by Lowell
Here are a few national and Virginia news headlines, political and otherwise, for Sunday, February 18.
- Floridians Tell Politicians Who Do The NRA’s Bidding Their Time Is Up (Very simple: vote out of office ANYONE with an “A” rating from the NRA. Period. End.)
- Outraged Students Demand Action on Gun Violence After Florida Massacre (“‘Thoughts and prayers’ are no longer enough.” They never have been!)
- McConnell: GOP expects to lose Senate, House seats in midterms (“The odds are that we will lose seats in the House and the Senate”)
- McMaster: Russian meddling beyond dispute
- Putin’s chef, a troll farm and Russia’s plot to hijack US democracy (“Robert Mueller has revealed audacious meddling in the 2016 election. Can he link it to Trump?”)
- Trump vowed to end ‘this American carnage’ – but the attacks keep happening (“Under Trump, the US has endured three of the worst mass shootings in modern history. Yet as the grief and anger grows, inertia reigns”)
- Post-Columbine generation demands action on guns: ‘We don’t deserve this’ (“Survivors of the Florida attack have grown up in a world where school shootings are the norm, and they want a different future”)
- Firearms debate rages as Florida rally coincides with gun show
- Mr. Trump to the ‘dreamers’: Drop dead.
- Fla. social services investigated suspect before rampage, knew he wanted to buy gun
- Trump puts public school safety and trauma counseling funding on the chopping block
- Trump Blames Florida School Shooting on Russia Investigation (“In a Saturday night tweet, President Trump falsely suggested that the FBI’s attention to the Russia investigation left them unable to prevent last week’s high school shooting in Parkland, Florida which left 17 people dead” Sick f***)
- Prominent Republican Donor Issues Ultimatum on Assault Weapons (“A prominent Republican political donor demanded on Saturday that the party pass legislation to restrict access to guns, and vowed not to contribute to any candidates or electioneering groups that did not support a ban on the sale of military-style firearms to civilians.”)
- Trump Attends Mar-a-Lago Disco Party After Meeting with Florida Shooting Survivors (Ee gads.)
- Trump’s Conspicuous Silence Leaves a Struggle Against Russia Without a Leader
- Joe Biden, in public and private, tiptoes toward a 2020 run (“Biden is tiptoeing toward a potential run in 2020, even broaching the possibility during a recent gathering of longtime foreign policy aides.”)
- Dowd: Appeasing Gun Gods (“The Orlando shooting also provided confirmation that the emotionally stunted Trump would not be a parental healer for the country, when he tweeted congratulations to himself for predicting the shooter would have links to terrorism, rather than offering comforting words to the grieving families and friends, and to shaken Americans.”)
- Trump: Dems could have passed gun control under Obama (Actually: “Former President Barack Obama aggressively pushed for new gun restrictions, particularly after the deadly shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut in 2012…Republicans have had control of the House since 2011, and regained control of the Senate in 2014.”)
- WATCH: Teen Parkland survivor tears into Trump, Republicans and the NRA in electrifying statement
- This company may have solved one of the hardest problems in clean energy (“The ‘hydrogen economy’ may be a thing after all.”)
- Why Growing Veggies in the City Isn’t Just a Feel-Good Exercise (“Urban agriculture could yield up to 10 percent of many food crops.”)
- RTD Exclusive: The firewall against Medicaid expansion has fallen in the Virginia House of Delegates, budget proposal shows (Kirk Cox: “Instead of fighting a losing battle against straightforward Medicaid expansion, I believe the House should lead by putting forward a responsible plan similar to what Vice President Mike Pence adopted as governor of Indiana”)
- Sen. Jennifer McClellan: Senate utilities bill needs improvement to protect consumers
- Editorial: Kilgore changes the politics of Medicaid expansion
- In first forum, Democrats vying to face Comstock talk guns, how to win
- Sen. Ryan McDougle: Republicans focus on lower health-care costs and help for those most in need (Actually, Republicans’ focus has been a mindless, nihilistic, kneejerk opposition to anything President Obama wanted to do, even if it was largely a Republican plan like the ACA.)
- 6th District candidates share views at forum at LU (This really shows you where the GOP “base” is at right now: “Dunbar was the clear favorite, drawing the loudest audience applause of any candidate after her answers” Dunbar, if you’re not familiar with her, is about as extreme as you can get and still live in this country.)
- School boards increasingly embrace the ABCs of social activism (“In September, Arlington school leaders disavowed Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program , which shielded from deportation undocumented immigrants brought to the country as children.”)
- Del. Simon Wants Northam to ‘Send Down a Gun Control Bill’
- Gordon C. Morse: Northam provides Democrats a lesson in how to govern (Hmmmm.)
- Winter quickly yields to another spring fling, with 70s by midweek
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