by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, January 22.
- Workweek begins as shutdown rolls into third day (“Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) delayed a vote on a short-term spending bill until noon today after lawmakers were unable to forge a deal on immigration and federal funding. “)
- A President Not Sure of What He Wants Complicates the Shutdown Impasse (The Art of the Dumbass.)
- Shutdown Goes Into Monday as Senate Inches Toward Deal
- Stephen Miller, a hard-liner on immigration, is at the center of the fight over ‘dreamers’ (This guy’s an extremist and a xenophobe. The fact that he’s advising Trump tells you all you need to know about this presidency and this party.)
- Don’t buy the spin. Government works. (“Anti-government bias is enhanced by our failure to revisit government’s successes.”)
- Genocide, famine and a democratic retreat — all after one year of U.S. inaction
- Bipartisan Group of Senators Hoping for Breakthrough on Shutdown (“Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said what’s needed from leadership is ‘a commitment to take up immigration.'”)
- Graham: Stephen Miller makes immigration deal impossible
- ‘Dealmaker in chief’ largely absent in weekend shutdown negotiations (Only Trump CAN’T fix it!)
- Trump Got Us Into This Shutdown Mess, GOP Doesn’t Want His Help Getting Out Of It
- Did Two White House Advisers Help Push Trump Toward a Shutdown? (“John Kelly and Stephen Miller, two immigration hard-liners, have played a central role in Trump’s shifting positions.”
So much for Kelly being the “adult in the room.”) - Lobbyists Romp in Trump’s Washington (The “swamp” has expanded “bigly” under Trump.)
- Blow: Shutdown, Showdown, Sure Thing (“Donald Trump proved himself both woefully inept at making tough deals and also demonstrated that his yearlong strategy of trying to govern to the exclusion of Democrats and playing to a narrow base is fatally flawed.”)
- Paul Ryan Collected $500,000 In Koch Contributions Days After House Passed Tax Law (“That’s peanuts compared with what the Koch brothers will save.”)
- Democrats Are Doing the Right Thing (“Capitulating on DACA would mean abdicating the party’s moral responsibilities.”)
- The religious activists on the rise inside Trump’s health department (Scary shit.)
- Listen: Former RNC chairman on GOP miscalculations (“…former Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele says his party may be miscalculating when it comes to the long-term consequences of alienating immigrants and voters of color. Leading Democrats, he added, are overconfident that anti-Trumpism is a sure path to victory.”)
- Trump campaign ad says Democrats are “complicit” in murders committed by undocumented immigrants (“Paul Ryan isn’t sure if the race-baiting ad is ‘necessarily productive’ in shutdown talks” Appalling and unforgivable.)
- Mitch McConnell thinks Democrats are very dumb (“McConnell’s empty promise, explained.”)
- Who is responsible for the shutdown? GOP Senator points finger at White House. (“Pointing the finger directly at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.”)
- Morning Joe explains why shutdown chaos proves Trump’s staff believe he’s a ‘blubbery old fool’
- Government shutdown: Republicans float minor immigration deal to end ‘Dreamers’ deadlock
- What happens when a party becomes unmoored from the truth and the American creed
- Women and independents drive advantage for Democrats ahead of midterm elections, Post-ABC poll finds (“By 51 percent to 39 percent, more registered voters say they would support the Democratic candidate in their congressional district over the Republican. Democrats’ 12 percentage-point advantage on this ‘generic ballot’ question is the largest in Post-ABC polling since 2006, although it is slightly larger than other polls this month.”)
- Virginia Sen. Tim Kaine tries to pass Continuing Resolution to reopen the government
- Gov. Northam Marks Anniversary of Roe v. Wade (“Gov. Ralph Northam continues his longtime support for women’s reproductive rights, by rallying alongside women at the State Capitol today on the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.”)
- Editorial: Give governors chance for re-election
- Robert M. Blue column: ‘Grid transformation’ will help meet today’s higher energy expectations (All you need to know about this pro-Dominion propaganda is that it was written by Robert M. Blue, executive vice president and CEO of Dominion Energy Power Delivery Group.)
- Editorial: Why 10 Senate Democrats were wrong about the Patrick County hospital bill (Perhaps, but the ones who are really wrong are Republicans opposing Medicaid expansion.)
- Botetourt Del. Terry Austin to miss part of session for surgery (“Austin’s absence will accentuate the close political divide in Virginia’s House of Delegates, bringing Republicans down to a temporary, 50-49 majority in the Assembly’s lower chamber…With the House of Delegates off to a slow start this session, and little legislation having made its way to the House floor as yet, Austin’s departure likely won’t have a major effect .”)
- Richmond’s public housing director resigns amid criticism of agency’s slow response to heat outages
- 60s to start the week, 40s midweek, 50s by the weekend
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