by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Monday, April 24.
- Showdown looms over money for border wall as budget deadline nears (Under no circumstances should any Democrat even think about voting for that monstrosity.)
- Fear dominates as French leaders unite behind candidate preaching for a more open nation (“The simple fear that a far-right Marine Le Pen victory could doom France, the European Union and the West sent leaders across the political spectrum rallying behind centrist Emmanuel Macron. Never in the six-decade history of the modern French state have both major left-right political parties been barred from the presidency.”)
- Macron Mounts a Patriot’s Challenge to Le Pen
- Marine Le Pen Is In A Much Deeper Hole Than Trump Ever Was
- Blow: Resilience of the Resistance (“The Trump administration, from pillar to post, is an unmitigated disaster, lumbering forward and crushing American ideas and conventions as it does. Damage is being done, there is no doubt, but Americans are not taking it lying down. They are standing in opposition. They are feeling their power. They are energized, and I’m very much encouraged.”)
- Krugman: Zombies of Voodoo Economics (Trump’s “supporters should therefore be dismayed, not just by his failure to actually close any deals, but by the fact that he evidently has no new ideas to offer, just the same old snake oil the right has been peddling for decades…Still, the fact is that the Trump agenda so far is absolutely indistinguishable from what one might have expected from, say, Ted Cruz. It’s just voodoo with extra bad math. Was that what his supporters expected?”)
- Sessions’s aloha-baiting could bring attention to the real problem (“The attorney general has issued a series of orders wrecking efforts to reform police practices, cutting back on voting rights and more.”)
- House Democrats grow bullish after Trump’s stumbles (“Their fear of languishing in the minority is turning into hope for a quick revival.”)
- Republicans sound alarm on Trump’s troubles ahead of 2018 (“Donors, leaders and potential candidates begin to worry about an election that will be a referendum on the president’s performance.”)
- Donald Trump literally knows nothing: The moronic fiction of his “really, really good” health care plan is now obvious (“Trump’s idiotic pronouncements on health care can’t conceal that he has no plan and doesn’t understand the details”)
- Trump budget chief: Border wall will ‘protect millions of low income Americans’ who lose Obamacare (Yep, this guy is bat**** crazy, it would seem. What the hell is he even talking about???)
- ‘Roger Ailes did sexually harass me,’ says former Fox journalist Alisyn Camerota
- Philosopher Henry Giroux on the culture of cruelty and Donald Trump: America is “a democracy on life support — it can’t breathe” (“Author of a new book on Trump’s rise says we face ‘something so dark, so real, so evil’ with no clear precedent”)
- Sunday News Shows Mostly Silent On March For Science, Perpetuating The Dearth Of Coverage On Climate Change (Chuck Todd promised publicly almost two years ago that he would soon be having a lot more climate coverage.
He lied.) - Nine Black Employees Are Now Suing Fox News For Racial Harassment
- Supporting Science is as American as the Constitution and the Founding Fathers (“Scientific progress and American democracy are inextricably bound for their mutual survival.”)
- Jeff Sessions on Hawaii gaffe: ‘Nobody has a sense of humour any more’ (Sessions is evil AND an imbecile.)
- McAuliffe vows to back whoever wins Democrats’ June 13th primary (Yep, we all need to do that.)
- Lt. Gov. candidate Fairfax draws on lessons from mom, grandparents
- Metro’s test: Can our politics still solve critical problems? (“Metro’s issues stem from a failure to face hard choices honestly that echoes loudly through state and federal governance.”)
- Virginia wants to steal some of California’s driverless-car thunder (“The states are taking sharply different approaches to regulation, and Virginia thinks its hands-off approach gives it an edge.”)
- Hull: What Exactly Is Corey Stewart Doing?(Great question!)
- Richmond Public Schools Superintendent Leaving in June
- Editorial: Who should get the blame for Roanoke’s proposed solid waste fee?
- No plan yet on how Newport News, Hampton will pay for HRT shortfall
- Johansson’s OT goal for Capitals clinches series, ousts Maple Leafs
- Damp and dreary through Tuesday but summerlike sunshine later this week
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