by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Thursday, November 17. Also check out Hillary Clinton’s speech last night at the Children’s Defense Fund. Just a reminder that she would have been an infinitely better President than Trump. I’d also note that Clinton continues to widen her popular vote lead over Trump, now up to 1.34 million!
- A Potential Cabinet Pick Is Trailed by Racial Comments (“Accusations of racial comments doomed the 1986 court nomination of Jeff Sessions, an Alabama senator under consideration for attorney general or defense secretary.”)
- Trump Disputes Reports of Disarray (“The transition effort ‘is going so smoothly,’ Mr. Trump wrote.” Whatever.)
- Hillary Clinton, in Emotional Speech, Implores Supporters to Keep Believing in America
- Trump’s Tangled Web (“Unless Mr. Trump divests his businesses, there will be no way to know if his actions in office are for the public good or for his own financial gain.”)
- Democrats May Try Surprising Strategy: Align With Trump (“Democrats will try to find common cause with Donald J. Trump on infrastructure spending, child tax credits and dismantling trade agreements.”)
- Hateful acts are on the rise, and it’s Trump’s responsibility to take a stand
- Take Trump seriously and literally (“Let him prove his pragmatism, regarding both means and ends, instead of assuming it.”)
- The United States needs to hold Russia accountable for its aggression
- At GWU, Sanders says, ‘We can stop Mr. Trump . . . from doing bad things’ (“Sanders says he’ll support ideas from Trump ‘that make sense for working people.'”)
- The Alliance for the Republic we so badly need (“The country could use a new kind of bipartisanship to push back against the Trump administration’s anti-democratic messages.”)
- Intraparty fratricide looms over the GOP
- It’s up to the Senate to check Trump’s worst instincts (“There must be a bipartisan push to keep extreme policies at bay.”)
- In Trump’s Washington, rival powers and whispers in the president’s ear
- Colbert mocks Trump’s cabinet intrigue: ‘It’s like Game of Thrones but nobody wants to watch them have sex’
- The Democrats Are Screwing Up the Resistance to Donald Trump (“Warren and Sanders are wrong, and in a way that signals a significant misreading of the landscape on the part of the most influential Democrats. The simple truth is that Trump’s use of explicit racism—his deliberate attempt to incite Americans against different groups of nonwhites—was integral to his campaign”)
- Key Republican Puts Dagger In Push To End Filibusters (“Orrin Hatch, the most senior GOP senator, says it’s vital to protect minority party rights.”)
- Trump surrogate cites Japanese internment camps as precedent for Muslim registry
- Bankers celebrate dawn of Trump era (“A populist candidate who railed against shady financial interests on the trail is putting together an administration that looks like an investment banker’s dream.” Yep, great job white working class, you really told ’em now!)
- GOP learning wrong lessons from Trump win, Republicans fear (“Republican strategists say Trump’s intense reliance on white voters is not a long-term model for success.”)
- Trump transition appears to have flouted internal ethics rule on lobbyists (Shocker!)
- Normalizing the abnormal: NPR begins its whitewashing of Breitbart’s racism
- Donald Trump ditches press pool so he can tell people at a fancy steak house he’ll lower their taxes
- Americans’ Satisfaction With U.S. Makes a U-Turn (“Americans’ satisfaction with the way things are going in the U.S. plunged 10 percentage points in the aftermath of the presidential election”)
- The Clinton Campaign Was Undone By Its Own Neglect And A Touch Of Arrogance, Staffers Say (“In key battleground states, calls for help weren’t taken seriously enough.”)
- China To Donald Trump: Climate Change Is Not A Chinese Hoax (That this even has to be said demonstrates how completely unfit Trump is to hold elective office, let alone the presidency…)
- Good Luck Working Class (“Nice work, Rust Belt! Trump’s high court is almost certain to undercut labor organizing and workplace rights”)
- The hate divide: Hate crimes are up, up, up and Trump supporters want to deny, deny, deny
- Kris Kobach, Donald Trump transition team member, resurrects failed Muslim registry plan from “War on Terror” (This guy is basically an even worse version, if possible, of Ken Cuccinelli.)
- House Democrats Begin Long Soul-Searching Process (“House Democrats are optimistic that historical tradition will be on their side in 2018.” Yeah, I wouldn’t be…)
- Here’s what happened when state directors for Trump and Clinton sat down for a chat. (“My beef with the coverage of the race is the concept of false equivalency,” Zuzenak said. “Emails do not equate to sexual assault and that’s as simple as that.” Zuzenak is 100% correct. I also tend to agree with him on public polls sucking, although obviously they can’t be banned: “Public polling should be banned. It serves no purpose other than to create an artificial horserace and to get people to click, to get people to buy newspapers.”)
- Sen. Mark Warner urges Trump to keep Obama’s Defense secretary (“He also raises concerns about the president-elect’s tax cut plans, saying: ‘a quick sugar high with a tax cut that’s unpaid for when we’ve already got $19 trillion in debt is really unsustainable.'”)
- Joint panel in Virginia to monitor health care policy changes under Trump administration
- Casey: Audit of economic development agency is a doozy
- Our view: Jefferson is now banned at UVa??!! (“This is a joke, right?”)
- Editorial: Without Jefferson, there is no U.Va.
- A devastating report on the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (“A watchdog says the agency could have been susceptible to fraud for two decades”)
- Virginia opens new marketing office in South Korea
- Trump’s coal promises not seen changing much on the Peninsula
- Editorial: Virginian should lead the Navy (Forbes is a nut, but at least he knows the Navy.)
- Richmond sheriff’s deputy says he regrets sending anti-Trump protester ‘offensive message’ on Facebook
- Metro’s SafeTrack could cost twice as much as expected and likely won’t conclude until June (“A new report from outside consultants said Metro is taking steps to improve the quality of repairs.”)
- Richmond’s City Council wants funding formula for schools changed
- Norfolk Treasurer Anthony Burfoot feared federal agents had bugged his office, witness says
- Rep. Don Beyer Tells News-Press Why Election Day Went as It Did
- Loudoun County schools promise ‘inclusive’ environment in wake of election
- Virginia Beach headed back to drawing board on future of transportation in the city
- Virginian-Pilot editorial: Tunnel tolls remain a raw deal for Virginia
- Editorial: Economic anticipation
- Warm spell ousted Saturday night leading to a downright chilly Sunday
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