by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Wednesday, June 7.
- Iran attacks: Twin assaults on parliament and shrine rock Tehran
- Senators to ask about Trump pushback on Russia investigation
- Comey Told Sessions: Don’t Leave Me Alone With Trump
- Why the latest Russia news paints an increasingly grim picture for Trump
- Coats told associates Trump asked him if he could intervene with Comey on Russia probe (If this had been Obama, Clinton or any other Dem, the Republicans would be SCREAMING “impeach!” and “lock ’em up!”)
- Exclusive: Jeff Sessions suggested he could resign amid rising tension with President Trump
- Trump, furious and frustrated, gears up to punch back at Comey testimony (Is Trump ever NOT “furious and frustrated?” Those seem to be his default states. Also ignorant, corrupt, etc.)
- Trump Takes Credit for Saudi Move Against Qatar, a U.S. Military Partner (Uhhhh…)
- How Donald Trump Shifted Kids-Cancer Charity Money Into His Business (Again, who voted for this monster?)
- Eric Trump funneled cancer charity money to his businesses, associates: report (Like monstrous father, like monstrous son.)
- Trump pitched Republican leaders on a solar-paneled border wall (Hahahahahahaha. Uh, no.)
- Is Jeremy Corbyn Actually Going to Win This Thing? A Guide to What the Hell Is Happening in the British Parliamentary Election
- The Toll That the Mexico City Policy Will Take in Africa
- Putin’s campaign of personal revenge against the United States (“He will always be, at core, an intelligence officer.” KGB, in other words.)
- Trump’s infrastructure plan is wholly inadequate. And it gets worse. (“His plan rewards special interests, corporate polluters and Wall Street while pretending to be on the side of working people.”)
- Trump’s Tweets ‘Official Statements,’ Spicer Says (Well that’s horrifying.)
- Fractured Republicans get options on healthcare (“GOP senators, including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.), have openly acknowledged that getting the votes to pass healthcare reform will be extremely difficult.”)
- Mark Levin: “Who threatens our country more? The Iranians, the North Koreans, the Chinese, the Russians, or the Democrats?” (This guy was a big Barbara Comstock endorser/supporter – ’nuff said about Comstock, who the idiot Washington Post claimed was kinda “moderate.” Whatever.)
- Sen. Mark Warner: More state election systems were targeted by Russians
- Senator Mark Warner: “Unthinkable, if the President asked Comey to Back Off Investigation.”
- Perriello: paying for pipeline now is like investing in Kodak just before digital cameras arrived (Great analogy!)
- Under Trump, regulation slows to a crawl
- Eric Trump: Dems ‘not even people’ (Is this one more Uday or Qusay?)
- Conservative media call for internment of Muslims following London attacks
- Chris Christie gets shoved out the door (“Guadagno’s staff did not respond when asked if she would request the governor’s support in the lead up to November, when she’ll face Murphy, who trounced five other opponents in Tuesday’s Democratic primary.”)
- Democratic gubernatorial candidate touts progressive support in Virginia
- McAuliffe Announces Mexican Trade Agreement, Jabs Trump
- Gov. McAuliffe signs suicide, bullying prevention laws
- Meet the candidates: Democrats vying for lieutenant governor nomination (Gotta love the corporate media — almost no coverage at all of political campaigns until the end, when they do their cursory “meet the candidates” pieces. #FAIL)
- Perriello tours small and minority-owned businesses in Richmond seeking votes ahead of primary
- Two Paths Arise for Democrats in Race for Virginia’s Governor (“The closely contested primary, which will be decided on June 13, has emerged as the most significant intraparty Democratic contest yet in the Trump era. Mr. Perriello, a one-term House member who was turned out in 2010, is testing whether party activists in a tradition-bound state that typically rewards political moderation will respond to Mr. Trump’s presidency by rallying to the candidate mounting the most unapologetically liberal and Trump-focused campaign.”)
- The Post’s endorsements in Virginia’s gubernatorial primaries (“While both Democratic candidates are accomplished and capable, there is one clear choice on the Republican side.” Lee Hockstader consistently looooves “moderate Republicans” and rural/conservadems, but he’s right that Republicans SHOULD pick Frank Wagner. They won’t, though; Wagner will lose badly next Tuesday. On the Democratic side, Lee’s reasoning is just…uh…well, it’s Lee, the same guy who endorsed Barbara Comstock over LuAnn Bennett, Frank Wolf over every Democrat who ran against that right wingnut, etc. In short, he’s NOT someone Dems should listen to at all. Also note that after he endorsed Harris Miller in 2006, Jim Webb proceeded to clean Miller’s clock in the core Post readership area — Fairfax, Arlington, Loudoun, Prince William, Alexandria, etc. – by 2:1 margins. And that was when the Post’s circulation was much higher than it is today.)
- Editorial: Why Trump can’t save coal (Nope, fortunately economics and technology, along with environmental concerns, mean that coal’s not coming back.)
- Virginia’s top watchdog still serving in an interim basis; no timeline for official appointment
- Corey Stewart, in Roanoke, critical of Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s actions on climate change policy (Corey’s awful and wrong on everything, basically.)
- New tax credit encourages Virginia farmers to donate to food banks
- Gov. McAuliffe, Blacksburg Town Council commit to climate action agreements
- Hey Charlottesville, Va.: The KKK Is Coming to Town! (Lovely.)
- 2 Virginia parks shed Confederate general names
- Auditor: Richmond administrators violated charter when they raided anti-litter commission’s budget
- Cloudier and cooler today; summer heat builds this weekend
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