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cqpolitics.com - 11/23/2009
Is Toomey Edging to the Center?
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Most Washington, D.C., insiders know former Rep. Pat Toomey, R-Pa. , as a stalwart conservative. As the former president of the anti-tax Club for Growth, Toomey often made it his mission to defeat Republican members who did not meet his group’s conservative standards on spending. But ever since ...
washingtonindependent.com - 11/19/2009
Specter Opposes Adding Troops in Afghanistan « The Washington Independent
— washingtonindependent.com — On a blogger conference call this afternoon, Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) announced he can’t support a potential... addition of U.S. troops in Afghanistan. “We ought not to add troops in Afghanistan,” Specter said, adding that he questioned “even staying” ... (more) Specter Opposes Adding Troops in Afghanistan «  ...
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rollingstone.com - 11/17/2009
The GOP Jihad
— rollingstone.com — A rlen Specter didn't jump ship. He was forced to walk the plank. On Tax Day, in... a move timed to coincide with the nationwide tea-bag protests, outgoing Club for Growth president Pat Toomey announced that he would mount a primary challenge to Specter, ... (more) The GOP Jihad
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The New Republic blogs:  Toomey's Two-Step

Above Average Jane:  Toeplitz on Toomey

The Atlantic Politics Channel:  Hurtling Toward 2010, 11/24

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Toomey's Two-Step
The New Republic blogs — Congressional Quarterly 's Shira Toeplitz has a good rundown on all the ways in which presumptive Pennsylvania GOP Senate nominee Pat Toomey has moved to the center ever since Arlen Specter bolted for the Democratic Party. Which makes me again wonder whether it was a mistake for Obama to encourage Specter's defection.** If Obama hadn't welcomed Specter with open arms and Specter had been forced to stay in the GOP, he almost certainly would have lost the Republican primary to Toomey, who planned to run to Specter's right. Even though Toomey would have pivoted to the middle for ...

Toeplitz on Toomey
Above Average Jane — Shira Toeplitz has an interesting article on Pat Toomey in Roll Call. Read "Is Toomey Edging to the Center?"

Hurtling Toward 2010, 11/24
The Atlantic Politics Channel — The 2010 midterms are just around the corner (sort of). Here's what's happening: Rep. Dennis Moore (D-KS) will retire at the end of 2010, giving Republicans an opportunity to pick up his long-targeted district; Politico notes that Democrats are gearing up for ugly Senate primaries in Pennsylvania and Kentucky; Rep. Mark Kirk (R-IL), who is running for President Obama's old Illinois Senate seat, toned down his rhetoric on Attorney General Eric Holder's 9/11 suspects decision; Jon Runyan (R), the former Philadelphia Eagles OT who may challenge Rep. John Adler (D-NJ), missed voting in four of nine general elections ...

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But He's OUR Pathetic Figure of a Man!
whiskeyfire.typepad.com 10/11/2009 — Noted lunatic imbecile Dan Riehl says something stupid -- no surprise there -- though only after actually getting something right, hard as that may be to believe. Funny that Arlen Specter would come out for a robust public health care insurance ...
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Washington (CNN) – Rep. Dennis Moore, D-Kansas, will not run for re-election next year, a senior Democratic aide confirms to CNN. Moore was first elected in 1998 and easily won a sixth term in 2008 after being targeted for defeat early in ...
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Washington (CNN) – A senior aide to Republican National Committee Chairman Michael Steele has resigned his post less than one month after the GOP scored major victories by winning the governorships of New Jersey and Virginia, CNN has ...
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