by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, April 5.
- Senate Formally Takes Up Gorsuch Nomination, and Braces for Turmoil
- In Trump’s world, is it okay to use chemical weapons? Now we will find out. (“Syrian carnage demands an American response.”)
- Syria chemical ‘attack’: What now?
- North Korea fires ballistic missile as Trump, Xi prepare to meet
- Advertisers flee ‘The O’Reilly Factor’ en masse (They need to flee the sexual harassment cesspool of Fox more broadly!)
- Kaiser Health Tracking Poll – April 2017: The Fall of the AHCA and Next Steps for the ACA (“Despite divided views towards the 2010 health law, three-fourths of the public think President Trump and his administration should do what they can to make the current health care law work – including a majority of Democrats and independents and half (51 percent) of Republicans.”)
- Affordable Care Act Gains Majority Approval for First Time
- Who is that masked man in the White House? (“The debate about Susan Rice and ‘unmasking’ Trump campaign members is the administration’s latest attempt to change the subject.” And the media keeps falling for it!)
- Trump’s shell game on Russia makes everything look suspicious (“The president is trying to distract the country from the Russia investigation. That can backfire.”)
- Susan Rice becomes the target of conservative attacks over Flynn unmasking (Note how this right-wing attack is: a) bulls***; b) against a woman; c) against an African American.)
- A New Level of Depravity (Apparently, Assad was afraid Obama and is NOT afraid of Trump.)
- Chemical Attack on Syrians Ignites World’s Outrage (“The White House said the attack “cannot be ignored” and blamed the Syrian government, but also said it was ‘a consequence of the last administration’s weakness and irresolution.'” OK, tough guy Trump, so what are you going to do about it then?)
- Never Forget Merrick Garland (“Why Democrats have to go through with a filibuster of Neil Gorsuch.”)
- The Bogus Susan Rice Story Shows the White House Is Getting Desperate
- He told us who he was: The L.A. Times discovers Donald Trump’s vileness — why was any of it a surprise? (“Mainstream media is shocked to discover the president is a mendacious bigot — were they not paying attention?”)
- The Jeff Sessions Agenda (“The attorney general is undermining the Department of Justice’s core mission from within.”)
- Kaine: Gorsuch Filibuster is Different From Stonewalling Garland (“Senator Kaine’s comment last fall was referring to what might happen if Republicans continued to stonewall the filling of a Supreme Court vacancy without giving any nominee due consideration, which Republicans denied Judge Garland for nearly a year”)
- Gorsuch’s writings borrow from other authors (“Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch copied the structure and language used by several authors and failed to cite source material in his book and an academic article, according to documents provided to POLITICO.”)
- Doomsday’s approaching: The climate could hit a state unseen in 50 million years
- As white men flee, Trump’s approval rating dips again
- The Gorsuch Vote Shows The Old Senate Is Dead
- The Silence of Rex Tillerson (“Sooner or later, someone needs to explain what Trump’s foreign policy is. But the secretary of state does not seem to understand his job.”)
- Susan Rice Is Now a Beltway Story (“In merciful brief, the whole story seems to have started in the swampy outpost of one Mike Cernovich, a man notable for having once opined that women love the taste of his precious bodily fluids. This, alone, should make every sane human reach for the HazMat suit. “)
- Louis C.K. destroys Trump on Colbert show: ‘He’s just a gross, crook, dirty, rotten lying sack of sh*t’ (Comparing them to Trump is a terrible insult to all perfectly good lying sacks of excrement out there.)
- Virginia GOP debate over abortion is a chilling reminder about what’s at stake (“Front-runner Ed Gillespie said he wanted to ‘see abortion banned.'”)
- Kerry Dougherty: Mark Warner, a centrist no longer thinking ahead (This column is really, really stupid.)
- Editorial: A debate challenge for the candidates for governor (“Jack Kennedy, the Democratic clerk of court in Wise County, recently challenged both parties to hold a debate in the coalfields”)
- Schapiro: Running for governor, Perriello nationalizes state race (This column was ok until Schapiro quoted far-right, Koch-funded Ben Marchi at the end. Why?)
- Tom Perriello’s quest to be Virginia governor gets a lift in New York and California
- Gillespie: ‘I would like to see abortion be banned’ (“Candidate for Va. governor sticks by certain exceptions, but activists see a change in tone.”)
- Sen. Bernie Sanders endorses Tom Perriello in Virginia governor’s race (They are scheduled to hold a rally at GMU tomorrow evening.)
- Sanders tests his clout, blindsides some Democrats with endorsement in Virginia governor’s race (Blindsides??? Since Perriello announced, I’ve been wondering if/when he’d be endorsed by a) Sanders; b) Obama. And please, somebody call a waaaaaaaaaaaaaambulance for Mark Warner, who is bent out of shape that he didn’t get a “heads up” on this one. Whatever.)
- Fairfax County stops short of sanctuary policy in new immigration guidelines (“Activists argued for Virginia’s largest jurisdiction to take a stronger stance against federal immigration arrests under Trump”)
- Jeffrey Lacker, president of Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, resigns after acknowledging improper disclosure
- Lawmakers to decide Wednesday whether Virginia should study marijuana decriminalization
- Dominion won’t oppose pause in coal-ash permitting (How nice of them.)
- McAuliffe looks to keep perfect veto record as lawmakers prepare to take up bills on voting, guns and immigration
- Editorial: Culpeper can’t sustain its anti-Muslim charade any longer (This is the Republican Times-Disgrace, no less, saying so.)
- Virginia Beach city manager blasts trash authority for buildup of 10 million gallons of garbage juice (Homer Simpson: Mmmmmm….garbage juice…yummmmmm.)
- Coal counties support McAuliffe amendment to block economic development funding shift
- Gov. Terry McAuliffe hits 101 mph at Richmond International Raceway
- Goodlatte requests info from Homeland Security on Bedford County homicide suspects (They misspelled his name, should be BADlatte. LOL)
- Terrific today, showers and storms threaten tonight into tomorrow
