http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/weasel/ en-us Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:29:36 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279736/posts The strong backing of Democratic Party leaders has done little to change slumping public support for the party's newest convert, U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter. Only 28 percent of all those surveyed say that he deserves re-election, according to the latest Keystone Poll, and double that number say it's time for a change. Specter's party switch, announced April 28, has hurt his job-performance ratings among Democrats as well as Republicans, according to a telephone survey of 498 registered voters, conducted last week by the Center for Opinion Research at Franklin & Marshall College. Back in March, before the switch, roughly half... http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/20090625_Poll__Specter_s_numbers_dive_since__conversion_.html http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2279736/posts#comment Fri, 26 Jun 2009 04:29:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2266299/posts A tiny baby stoat was given mouth-to-mouth and a heart massage by a member of the public after a passer-by discovered it drowning in a water butt, it has emerged. The lifeless baby stoat, the size of a human thumb, was found in the trough next to its sibling in wasteland near Marham, Norfolk. The pair, since named Blears and Brown after the beleaguered Prime Minister and his former Communities Secretary, were found by an unnamed employee at Anglian Water on May 29.' Daily Telegraph http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2266299/posts#comment Sat, 6 Jun 2009 19:24:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241117/posts Now that U.S. Sen. Arlen Specter has finally decided to come out of the closet and embrace his liberal side, it should come as no surprise that the Democrats are playing up the party switch as a monumental victory for the DNC, while Republican liberals are denouncing the conservatives of the GOP for chasing out “one of our own.” From the perspective of rank-and-file Republicans, however, the Specter defection means far more than simple political maneuvering by two national political parties. To begin with, Mr. Specter’s decision to switch parties has been a long time in coming, and for many... The Bulletin http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2241117/posts#comment Thu, 30 Apr 2009 10:53:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233761/posts Clintonista Paul Begala says all you unpatriotic, wimpy, whiney Americans out there should just shut up and pay your taxes. "Why are they out there whining with this Tea Party thing? Just a bunch of wimpy, whiney, weasels who don't love their country and don't want to support - there are guys at Walter Reed who gave their legs for my country, and they're whining because they have to write a check?" the political consultant who worked in Bill Clinton's White House told Don Imus. American Spectator http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2233761/posts#comment Mon, 20 Apr 2009 22:32:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226689/posts Cap-and-trade theologians love to invoke markets: Merely put a price on carbon, they say, and the invisible hand will shoo us toward an eco-friendly future. Of course Congress has its own ideas. Take the climate bill just offered by House powers Henry Waxman of California and Ed Markey of Massachusetts. The 648-page "discussion draft" ducks the most important policy questions about what Democrat Ben Cardin calls "the most significant revenue-generating proposal of our time" -- namely, how the tax will be levied and the proceeds spent. But it does find space to impose thousands of new environmental regulations on the... WSJ Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2226689/posts#comment Fri, 10 Apr 2009 23:27:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2214053/posts Senator Arlen Specter has announced that he will not vote for the mis-named Employee Free Choice Act which would eliminate the private ballot for workers: "Senator Arlen Specter, who was the lone Republican to side with Democrats on the Senate's last vote on union-organizing legislation, announced Tuesday that he would not vote for this session's bill. * * * With some Democrats expressing ambivalence on the bill, the Democratic sponsors indicated before Mr. Specter's announcement that they did not have the 60 votes to move it forward." The bill would let workers chose to form a union when a majority... Friends of Ours http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2214053/posts#comment Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:27:57 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2204780/posts We now know one of the payoffs that Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter received for being one of three Republican Senators who allowed President Obama’s trillion-dollar Spendulus bill to become law. WPXI in Pittsburgh reports that Specter has a 5.5 million dollar earmark for the crescent-shaped Flight 93 memorial in the omnibus spending bill just passed by the Senate. Much as the people of Pennsylvania want to see a fitting memorial built, they yanked support for the crescent design in August 2007 after Tom Burnett Sr., father of Flight 93 hero Tom Jr., started warning the country that the memorial design... The Gadfly http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2204780/posts#comment Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:37:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148575/posts WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Sen. John McCain says he's ready to work President-elect Barack Obama on economic and national security issues. McCain, who lost the presidential election to Obama, says there will be some areas of disagreement. But he says the nation's problems are too big for political divisiveness. The Arizona senator says people want the government to unite and work together. AP via Google News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2148575/posts#comment Sun, 14 Dec 2008 15:35:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141380/posts Al Franken’s (D) campaign may ask the Democratic-led Senate to intervene on his behalf to allow some disqualified absentee ballots to be counted in his quest to unseat Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.). Franken attorney Marc Elias made the case to reporters Monday that as many as 1,000 absentee ballots were improperly disqualified and that the Senate or the courts may need to step in to resolve the issue. “No recount can be considered accurate or complete until all the ballots cast by lawful voters are counted,” Elias said of the recount that became necessary when only about 200 votes separated... thehill.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2141380/posts#comment Tue, 2 Dec 2008 13:27:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132243/posts The cameras focused on a tearful Jesse Jackson, and the reporters seemed more interested in talking to Spike Lee, Brad Pitt and Oprah. But at Chicago’s Grant Park, when President-elect Barack Obama declared “Change has come to America,” there was another face in the crowd that Rhode Islanders would have recognized. Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln D. Chafee, the Republican-turned-independent who campaigned for Obama, was about 20 feet from the side of the stage. Chafee and his wife, Stephanie, waved to Obama’s brother-in-law, Craig Robinson, and his wife and two children. The Robinsons, who were on stage with Obama, used to... The Providence Journal, Providence, RI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2132243/posts#comment Fri, 14 Nov 2008 20:27:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122521/posts STEVENSVILLE, Mont., Oct. 31 (UPI) -- The namesake of Montana-based Cooper Firearms has been asked to resign as president of the company after he expressed support for Barack Obama. The company said it asked Dan Cooper, founder and part owner of Cooper Firearms, to resign as president after he voiced support for the Democratic Illinois senator's bid for president in a USA Today interview published Tuesday, USA Today reported Friday. "Although we all believe everyone has a right to vote and donate as they see fit, it has become apparent that the fallout may affect more than just Mr. Cooper,"... UPI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2122521/posts#comment Sun, 2 Nov 2008 14:45:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115073/posts CLICK ON SOURCE( Youtube ) YouTube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2115073/posts#comment Sat, 25 Oct 2008 17:31:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113546/posts NEW YORK -- Scott McClellan, President Bush's former press secretary, says he is backing Barack Obama for president. McClellan made the endorsement during a taping of Comedian D.L. Hughley's new show that is premiering on CNN this weekend. Washington Post http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2113546/posts#comment Thu, 23 Oct 2008 22:27:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110436/posts Newark, Oct 19, 2008 / 06:19 pm (CNA).- A spokesman for the Archdiocese of Newark has responded to reports that comedian Bill Maher filmed part of his anti-religion documentary “Religulous” at a parish in the archdiocese. Maher set part of the film at Our Lady of Mercy in Park Ridge, New Jersey. The relevant scenes show his sister and his Jewish mother, who explains why his Catholic father stopped going to church. Jim Goodness, an archdiocesan spokesman, told The Record that he turned down two requests to use the church property, one from Maher’s production company and one from the... Catholic News Agency http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2110436/posts#comment Mon, 20 Oct 2008 19:33:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2052501/posts ...So give back the trophy and offer the fans a refund or at the least gas money that was spent to get to the track with your $500,000 race winnings. Certainly, the fans across town at O'Reilly Raceway Park on Thursday, Friday and Saturday experienced better entertainment than what NASCAR's top tour delivered on Sunday. The Allstate 400 was cluttered by 11 cautions — six of which were competition yellows prescribed by NASCAR to evaluate the condition of the tires after cords were exposed on many cars on Saturday during practice. Unlike years past when rubber accumulates on the track... FOX Sports on MSN http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2052501/posts#comment Mon, 28 Jul 2008 14:54:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046665/posts It turns out Jesse Jackson whispered something even worse than his desire to cut off Barack Obama’s manhood. Fox News sources reveal that on an unaired portion of the tape, Jackson uses a vile racial epithet. It turns out that what he actually said, according to Fox, was: “See, Barack been, um, talking down to black people on this faith-based – I wanna cut his nuts out. … Barack – he’s talking down to black people -- telling n------s how to behave.” The longer exchange was first reported by TVNewser.com. Fox sources say there are no immediate plans to air... Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2046665/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 01:24:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044490/posts An important angle in the IndyMac failure that may get lost in ominous headlines tonight and tomorrow: federal regulators pointedly cited U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., in explaining the bank's failure. In simple language, federal regulators blamed Schumer for a run on the bank. Here's from the press release issued by IndyMac's regulator, the Office of Thrift Supervision: "The OTS has determined that the current institution, IndyMac Bank, is unlikely to be able to meet continued depositors’ demands in the normal course of business and is therefore in an unsafe and unsound condition. The immediate cause of the closing was... LATimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044490/posts#comment Sat, 12 Jul 2008 17:31:55 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038614/posts Why is the president of the United States entertaining Abu Dhabi’s crown prince, Sheik Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan, at Camp David when his own State Department has singled out the Sheik’s homeland, the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.), for its continuing violations of human rights? Abu Dhabi is one of seven oil-rich — and anti-Israel states — in the U.A.E. Using its massive sovereign wealth fund of over $875 billion, Abu Dhabi has been gobbling up American assets, buying considerable stakes in U.S. businesses like Citigroup, the Carlyle Group, Advanced Micro Devices, and Toll Brother and is now bidding on... NewsMax.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2038614/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:03:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034415/posts ... Obama's says 'Vero possumus', rough Latin for 'Yes, we can.' Instead of 'Seal of the President of the United States', Obama's Web site address is listed. And instead of a shield, Obama's eagle wears his 'O' campaign logo with a rising sun representing hope ahead. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) Yahoo! News via Drudgereport.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034415/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:18:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025136/posts I just watched the interview, and it is clear Scott McClellan is a Judas. He revels in the left talking points and has a smirk throughout the interview. At the end of the day when the interviews are done and the book no longer sells, Scott will have no friends. The left will not want him and the right will never touch him. Get a dog Scott, he will be your only friend. Or he might not like you either. Can't blame him, dogs are smart. History will frame you as the Judas Benedict Arnold you are. The O'Reilly Factor http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2025136/posts#comment Tue, 3 Jun 2008 03:28:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023628/posts The allegations of deceit in Scott McClellan's book have been a surprise not only for Bush officials enraged with the former White House spokesman but also for publishers who turned down what is now the industry's hottest release. "Books by spokespeople rarely contain anything newsworthy and have generally not proven particularly compelling to consumers," said Steve Ross, publisher of the Collins division of HarperCollins and head of the Crown Publishing Group at Random House Inc. at the time McClellan was offering his manuscript. "It was shopped around but, like others who publish in the category, we didn't even take a... Associated Press http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2023628/posts#comment Fri, 30 May 2008 18:11:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979708/posts On a just-finished conference call in which retired military leaders endorsed Hillary Clinton to be commander in chief, retired General Wesley Clark said John McCain's military experience is not the right kind of experience to command the nation's armed forces: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979708/posts#comment Mon, 3 Mar 2008 19:01:49 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979537/posts Ian Wilkinson, a senior Cathay Pacific captain, was fired three weeks after he did a high-speed, low-level pass over a Seattle-area airport in a new Boeing 777 he was delivering from the factory. It wasn’t the stunt that got him fired, it was the fact that he didn’t have permission to perform the fly-by, something the airline occasionally allows for airshows. But a story in Sunday’s Asian World News, reprinted by The Earth Times, raises the question of just how much authority Wilkinson needed, since the chairman of the airline, Christopher Pratt, was in a cockpit jumpseat for the whole... Avweb http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1979537/posts#comment Mon, 3 Mar 2008 13:53:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970420/posts DSCC - Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee Dear Rick , If you don't think John McCain is just as dangerous in the White House as George W. Bush, think again. McCain will not reverse the foreign policy mistakes of George Bush. He is content to leave us in Iraq, saying it'd be "fine by me" if we were in Iraq for another 100 years; he is rash on using military force with Iran. He overplays the military card and doesn't seem to appreciate that the real strength of the nation lies in our economy and in our values. We have to... DSCC - Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee News letter http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1970420/posts#comment Thu, 14 Feb 2008 19:54:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921493/posts So, now we know. When he was running for the highest office in the state, we all heard a lot of promises from Bill Ritter: promises about consultation with Colorado’s major constituencies, collaborative government, moderation — all the “new Democrat” codswallop. Maybe you thought we had elected a “moderate.” But at this point, everyone on this side of the sod should know that we elected a weasel. The governor’s plan to unionize government flies in the face of everything he promised during his campaign. At least, everything he promised publicly. Evidently, there were other, more serious, promises made behind closed... Summit Daily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1921493/posts#comment Tue, 6 Nov 2007 03:30:58 GMT