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by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, March 29.
- In a Bid to ‘Take Back Control,’ Britain Lost It (Kinda like “Making America Great Again,” huh? Yep, both countries went crazy in 2016.)
- British Parliament Is Set to Vote, Again, on Withdrawal Plan (“Lawmakers will decide on Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal for a third time, after rejecting it twice by large margins. Today, they vote on the part of the deal that details Britain’s departure from the European Union, leaving longer-term plans to be sorted out later.”)
- The European Union Thinks The UK Is Left With Two Choices After The Last 24 Hours Of Brexit Chaos (“BuzzFeed News has seen a diplomatic note of an EU27 ambassadors meeting on Thursday that states that the UK’s remaining options are no-deal or a long delay to Brexit.”)
- China, U.S. Pore Over Details of Agreement Text to End Trade War
- Pelosi: Barr’s report summary was “condescending” and “arrogant”
- The Mueller report is more than 300 pages long. We’ve seen 101 words (Right, which means any media outlet which has reported on what the Mueller report says is completely full of crap.)
- Poll: After Barr Letter, Overwhelming Majority Wants Full Mueller Report Released (“Overall, three-quarters said the full Mueller report should be made public. That included a majority of Republican…Just 18 percent overall said Barr’s summary is enough.”)
- McConnell to Trump: Health care’s all yours
- How Donald Trump inflated his net worth to lenders and investors (Trump’s been corrupt for a long time, way before he conned his way into the Oval Office.)
- Trump’s Financial Statements Are So Full Of Lies That His Accountants Put a Warning Label on Them
- House Democrats increasingly troubled by Barr’s plan for Mueller report (“House Democrats are on a collision course with Attorney General William Barr as it appears increasingly unlikely he will comply with their demands to see Robert Mueller’s full unredacted report — let alone the evidence that backs it up…It’s all setting up a major confrontation next week if the Justice Department doesn’t send the full Mueller report to Congress by Tuesday, as six committee chairmen have demanded.”)
- Trump Tells Grand Rapids Rally: ‘The Russian Hoax Is Finally Dead’ (Trump is unhinged.)
- Trump Mocks and Jeers Media, Calls For Revenge as Crowd Chants ‘Lock Them Up!’ (This “lock them up” crap is fascistic.)
- Trump finds a new way to accuse his opponents of treason (Autocratic, thuggish talk by our autocratic, thuggish “president”)
- Trump blasts ongoing Dem investigations: ‘Ridiculous bulls—‘ (Actually, that’s a great description of every word out of Trump’s own mouth!)
- Defending Against Accusations of Russian Meddling, Trump Cites ‘All of the Different Things’ (“The president’s falsehoods were almost impossible to track during his Wednesday night interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity”)
- How the Battle Over Israel and Anti-Semitism Is Fracturing American Politics (“Democrats and Republicans reported similar levels of sympathy for Israel from the late 1970s until the early 2000s, but a gap has opened. The growing prominence of a movement to boycott Israel, and its backlash, are widening fault lines from college campuses to Capitol Hill.”)
- Trump’s Treachery Goes Way Beyond Russia (“He’s not working for Putin. He’s working for any dictator who flatters him.”)
- G.O.P. Cruelty Is a Pre-existing Condition (“Republicans just won’t stop trying to take away health care.”)
- Court blocks another Trump attempt to undermine Obamacare (“Judge John Bates of the US District Court in the District of Columbia rejected a Labor Department rule that made it easier for small businesses and some self-employed folks to band together based on their industry or location and buy health insurance.”)
- Inside Trump’s Strategy to Use Mueller on the Campaign Trail (“Republican lawmakers and strategists fear that the president would be fixating on the wrong message at the wrong time.”)
- Shocker: Trump’s Paperwork to Lenders and Investors Wasn’t Always on the Up-and-Up (“Two familiar stories just dropped about Donald Trump, American Tycoon.”)
- The one big takeaway from every 2020 Democratic primary poll (“The 2020 Democratic primary won’t really start until Joe Biden runs — or doesn’t.”)
- “He Has Nowhere to Go but Down”: Democratic Rivals Predict Biden Would Be the Next Hillary (“Biden is the front-runner, but “there’s no intensity there.” So he’s testing gimmicks (Stacey Abrams as VP, a single term) as he runs the numbers on what critics say would be a Clinton-esque disaster.”>)
- Exclusive: Key Trump health official spends millions on GOP-connected consultants (“Seema Verma employs a team of private consultants who write her speeches, polish her brand and travel with her across the country.”)
- Is Pete Buttigieg Just Another White Male Candidate, or Does His Gayness Count as Diversity? (How about we elect the best person for the job?)
- Maryland just became the sixth state to raise the minimum wage to $15 an hour (“Democrats in Maryland just overrode the governor’s veto of the $15 minimum wage bill.”)
- Trump just gave a huge gift to an alleged billion dollar Medicare fraudster (“Perhaps he should have listened to lawyers who actually know what they are talking about.”)
- If the GOP built their ideal health-care system . . . it’d be Obamacare (Remember that the ACA was heavily based on conservative, Republican ideas.)
- Mike Pence, boldly sending America back to where man has gone before (“We should send more robots first.”)
- Holy Moses. Mike Pompeo thinks Trump is Queen Esther. (“Per Trump supporters’ statements, the president is the answer to all our prayers.”)
- The Green New Deal and the case against incremental climate policy (“The only way Democrats can hope to pass climate legislation is by radically shaking up the status quo balance of powers.”)
- The Special Olympics imbroglio once again reveals Betsy DeVos is the worst member of Trump’s Cabinet (“Though there’s a lot of competition.”)
- Trump reverses plan to cut all Special Olympics funding: ‘I’ve overridden my people’
- Laura Ingraham guest: “African-Americans have been here since 1619 … and yet we haven’t fully assimilated African-American citizens” (Pat Buchanan continues to be the racist he’s always been.)
- Trump moves to turn Virginia red amid Democratic meltdown (“The president’s political team is using the state’s elections this year as a test of whether Trump has a shot at flipping the state in 2020.” “‘The Trump campaign should definitely pull resources from Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania to pour into the opportunity they see in Virginia,’ Jesse Ferguson, a Democratic strategist who worked nearly a decade in Virginia politics, said sarcastically. ‘I strongly encourage them to do that.'”)
- Kaine introduces domestic terrorism bill
- Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Rep. Don Beyer Introduce Carbon Cap-and-Dividend Legislation
- FWIW Virginia: Dems on Defense; “Republicans have outspent Democrats online early” (“Flipping the House blue is going to require Democrats to get back on offense, but they’ll need a significantly stronger digital effort and message to make that happen.”)
- Del. Jennifer Carroll Foy: Dominion Energy’s Attempt to Walk Away from Energy Efficiency Commitment Calls Into Question Their Ability to Negotiate in Good Faith (“I pledge to support changes to the law next session to ensure Dominion cannot reverse its commitment to improve energy efficiency and to low-income, elderly and disabled Virginians”)
- College student accuses former Virginia governor L. Douglas Wilder of sexual harassment (“Wilder did not respond to repeated requests for comment over several weeks, including numerous messages left on his cellphone and with his assistant. He also did not answer emails or respond to notes at his two homes and his VCU office. The Post also sent certified letters with detailed questions to his home and office.”)
- PPP Poll Finds Wide Support for Reproductive Rights, Including “Late-Term” Where the Mother’s Health or Life Are at Risk, in Virginia
- Malbon: Pipeline has corrupted our government
- As he talks equity, Gov. Northam continues to ignore Union Hill (“As an advocate of environmental justice, though, I am deeply offended by Dominion’s offer to give a few million dollars to the area in exchange for the permission to place a compressor station in the community.”)
- Editorial: Welccome to Virginia (Yes, the RTD spelled it incorrectly as “Welccome,” not “Welcome.” Do newspapers employ copy editors anymore?)
- Final Results: Blue Virginia’s Online Polls for House of Delegates, State Senate Democratic Primaries
- EDITORIAL: Northam’s flip-flop on sanctuary cities
- Editorial: With I-81, Northam comes back to political life
- Northam amends bill to add more funding for I-81 infrastructure improvements
- Northam, with I-81 near Salem as backdrop, pushes for gas tax increase to fund improvements
- Unlike other ports, Virginia got no money in Trump’s budget for harbor deepening — but options remain
- Racial lines drawn on Portsmouth council after police chief’s ouster (“Publicly, most council members have been quiet about Tonya Chapman’s departure. But they spoke behind closed doors this week.”)
- Softer tone emerges in meetings between community, military over munitions plant pollution
- Man sentenced to life in prison for killing Reston teen, Nabra Hassanen (This horrific case shows that there are truly evil and dangerous people out there, which is why we need effective police forces and top-notch Commonwealth’s Attorneys, like Ray Morrogh in Fairfax County, who advocate tirelessly for the victims and who fight hard for justice in all cases, even with scumbags like Nabra Hassanen’s murderer. Deepest condolences to her family, by the way…I feel so bad for her father, who I saw on the news last night; just completely heartbreaking.)
- motional, Legal Conclusion For Family As Man Sentenced For Murdering Muslim Teen (Again, absolutely heartbreaking. As Commonwealth’s Attorney Ray Morrogh put it, “I think all of us who are moms and dads know that there’s really no greater tragedy that can befall a family than the death of a child…But to have a child taken in this manner, especially such a sweet, wonderful, religious child … the family is obviously devastated and our hearts are with them at this moment and in the future.”)
- Lots of job openings, not enough workers and HQ2 on the way has Fairfax County on edge
- Cost to build three new Richmond schools balloons by $30 million
- Fairfax County Public Schools Superintendent Issues Apology for Student Artwork Depicting Anti-Semitic Stereotypes (“It was not the intent of the artist to offend anyone, but rather to bring to light how the exaggeration of stereotypes spreads ignorance.”)
- UVA gets a scare, survives Oregon with clutch play late; Cavs one game from Final Four (“Freshman Kihei Clark – UVA’s 5-foot-9 point guard – scored 12 points to go with six assists and four rebounds and junior guard Ty Jerome sank a long 3-pointer with 3:34 to go to put the 1-seed Cavaliers up for good as Virginia held off 12th-seeded Oregon, 53-49 on Thursday night at the Yum Center.”)
- In opener, Nats show that, fundamentally, not much has changed
- Warm but rather cloudy today and this weekend. A few rain chances, especially Sunday.
