How the hell can the PRESIDENT be watching TV at all, let alone eight hours, let alone the far-right propaganda Trump watches??? Impeach this f***tard already!)
• Trump Thinks People Should Be Fired for Misrepresenting the Truth on Twitter(Trump and his spokespeople have done just that a gazillion times, so apparently should all be fired. Works for me!)
• Forgetting his efforts to limit voter access, Trump lauds voting rights heroes (“That is big stuff, that is big stuff. Very big phrases, very big words.” WTF??? This guy has the IQ of a very dull 1st grader.)
• As Trump assaults American democracy, Obama warns it could collapse, follow path of Nazi Germany (“Trump responded to chants of ‘Lock her up’ at a Florida rally by railing against what he called a ‘rigged’ and ‘sick’ system.”)
• Is Trump going to fire Mueller? 6 disturbing signs. (Then what would happen?)
• Fox News’ Laura Ingraham laments that #MeToo movement is ‘killing all the fun’ of Christmas parties (My god…this is a real person?)
• Days before election, Roy Moore disappears from campaign trail
• Inside Trump’s Hour-by-Hour Battle for Self-Preservation (“With Twitter as his Excalibur, the president takes on his doubters, powered by long spells of cable news and a dozen Diet Cokes. But if Mr. Trump has yet to bend the presidency to his will, he is at least wrestling it to a draw.”)
• White Nationalists Have Been Saying ‘Diversity Is Not Our Strength’ For Years (“Rep. Steve King’s latest tweet once again puts him in the company of neo-Nazis, KKK members and fascists.”)
• A battle for public opinion: Trump goes to war over Mueller and Russia (“In recent days, the rightwing media and Trump loyalists have been scrambling to discredit the special counsel and smear his Russia inquiry as a liberal plot”)
• Trump attacks ‘vicious, fake news CNN’ after correction to WikiLeaks email story
• With 2020 Census Looming, Concerns Grow Over Accuracy
• Editorial: The Looting of America’s Public Lands
• Virginia’s $40 Toll Road Better Be the Future of Driving (“The nice thing about congestion charges isn’t just that they can encourage people to take public transit, or at least to carpool, but that they make drivers pay for their role in creating traffic and spewing greenhouse gases. Forty bucks is a lot for a toll, but it just might be the fair price for the right to drive by yourself down a majorly busy highway. The scourge we know as traffic costs the American economy about $125 billion to traffic per year, according to traffic analytics company Inrix.”)
• Did Va. Gov. McAuliffe and his transportation team mislead I-66 commuters on tolling? Not really, but his team could have been more clear.
• Complaints over local mail delivery grow
• Speaker Plum? Longest-serving member of Virginia House eyes top job if Democrats win majority (Plum has been a solid liberal, but never thought of him as Speaker or Democratic Leader or…)
• Editorial: Lawmakers need to support redistricting improvements
• Schapiro: Keep your eye on the little picture
• After bruising losses, Virginia Republicans gather to find path out of wilderness ahead of 2018 (Corey Stewart and Ewwww Jackson will lead the way! LOL)
• Virginia’s House election is irreparably tainted (“A federal judge should order a redo in a Northern Virginia district where voters were misassigned.”)
• New delegates push for more transparency, stronger FOIA laws in Virginia (“Advocates say the state’s public-records law has too many exemptions and charges far too much.” “In Fairfax, Benjamin Tribbett, a former chief of staff to Supervisor Kathy Smith (D-Chantilly), said a county attorney once told new employees during a training session to regularly delete emails and explained how communications that include the county attorney’s office fall under attorney-client privilege and would not be subject to disclosure.”)
• Still have questions about the new I-66 toll lanes? We’re here to help.
• Veteran Latino lawmaker criticized for work with immigrant detention center (“Del. Alfonso H. Lopez (D-Arlington) is known as an advocate for immigrants, but activists angered by his work are calling for an apology and action in the General Assembly.”)
• Outgoing Speaker of the House Howell offers life lessons at VCU’s fall commencement (What, be a leading member of ALEC, like Bill “ALEC” Howell, and exemplify the corrupt, malaria-infested “swamp” of business interests and government officials?)
• Editorial: Some global lessons for Roanoke (“We are not Silicon Valley, and never will be.”)
• D.C.-area forecast: A couple snow shower chances amidst a cold and sometimes windy pattern