by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, July 9.
- Republicans increasingly uncertain of a legislative victory before August (“The GOP is under enormous pressure to approve health-care legislation, but that’s only the beginning: Virtually all of its ambitious agenda — from tax reform to a budget deal to infrastructure programs — is stalled, according to multiple Republicans.”)
- G-20 ends on anxious note as world leaders remark on Trump’s climate defiance (Trump’s assaults on our democracy and on the environment are possibly the two worse things about this horrendous presidency.)
- Trump Gave Putin Exactly What He Wanted
- Trump Team Met With Lawyer Linked to Kremlin During Campaign
- The GOP thought it could force Democrats to cut deals, but Trump keeps sliding in polls (Actually, Trump’s been low but steady in the polls for weeks now.)
- Australian journalist demolishes Trump at G20: ‘biggest threat to the west’ (“Reporter Chris Uhlmann’s commentary tearing into American president – a man with ‘no desire and no capacity to lead the world’ – reverberates to Washington”)
- Conservatives are moving repeal-and-replace in a disastrous direction (“Moderate Republicans should finally work with Democrats in good faith to improve Obamacare.” There are moderate Republicans?)
- Putin set a trap and Trump fell into it (“You don’t get a lot of shots at pressure in diplomacy. And after you’ve let your adversary off the hook, you certainly don’t get to apply that pressure again. As far as the Russians are concerned, the public case is closed.”)
- Vlad, the Trump Impaler (“This is a simple fact he might want to let sink in: The Russians do not have our best interests at heart. They are conjuring Trump’s worst “1984” fear: playing him for a sucker.”)
- Trump Jr. says he, Kushner and Manafort met with lawyer with ties to Kremlin last June
- Donald Trump puts US in a club of one
- Paul Ryan Won’t Hold Public Town Halls Due to Fear of Protesters
- Trump’s nationalists triumphant after Europe trip (More “white supremacists” than “nationalists.”)
- GOP faces critical month for budget
- Nikki Haley: ‘Everybody knows that Russia meddled in our elections’ (Everybody except her crazy boss.)
- Utilities fighting against rooftop solar are only hastening their own doom (Take note, Dominion — your days are numbered.)
- White House Confuses Taiwan And China In Painful G20 Press Release Blunder (Imbeciles.)
- A Jaw-Dropping List of All the Terrible Things Trump Has Done to Mother Earth (Many of us, myself included, warned over and over and over about this in the months leading up to the 2016 presidential election…)
- ‘America alone’: Trump’s ‘America First’ approach got icy reception at global summit
- Trump’s meeting with Putin was a disaster. The aftermath is worse. (“The White House lets Putin’s extraordinary comments go unchallenged.”)
- The Anti-Semitism Around Donald Trump (“Trump may be drawn to European nationalists like Orban by nothing more than their shared suspicion of Islam, but he is apparently blind to the anti-Semitism that tends to coexist with that variety of Islamophobia.”)
- America’s Future Is Texas (“With right-wing zealots taking over the legislature even as the state’s demographics shift leftward, Texas has become the nation’s bellwether.”)
- U.S. officials say Russian government hackers have penetrated energy and nuclear company business networks
- Ramadan: Virginia voters don’t need Trump prying into their data
- Jacob Morrison: After Trump’s climate rollbacks, Virginia needs to step up (“We all can benefit from less pollution and more clean energy. Environment Virginia looks forward to working with Gov. McAuliffe to craft the strongest possible rule to cut dangerous carbon pollution, to spur continued development of wind, solar and energy efficiency and to put Virginia on a path toward 100 percent clean, renewable power. This goal is attainable.”)
- Schapiro: House Republicans going their own way
- 23 arrested, tear gas deployed as Ku Klux Klan rallies in Charlottesville
- A. Barton Hinkle column: Can Libertarian Cliff Hyra make a dent in the Virginia governor’s race?
- 6 months in, Rep. Scott Taylor is trying to elevate his status in Congress however possible (Taylor needs to be elevated…
right out of Congress.) - Editorial: A Marshall Plan for Appalachia?
- CASEY: Car title lender info remains under wraps, for now (“A media organization wanted to see information filled annually with the State Corporation Commission by car-title loan companies. The SCC said ‘no,’ and the Virginia Supreme Court dismissed an appeal.”)
- Charlottesville’s Robert E. Lee statue vandalized before KKK rally
- Tentative August launch date set for downtown circulator bus
- Virginia’s Demographics: The Future’s in the Data (“The next quarter of a century will bring amazing changes to Virginia. Leaders at the state and local levels need to be ready to take advantage of these opportunities at a moment’s notice, requiring advance planning and a willingness to work together and to take leaps of faith into the unknown. The future’s coming no matter what — it’s up to us to be ready for it or face being shoved aside.”)
- Dry and pleasant today; Storms return midweek (“Low humidity and below-normal temperatures — enjoy it while it lasts!”)
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