by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Tuesday, March 20.
- Trump would love to fire Mueller. But here’s why he’s been afraid to so far. (“Firing Mueller would be much more procedurally complicated and legally challenging than firing Comey or Tillerson…Firing Mueller does not mean ending the Mueller investigation…Firing Mueller would unleash the leaks…A Trump cover-up could improve Democrats’ chances of retaking Congress — which would worsen the president’s legal woes”)
- Trump’s lawyers have turned over documents to Mueller with hopes of limiting interview scope
- Senior Facebook Official to Exit Over Dispute on Russian Ploys (Facebook needs to be strictly regulated or shut down.)
- Republicans Can’t Understand Why Trump Is Acting Guilty (See “Razor, Occam’s” in the dictionary.)
- Mueller pens Trump in as he slips restraints elsewhere
- Why McConnell hasn’t said anything on Trump’s Mueller attacks
- Revealed: Trump’s election consultants filmed saying they use bribes and sex workers to entrap politicians
- Trump’s attacks on law enforcement are escalating. Here’s how Republicans could protect Mueller.
- It’s not your imagination. Trump is getting worse. (“Perhaps he senses that Mueller is closing in. Or perhaps he is just hopelessly overwhelmed by the job.”)
- Stormy Daniels — not Robert Mueller — might spell Trump’s doom
- We are not ‘globalists.’ We’re Americans. (“The Trump administration is an assault on America’s self-conception.”)
- Putin’s next term could be even more dangerous (“Domestic troubles could make the newly reelected Russian president a bigger threat.”)
- Krugman: Trump and Trade and Zombies (“These days, Republicans are a party of zombie ideas — ideas that should have died long ago, yet still keep shambling along, eating politicians’ brains…Anyway, on international economics the Trump administration is now on track for a battle of the zombies — a fight between two sets of bad ideas that refuse to die. Pass the popcorn.”)
- The Mueller Gamble (“Republicans think they can dissuade Donald Trump from firing Robert Mueller.”)
- All hail Ryan Zinke, our imperial viceroy (“He runs his department much like a 19th-century colonial governor.”)
- Uber Halts Tests of Self-Driving Cars After Pedestrian Dies
- How Fox News made Andrew McCabe a “deep state” villain (Evil as always. By the way, what the right wingnuts call the “deep state” is actually what most of us know as “rule of law.”)
- Mississippi’s Governor Just Signed the Nation’s Most Restrictive Abortion Bill (Unconstitutional and disgraceful.)
- Trump doctors quote in desperate effort to smear Comey, undermine Mueller investigation (“Why Trump is working overtime to discredit Comey.”)
- Pennsylvania GOP’s last chance to keep gerrymandered map goes up in smoke (“The new map, which aims to create more party parity, is now final.”)
- GOP fears another potential electoral disaster (“The national GOP is flummoxed over what to do about the surging candidacy of coal baron and ex-con Don Blankenship.” Who on earth would vote for this cartoon villain?)
- GOP leaders back second special counsel (F*** that.)
- The Memo: Republicans fear disaster if Trump fires Mueller
- Fox’s Napolitano: McCabe firing could be seen as obstruction of justice (Fox is correct about something for once???)
- The Wildness in Our Country Continues Unabated in Austin (“This is our American way of life.”)
- U.S. Plans Heavy China Tariff Hit as Soon as This Week (“American businesses warn move could hurt U.S. economy” It will. Badly.)
- Trump’s Confidence Game (“After a year of uncertainty and unhappiness, the president is reportedly feeling more comfortable—but has he really mastered the job?”)
- Senator Tim Kaine Quit Acting Guilty, Mr. President
- Austin has been hit by 4 bombs in 3 weeks. The president is silent.
- Cambridge Analytica Is Not an Anomaly
- How Facebook Made Its Cambridge Analytica Data Crisis Even Worse (“CEO Zuckerberg, COO Sandberg remained silent amid controversy”)
- Package bound for Austin explodes at FedEx facility: fire department
- Facebook’s value slides by $36bn as data breach rocks shares – as it happened (100% would be nice)
- Sean Hannity brought his propaganda to Fox & Friends and Donald Trump was thrilled (Sick shit.)
- The Last Kids Locked Up in Virginia (“The state’s juvenile-detention system is shrinking. But it still has one of the highest recidivism rates in the country.”)
- Trump Doesn’t Understand the Opioid Crisis. Just Check Out His Latest Proposal. (“If we don’t get tough on the drug dealers, we’re wasting our time.”)
- Warner: Cambridge Analytica Needs to Testify
- Congress must draw ‘red line’ to protect Mueller, warn Trump against firing and pardons: Mark Warner
- Stewart loses two weekend ‘straw polls’ for GOP senate nod (“Stewart, R-At Large, finished second to Del. Nick Freitas, of Culpeper, in a poll taken during the Prince William County Republican Committee’s Lincoln-Reagan Dinner held Saturday. Stewart was also bested by Freitas in what was almost a head-to-head matchup at the Virginia Tea Party’s spring conference held over the weekend in Richmond.”)
- Column | Federal budget cuts could harm ocean, Chesapeake Bay
- The fight for information (“Citizens scored a victory, but there are still more battles ahead in the quest for transparency in Virginia This year the Virginia Supreme Court’s Office of the Executive Secretary will finally hand over a database of court records the Daily Press has spent close to three years requesting.”)
- Virginia’s Medicaid impasse, courtesy of the GOP (“Richmond Republicans turn on each other and risk a government shutdown.”)
- In his first two vetoes, Northam nixes bills to cap state legal fees and change franchise labor law (Glad he vetoed the franchise labor law bill. Don’t know enough about the other one to say.)
- Editorial: The NRA moderates. Will abortion-rights groups? (I included this Republican Times-Disgrace editorial for only one reason — to remind everyone that this is a far, far-right editorial page. BTW, they also think that climate-science-denying, far-right freak George Will is a “beautiful” writer! LOL)
- Bird Lovers Protest Dominion’s Tree Cutting Plan
- Editorial: Lack of broadband may cost some of these workers their jobs
- Virginia holding statewide tornado drill Tuesday morning
- Editorial: Henrico points the way toward opioid solutions
- Stoney hires former RRHA spokeswoman, RTD reporter as senior policy adviser
- Richmond City Council advances $927,000 in increases, proposes $1.52 million in cuts to Stoney’s budget
- Williams: Now that Richmond appears to be moving on from the Washington Redskins training camp, what’s next?
- Wintry mix sours spring’s first day, then a significant snow risk Wednesday
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