http://red-states.com/ssquirrel Just Chewing on the (Wing) Nuts Tue, 01 Jul 2008 15:58:01 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Sen. Joseph Lieberman gets a 45 - 43 percent approval, down from 52 - 35 percent March 27 and his lowest score ever. “Sen. Lieberman’s approval rating has dropped below 50 percent for the first time in 14 years of polling, with nearly two-thirds of Democrats giving him low marks, probably ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/07/01/holy-joe-losing-more-than-his-mind/ CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. – Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens says the euthanized Kentucky Derby horse Eight Belles probably died more humanely than death row prisoners do. Stevens’s comments Friday night came a month after he voted with a majority of the Supreme Court to approve the most widely used method ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/05/11/hes-suprised/ In response to a question from the Michigan City, Ind., News-Dispatch on whether he is a Nazi, or sympathizes with them or with white supremacists, Tony Zirkle said he didn’t “know enough about the group to either favor it or oppose it.” He reportedly also told a local radio station ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/05/10/the-big-tent-party/ The backlash is not limited to the well known. Christopher Chambers, a Georgetown University professor and Obama supporter, said a woman tracked down his cellphone number, dialed it and called him a race traitor after he said Wright’s performance would doom the senator’s presidential run if he did not act ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/05/10/obama-charts-a-losing-path/ “BAGHDAD (AFP) - Insurgents blew up four US marines in Iraq’s Anbar province”, marking one of the deadliest attacks against US troops in the former Sunni rebel bastion in months, the military said on Sunday 166 dead servicemen this year, 50 just last month. Plenty of dead people for a very ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/05/04/the-fox-news-nyt-msnbc-cnn-war-memorial/ White House officials for more than a year have blocked a rule aimed at protecting endangered North Atlantic right whales by challenging the findings of government scientists, according to documents obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists. The documents, which were mailed to the environmental group by an unidentified National ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/05/01/white-house-assholes/ WASHINGTON — The former executive assistant to White House political adviser Karl Rove is seeking immunity from prosecution before testifying about administration ties to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, a House investigative committee revealed Tuesday. Susan Ralston, the aide who resigned last fall, told lawyers for the committee this month she would ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/04/26/old-stuff/ WASHINGTON — Barack Obama often boasts he is “the only candidate who isn’t taking a dime from Washington lobbyists,” yet his fundraising team includes 38 members of law firms that were paid $138 million last year to lobby the federal government, records show. Those lawyers, including 10 former federal lobbyists, have ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/04/26/technical-difficulties/ the billionaire head of fund raising for Clinton is the cousin of the billionaire head of fund raising for Obama. Bill Clinton ran the most ethical admin I know of, though the bar isn’t very high. The ethics rules he imposed were quite good, and being constantly investigated kept the ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/04/26/comments/ http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/04/18/the-ed-word/ BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber struck the funeral of two anti-al-Qaida Sunni tribesmen in a town north of Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least 50 people and wounding dozens, police said. Thursday’s attack took place in the town of Albu Mohammed about 90 miles north of Baghdad, during the funeral ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/04/17/progress-hereget-your-progress-here/ Men rest after digging graves for Mehdi fighters who were killed in clashes in Baghdad, in a cemetery in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad March 29, 2008. The death toll mounted on Saturday in fighting in Baghdad where U.S. forces have been drawn deeper into an Iraqi ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/03/29/rock-the-basra-rock-the-basra/ http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/03/12/wednesday/ ANCHORAGE, Alaska - The white killer whale spotted in Alaska’s Aleutian Islands sent researchers and the ship’s crew scrambling for their cameras. The nearly mythic creature was real after all. “I had heard about this whale, but we had never been able to find it,” said Holly Fearnbach, a research biologist with ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/03/07/moby-dick/ Sixty-eight people were killed in twin bomb attacks on a shopping area in central Baghdad, Iraq’s interior ministry has said. The Thursday blasts left another 130 people injured, officials said. Funerals are taking place in the mainly-Shia district of Karada - the scene of the bombings. The second bomb hit a crowd of ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/03/07/the-surge-which-is-working/ Remember last week’s Senate Line in which we praised Republicans for finding self-funding candidates to challenge potentially vulnerable Democratic incumbents in New Jersey and South Dakota? Well, scratch that — at least in New Jersey. Developer Anne Evans Estabrook removed herself from the race against Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-N.J.) today just two ... http://red-states.com/ssquirrel/index.php/2008/03/06/nj-update/