Toomey Leading Specter in PA Senate Race
Former Representative Pat Toomey is leading Senator Arlen Specter 48% to 36%, according to a new Rasmussen poll. The election is still over a year away but incumbents who poll under 40% eventually...
View ArticleCash-for-Clunkers Could Be Money-for-Make-Work
The last sentence on Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter’s entry on The Huffington Post says it all: We could all take a lesson from FDR.” And what, pray tell, might that lesson be? Apparently, that it...
View ArticleArlen Specter Introduces Trial Lawyers’ Bill of Rights
Desperate to fend off challenges from both his left and right in his campaign to perpetuate a seemingly-endless Senate tenure, Senator Arlen Specter (Fair Weather Party – PA) has introduced legislation...
View ArticleThe Persistence of Pat Toomey
Six years ago, then Rep. Pat Toomey (R-PA) angered the GOP establishment by running against incumbent Republican Senator Arlen Specter in the primary. Toomey lost, in no small part to conservative GOP...
View ArticleWhite House Self-Investigates; Pronounces Itself Innocent
For three months, the White House has refused to say whether it offered a job to Representative Joe Sestak to get him to drop his challenge to Senator Arlen Specter in a Pennsylvania Democratic...
View ArticlePresident Obama Has the Reverse Midas Touch
So far, President Barack Obama is 0-for-everything when it comes to getting directly involved in any campaign other than his own. In a three month span, he helped lose Democratic campaigns for...
View ArticleArlen Specter Shows Rod Blagojevich How to Negotiate with the White House...
If only the indicted former Illinois governor could have passed on the chance to be first elected official to do business with the Obama White House political machine he too might be just another...
View ArticleClub for Growth to Lugar: Retire
Roll Call says Club for Growth President Chris Chocola is readying his group for another take-down effort of a moderate GOP senator. Chocola, a former Congressman from Indiana who served in the House...
View ArticleGood Riddance, Arlen Specter
It’s been a rough re-launch into the public consciousness for former Senator Arlen Specter (R/D-PA) since switching parties and losing the Democratic primary in 2010. While hocking his memoirs during...
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