by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Saturday, March 2.
- Two days in July: As Republicans convened in Cleveland, did Trump receive a heads-up about WikiLeaks?
- Trump intervened to get Kushner a top-secret clearance. Congress should investigate.
- Trump Claims He Was Totally “Misinterpreted” When He Said Kim Wasn’t Responsible for Otto Warmbier’s Death (Riiiiiight.)
- Otto Warmbier Parents Hit Out at Trump for Backing Kim Jong Un
- Trump’s nonsense on Otto Warmbier is mind-numbing and outrageous (“Otto Warmbier’s parents righteously call out Trump for taking sides with their son’s torturers.”)
- You can’t solve North Korea’s nuclear challenge if you ignore its torture chambers (“The diplomatic disaster ought to make clear once and for all that the U.S. strategy on North Korea won’t work.”)
- On the critically endangered list: The Principled Republican
- The week democracy struck back (“The Cohen hearing and Netanyahu indictment news shows that liberal democracy still has some fight in it.”)
- Manafort seeks sentence well below guidelines in Virginia case (Why should the judge grant that?)
- ‘Dems in Disarray’ Is an Exhausting and Flawed Beltway Meme (“This time, the Washington Post finds an explosion! over the House Democrats’ universal background check bill.”)
- SpaceX rocket with unmanned U.S. capsule blasts off for space station (“…a key milestone for Elon Musk’s space company and NASA’s long-delayed goal to resume human spaceflight from U.S. soil later this year.”)
- </The average worker isn’t seeing Trump’s “economic miracle.” Here’s why.a>
- Trump, Kim, Cohen, and the Limits of the President’s Power (“Cohen’s dramatic excoriation of Trump, and Trump’s failed diplomacy in North Korea, exposed the President’s inability to muscle reality into submission.”)
- Pelosi aide: Dems ‘will take all necessary steps’ to get Trump’s tax returns
- Pelosi, AOC Warn Moderate Democrats to Stop Voting With the GOP (“[Alexandria] Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), the unquestioned media superstar of the freshman class, upped the ante, admonishing the moderates and indicating she would help liberal activists unseat them in the 2020 election.”)
- Top House Democrat: Hannity should testify under oath about hush-money scheme
- Roger Stone Judge Wants to Know Why She Wasn’t Told About Book (It’s truly amazing and revealing how Trump only seems to attract the worst, scummiest people.)
- Deficit-swelling Trump White House plans to use deficit against Democrats (“After mostly brushing off deficit concerns for two years, the White House now plans to reposition itself as an unlikely enforcer of fiscal responsibility.” Yet ANOTHER big lie from Republicans, just like “infanticide,” climate denial, etc.)
- New debt showdown begins for Trump, Democrats
- Michelle Malkin Goes After the ‘Ghost of John McCain’ at CPAC, Gets Ovation (CPAC is a demented freak show.)
- ‘Trump will win, 100%’: conservatives on socialism, Bernie Sanders and 2020 (“Once deeply resistant to the president, the annual CPAC convention is now like a religious gathering full of Trump idolatry” Yep, demented freak show.)
- CPAC Is Now Just a Minor-League Scrap to Get on Fox News (“If you’re going to serve a sitting Republican senator with a subpoena, that’s where it should be.”)
- Trump’s Base Clings Tight Despite Rising Tide of Troubles
- Sanders to Launch 2020 Campaign From Brooklyn Hometown
- Jay Inslee Wants to Be the First Climate President. Is America Ready?
- Fox News won’t run an anti-Nazi ad, but will let Laura Ingraham compare Planned Parenthood to Hitler
- Boris Epshteyn calls Michael Cohen a “rat” in a Sinclair must-run segment airing across the country (Another reminder not to watch Sinclair-produced news, such as on WJLA-7 in the DC metro area.)
- GOP’s anti-Muslim display likening Rep. Omar to a terrorist rocks W. Virginia capitol (“Angry arguments broke out in the West Virginia statehouse on Friday after the state Republican Party allegedly set up an anti-Muslim display in the rotunda linking the 9/11 terror attacks to a freshman congresswoman from Minnesota.” Yep, the GOP is the party of bigots of all types.)
- Donald Trump Pulled One Over on America, But He Couldn’t Sucker the NFL (“If Trump was worth what he said he was, he could easily have afforded the Buffalo Bills. He never even bid—but he did find the time to spread fake news before he dropped out.”)
- Luria, Spanberger Among Cook’s Most Vulnerable Democrats (Yep, those are purple districts.)
- A Month After Scandal, How Virginia’s Northam Governs (“Democrat Ralph Northam has been quietly running the state while avoiding the media and making few public appearances”)
- Schapiro: Virginia’s incredible vanishing governor
- Editorial: A reading list for Gov. Northam
- Northam weathers chaotic month as lawmakers urge him to action on reconciliation
- ‘That did not happen’: Virginia’s ‘cotton situation’ misrepresented, some parents and pages say (“First lady Pam Northam did not focus on black students as she handed out raw cotton during several back-to-back presentations on slavery at the Executive Mansion, according to interviews with several legislative pages and their parents.” The top comment on the WaPo story: “Seems to me this also highlights how irresponsible and poorly reported the original piece by Laura [Vozzella] and Greg Schneider was. Perhaps they need to put some corrections in that piece and apologize to Jonathan Capehart for their reporting which led him to author such an ill informed editorial in today’s Post. I read Wapo because it usually has great reporting. In this case, its reporters clearly missed the mark the first time around. “)
- Video: Live From the State Water Control Board Meeting in Richmond [UPDATE: Cries of “Cowards” and “Shame” as Board Decides NOT to Consider Revoking MVP Permit]
- After hours behind closed doors, State Water Control Board decides not to revoke Mountain Valley Pipeline certification (“’This project, now under criminal investigation, has been incredibly harmful to the livelihoods of scores of Virginians, but it seems that state regulators and lawyers pressured the board into inaction,’ [Harrison] Wallace [of the Chesapeake Climate Action Network] wrote.”)
- State water board reverses course again on Mountain Valley Pipeline
- “Mad as Hell” Gene Rossi Rips Ralph Northam (“Larry”) and Justin Fairfax (“Moe”), Says Both Need to Go; Might Run for Governor or Lt. Governor in 2021
- Federal appeals court raises concerns over Dominion Energy’s power lines by historic Jamestown (How about the compressor station historic Union Hill?)
- Gov. Northam signs bills aimed at reducing evictions in Virginia
- When It Comes to At-Large School Board Candidates, Fairfax Republicans Really Show Their True Colors. And They Ain’t Pretty.
- Del. Danica Roem Demonstrates How to Respond to the Right-Wing Trolls, Anti-LGBT Bigots of the “Westboro Baptist Church”
- Apparently, in Virginia, it’s ‘Chairman,’ not ‘Chairwoman’
- 3 Norfolk school board members met to discuss dysfunction. 3 others walked out.
- Protest Over Virginia School’s Slave Activity Breaches Security: Sheriff’s Office (“Authorities say a group claiming to be part of the Black Panther Party protested inside a Loudoun County, Virginia, school where teachers instructed students to pretend to be slaves for a gym activity last month…When deputies arrived they found the group, wearing all black, was calm while leaving the school. They were compliant and told the deputies they were with the Black Panther Party, the sheriff’s office said.”)
- Rain out? Arlington schools drew ire for weather-related closure (“Dozens of people took to Facebook and Twitter to criticize the decision, calling it absurd, ridiculous, outrageous and embarrassing. Some said the move unnecessarily put working parents in a bind.”)
- Loudoun Officials Investigating Downed Trees At Trump Golf Course
- Security guard guilty of second-degree murder in Chesapeake Pokemon Go shooting
- D.C.-area forecast: Dry but still rather cloudy today, and another wintry mix is on the way for Sunday
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