by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Friday, March 3.
- The Administration’s Russia Scandal Shows No Sign of Stopping (“Will Jeff Sessions meet the same fate as Michael Flynn?”)
- Jeff Sessions Needs To Go (“His dissembling news conference raised more questions than it answered.”)
- Sessions could face legal ordeal over testimony (“Lawyers say he’s at greater risk if a special counsel takes over Trump-Russia probe”)
- Attorney General Jeff Sessions will recuse himself from any probe related to 2016 presidential campaign (Not sufficient; he needs to step down.)
- Analysis: Could Sessions face perjury charges? Former federal prosecutors think not.
- Trump’s Many Shades of Contempt (“It’s reminiscent of the developing countries where I’ve served. The family rules everything, and the Ministry of Foreign affairs knows nothing.”)
- Trump’s presidency can’t shake Russia’s shadow
- Sessions’s puzzling news conference (“Sessions answered one big question but raised many others with rather off-color and casual comments about the matter.”)
- There was nothing ‘presidential’ about Trump’s speech (“Even at his best, the president isn’t sounding like the leader of a democracy.”)
- Recusal is not enough for Jeff Sessions (“Justice demands a special prosecutor.”)
- Democrats on House Judiciary Committee want criminal investigation of Sessions (“Perjury is a felony.”)
- Postpone the Gorsuch Hearings (“His nomination to the Supreme Court cannot be separated from the serious questions that plague the Trump presidency.”)
- Aboard aircraft carrier in Newport News, Trump calls for ‘great rebuilding’ of American military (Stupid as always; we should be pouring money into education, clean energy, infrastructure, etc. — not more weapons which we don’t need.)
- Throwing more money at the military won’t make it stronger (“The Pentagon is already bloated. We need more civilian specialists.”)
- Trump’s infrastructure plan could run into a big problem: Democracy (“Americans want better highways, but not bulldozers in their back yards.” Actually, we need high-speed rail and top-notch transit, not more highways.)
- Democrats help confirm Ben Carson to Trump’s cabinet (There is no MARK excuse for any Democrat WARNER to have voted for Ben Carson.)
- Rep. Schiff accuses Comey of withholding information on Russia probe (“The ranking member on the House intelligence panel warns that lawmakers may have to subpoena the FBI.”)
- Sessions Needs to Go (“President Trump has already fired his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, for misleading Vice President Pence about his conversations with the Russians. Misleading the United States Senate in testimony under oath is at least as serious. We do not yet know all the facts, but we know enough to see that Attorney General Sessions has to go as well.”)
- Krugman: Goodbye Spin, Hello Raw Dishonesty (“But then you watch something like the way much of the news media responded to Mr. Trump’s congressional address, and you feel despair. It was a speech filled with falsehoods and vile policy proposals, but read calmly off the teleprompter — and suddenly everyone was declaring the liar in chief ‘presidential.'” Have I mentioned recently how bad TV and Beltway pundits, like Chris Cillizza, suck? Oh yeah, I guess I have…)
- Paul Ryan’s Misguided Sense of Freedom (That’s Lyin’ Ryan for ya.)
- Jeff Sessions Used Political Funds for Republican Convention Expenses
- Pence used personal email for state business — and was hacked (But…but…but…Hillary’s EMAILS, Chris Cillizza and other imbeciles say!)
- What Putin Is Up To (“And why he may have overplayed his hand”)
- Trump’s racist hypocrisy: Sessions scandal exposes double standard behind dog-whistle calls for “law and order” (“Despite Trump’s ‘law and order’ rhetoric, it’s increasingly clear his administration has no respect for the law”)
- Bush ethics lawyer: Trump’s Russia scandal so far is “much worse” than the early stages of Watergate
- “We cannot find the bill”: inside the frantic hunt for the GOP Obamacare replacement (Morons.)
- GOP takes heat for ObamaCare secrecy
- Rand Paul blasts GOP for keeping ObamaCare bill in ‘secure location’
- The Big Question: Why Were Sessions And Other Trump Officials Talking To Russia?
- Donald Trump Jr. “likely” received $50,000 in speaking fees from a group with ties to Russia (Most corrupt administration ever?)
- Now that he’s confirmed, Rick Perry has a big decision to make about the Energy Department
- Sexual Consent Education May Be Added to Virginia High School Lessons
- Virginia Supreme Court hears transgender bathroom case
- Virginia is the first state to legalize delivery robots
- Leaders join protest against ICE arrests in Alexandria
- Democrats still looking for answers on immigration arrests (“At a news conference Thursday, critics including Virginia senator and former Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Kaine said the Trump administration’s reassurances that it continues to follow the policy protecting sensitive locations ring hollow in light of the arrests at Rising Hope.”)
- Editorial: Va. presses fight against addiction
- Editorial: A chance to make Virginia less ridiculous
- LG candidate Reeves wants lawyers to question Vogel neighbors, supporters about email alleging affair
- Republicans shrug off governor’s offer to seek nonpartisan redistricting (“House of Delegates leaders believe they’ll prevail in court challenge despite setback”)
- McAuliffe urges GOP to let independent panel redraw 11 House districts; Speaker Howell calls idea premature (Of course Bill “ALEC” Howell would say that.)
- Pro- and anti-Trump groups to rally Saturday at Virginia Beach’s Mount Trashmore
- Parents, private schools wary of shifting special education funds in Virginia
- Virginia bill would spur charters in districts with struggling schools
- Alexandria’s Torpedo Factory is biggest attraction in city, study says (The importance of the arts to the economy demonstrated yet again.)
- Roanoke mayor urges federal leaders to include broadband in infrastructure plan
- Plans OK’d for Botetourt’s North Mountain as site of Virginia’s first commercial wind farm
- Is pink the new orange? In nod to women, Va. passes bill to let hunters wear hot pink
- Chesapeake Bay cleanup progress endangered by White House proposal, advocates say (Trump is a disaster on every level.)
- Pushing a larger fleet, Trump finds home on carrier Ford (What kind of bull**** is “finds home?”)
- Finally a wintry weekend, but we warm up again next week
