by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, January 16.
- Krugman: Know-Nothings for the 21st Century (“So will our modern know-nothings prevail? I have no idea. What’s clear, however, is that if they do, they won’t make America great again — they’ll kill the very things that made it great.”)
- Now Chris Christie Is Just a Bad Memory
- Trump’s first-year report card: Voters say he’s no genius (“More than one-third give the president’s performance a failing grade.” Another 11% gave him a “D” and 14% a “C”)
- U.S. Warned Jared Kushner About Wendi Deng Murdoch (The Murdoch family has done a huge amount of damage, possibly as much or even more than the Trump family.)
- Chances of shutdown grow as GOP turns to short-term spending deal for government
- William Barber II and the MLK Legacy of Church-Based Activism
- If Trump Fires Mueller, Republicans Won’t Object (“Democrats believe that the Mueller investigation enjoys the relative safety of a bipartisan consensus that formed behind it last year. Trump cannot fire Mueller or purge the Justice Department, many of them think, because it would be an obvious outrage and a tacit confession of guilt. That understanding may describe the world of 2017. But that world is gone.”)
- Inside the tense, profane White House meeting on immigration (“The meeting was short, tense and often dominated by loud cross-talk and swearing, according to Republicans and Democrats familiar with the meeting.”)
- Democrats say 50 senators have endorsed legislation to overrule the FCC on net neutrality
- Unity of Women’s March Gives Way to Splintering Interests (“Women’s March Inc., which organized the event in Washington, has encouraged more protests. But a new group is focused on winning elections, especially in red states. “)
- Everything You Need to Know About the Government Shutdown Fight (“Trump’s vulgar remarks decreased the odds of reaching a deal by Friday’s deadline”)
- GOP leaders face most difficult shutdown deadline yet
- Dems search for winning playbook (#1 should be getting strong candidates running everywhere.)
- Ryan squeezed by conservatives on DACA vote (“House Republicans want a vote on a partisan immigration bill that leadership fears could undermine negotiations with Democrats.”)
- Trump’s toxic influence goes well beyond the headlines (“The president’s norm-shattering tweets and comments make news, but his steady undermining of democratic values should sound alarms.”)
- Republicans, do you want a race-based immigration system, too? (“Even Trump’s openly racist remarks aren’t enough for some to take a stand.”)
- Trump has revealed who he is. Now it’s our turn. (“He is at war with the central idea of the Republic.”)
- The Democrat Trumpworld fears most (“Former Vice President Joe Biden, however, is seen as someone who could cut into Trump’s base.”)
- Five Decades of White Backlash (“President Trump is the embodiment of over 50 years of resistance to the policies Martin Luther King Jr. fought to enact.”)
- This Is Not a Drill (“The false missile alert in Hawaii reminds us that America is edging closer to a war for which we are not prepared.”)
- The GOP-led Congress is driving the IRS into the ground (“The under-funded agency will be ill-prepared to help taxpayers confused in the wake of tax reform.”)
- Trump’s most consequential accomplishment so far isn’t the tax bill (“It’s the commandeering of truth.”)
- White supremacists to Trump: Welcome back! We still love you (“Daily Stormer proclaims Trump is ‘on the same page as us’; David Duke says president has restored ‘a lot of love'”)
- Watch this pastor deliver a fiery rebuke to Trump’s racist comments — with Pence sitting in the pews (“Hurtful, dehumanizing, visceral, guttural, ugly.”)
- Editorial: In dismissing certain countries, Trump actually insults parts of rural America, too
- Kaine: Offshore drilling puts Hampton Roads at risk
- Editorial: Legislators’ chance for transparency
- Powerful Senate committee kills rate-freeze repeal; awaits Saslaw’s bill (Saslaw, of course, will simply do his master Dominion’s bidding, as he always does.)
- Women’s rights groups urge Virginia to ratify ERA
- Northam tells legislators Medicaid expansion is ‘a matter of basic economic justice’ (He’s right; the problem is that Republicans don’t agree, and they still have control of the General Assembly despite huge gains by Democrats this past November.)
- Senators kill effort to restore state control over Va. electric rates, but promise to revisit the issue
- Gov. Northam spends first workday watching GOP decimate Democratic bills (This is what Republicans do, over and over again, as much as Democrats plead for bipartisanship…)
- Justin Fairfax takes the gavel, presides over state Senate on first work day in elected office
- Proposed bill would change Virginia’s ‘three-strikes’ law on parole eligibility
- Ku Klux Klan fliers — and the hatred they represent — can’t be ignored (“On the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday weekend, Northern Virginia homeowners woke up to America’s festering racism on their driveways.”)
- New Richmond delegate plans to keep job in state government while serving in General Assembly
- Ten Democrats crowd Alexandria council race months before filing deadline (“Six challengers, so far, to take on four incumbents, not counting mayoral primary battle.”)
- Light snow tonight into Wednesday, warmer by the weekend
