by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, October 18.
- Mitch McConnell Blames the Poor for Trump’s Trillion-Dollar Deficit (“‘It’s disappointing, but it’s not a Republican problem,’ says the man who just passed a $1.5 trillion tax cut.” In fact, this is VERY much a Republican problem)
- Trump attacks fuel GOP fears about losing suburban women
- Rod Rosenstein Defends Mueller Probe as ‘Appropriate and Independent’ (“In interview, deputy attorney general says investigation has revealed widespread Russian effort to meddle in 2016 election”)
- How One Journalist’s Death Provoked a Backlash That Thousands Dead in Yemen Did Not (“Any reporter who has covered a humanitarian disaster should understand what Stalin is once reported to have said to a fellow Soviet official: The death of one person is a tragedy, but the death of one million is a statistic. This is why news coverage of a famine or a flood will often highlight the story of one victim.”)
- Trump to meet with Pompeo as Khashoggi crisis engulfs White House
- Biden says Trump “seems to have a love affair with autocrats”
- EPA Boasts Of Reduced Greenhouse Gases, Even As Trump Questions Climate Science (The EPA boasts about stuff that happened in SPITE of the Trump administration. Kinda like the economy. Thanks Obama and Democrats!)
- Voter Turnout Could Hit 50-Year Record For Midterm Elections (Don’t get left out; vote!)
- The President* Is in Violation of His Oath of Office (“It appears Donald Trump is assisting a foreign government in a conspiracy to obstruct justice in the political murder of a resident of the United States.”)
- The Horseface Chronicles (“Try to think of something worse than Trump’s ‘unexpressed thoughts.'”)
- Trump says selling weapons to Saudi Arabia will create a lot of jobs. That’s not true. (“The impact of foreign arms sales on the US economy is minuscule.” Wait, Trump yet again doesn’t have a clue what he’s talking about? I’m shocked, shocked!)
- Republicans were supposed to run on their tax cuts. Instead, they’re running away from them. (“Turns out a tax bill that overwhelmingly benefits rich people and corporations isn’t the most winning issue with voters.” And explodes the deficit/debt!)
- Trump has given every despot on the planet a license to kill (“This is a good time to be a dictator — and a dangerous time to be a dissident.”)
- Saudi Arabia’s information war to bury news of Jamal Khashoggi
- Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression
- U.S. Spy Agencies Are Increasingly Convinced of Saudi Prince’s Ties to Journalist’s Disappearance
- A President Kowtowing to a Mad Prince (“Trump is providing cover for Saudi barbarism.”)
- The rise and fall and rise of the budget deficit (In short, the deficit comes down under Democrats – or even heads into SURPLUS, as it did under Bill Clinton – and explodes under Republicans.)
- Audio Offers Gruesome Details of Jamal Khashoggi Killing, Turkish Official Says
- Trump’s Climate Denial Isn’t Just a War on Our Coastlines. It’s a War on Our Brains.
- Election Update: How The Latest Fundraising Numbers Shifted Our House Forecasts (“And why things barely budged in the Senate.”)
- Prominent evangelical leader on Khashoggi crisis: let’s not risk “$100 billion worth of arms sales” (This evangelical leader, for one, certainly is NOT a follower of Jesus Christ. More like the polar opposite.)
- Mueller’s quiet period has not been very quiet
- McGahn, a Soldier for Trump and a Witness Against Him, Departs White House
- Media Congratulates Trump for Spreading Lie About Elizabeth Warren (“Axios reports that Trump is especially pleased with his insulting of Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren, a contender for the 2020 Democratic nomination. Axios brings us word that behind the scenes the bully-in-chief and his lackeys are chortling about their success.”)
- Former USA Gymnastics President Arrested For Tampering With Nassar Evidence
- Now we can create blue roses. But our real talent is destruction. (“As scientists fiddle with roses, we’re ignoring the crises we’ve inflicted upon the planet.”)
- Wilbur Ross, stop rigging the Census (“The Trump administration should quit trying to depress the immigrant response.”)
- Sanders 2020? Many Bernie backers aren’t feeling it (Yeah, definitely not.)
- How Kamala Harris’ team thinks she can win the 2020 nomination
- Michael Avenatti Is Making Concrete Moves to Run for President in 2020 Against Trump (“…the group made payments to Adam Parkhomenko, a former adviser to Hillary Clinton, for a food and transportation reimbursement worth $1,491.37, and a reimbursement payment of $342.52 to the TRR Group LLC. TRR Group is a firm run by both Parkhomenko and Virginia-based political strategist Ben Tribbett.”)
- “You Can’t Out-Trump Trump”: Elizabeth Warren Shows Democrats How to Lose in 2020 (“Warren’s maneuver stands as a warning sign for other presidential contenders. Getting into the mud pit with Trump—who doesn’t care about political decorum, rules, sexism, racism, name-calling, facts, or reason—has revealed itself as a sucker’s game. Like a scientist trying to argue with a climate-change denier, you’ll just end up drowning in a tide of bad faith.”)
- Is Mattis About To Get Voted Off the Island? (“Insiders believe the Defense secretary’s days are numbered—and that Trump didn’t come up with the idea that Mattis is a Democrat on his own.”)
- How Sen. Mark Warner Wants to Crack Down on Tech (“The Senate Intel Committee’s top Democrat on how government might regulate tech and what his colleagues need to learn to catch up.”)
- “America’s Failure to Lead Is Going to Come Back and Bite Us” (“Sen. Mark Warner wants Congress to get tough with Big Tech. How would he do it?”)
- How Democrats Could Beat Back Voter Suppression at the Ballot Box (“A new crop of Democratic candidates for secretary of state could bolster voting rights.”)
- Fox News’ ad chief admits that advertisers are leaving. Here’s what’s going on. (“Most national advertisers reject Fox News’ most prominent hosts — and with good reason”)
- File This One Under: Racist Stuff From the ’60s Happening in Georgia in 2018 (“And down in Virginia, Scott Taylor’s lost sight of ratfkcing fundamentals.”)
- Georgia mayor goes on racist rant after county stops Black Voters Matter from helping elderly vote (“The mayor works in Jefferson County, where administrators stopped the group from bringing seniors to the polls.”)
- The Coverage of Elizabeth Warren’s Heritage Has Been Completely Distressing (“We’re having the wrong debate about all of this.”)
- Leslie Cockburn (D-VA05) Named to “Red to Blue” List
- #DaveBratSaidThat . . . Whines To Inmates In Addiction Recovery About His Tough Life
- In Virginia House Race, Anonymous Attack Ads Pop Up on Facebook (This is absolutely appalling, also a failure by Facebook: “The ads paint Ms. Wexton as an “evil socialist,” with language and imagery not typically found in even the roughest campaigns. In one ad, which began running on Monday, Ms. Wexton is pictured next to an image of Nazi soldiers, and the ad’s text refers to her supporters as ‘modern-day brown shirts.'”)
- Dominion pays for transfer to state of scenic property in Nelson to compensate for pipeline’s impact on state land (So sweet of them.)
- Former VP Biden to join wife Jill in Newport News
- Advisory council asks Northam to stop pipeline work, but governor passes (“’Governor Northam and his Environmental Chief have now laid waste to any notion this administration and its agencies are capable of doing anything but advancing the business of the fracked gas industry,’ the Protect Our Water Heritage Rights Coalition said in a statement Wednesday after the letter was released.”)
- Long-Time Arlington Political Guru Predicts Record Voter Turnout, Tim Kaine with 80% of Arlington Vote, Victory for Dem County Board Candidate Matt de Ferranti
- Virginia’s pipeline projects and the aura of inevitability
- Virginia spaceport to grow with new launch pad for California company
- CASEY: Absentee voting’s up in Virgina; will the number of late, uncounted ballots rise, too?
- Nohe running for Prince William County board chair in 2019 election (Once we kick Corey’s butt on 11/6, we need to turn our focus to ending his political career completely.)
- Gerrymandering runs deep in Virginia’s roots, CNU professor says
- Hampton Roads Transit to rethink services, foster more regional collaboration
- Sunny and brisk today, and then another cool surge by Sunday
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