Hysterical, by the Pat Toomey campaign, Specter’s Republican nemesis… [HT: Sean Hannity]

UPDATE, 3:33p: Breaking per RedState.com writes today about Newt’s endorsement of Scozzafava, “Today Newt Gingrich takes himself out of the 2012 running.” [HT: Matt Lewis] _______________ Every election season the Republican establishment angers pro-lifers by supporting pro-abort candidates. While this year is no different, enter the tea partiers, who are boisterously organized in every state. […]

Missed this, from Human Events, August 31: 1. “I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them just to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking.” ~ […]

Several news outlets are reporting Sen. Arlen Specter of PA is leaving the GOP for the Democratic Party. Read the article in statement regarding the switch, claiming: …the Republican Party has moved far to the right. Last year, more than 200,000 Republicans in Pennsylvania changed their registration to become Democrats. I now find my political […]

UPDATE, 4:15p: Arlen may need a double martini tonight. The Express Times blog…

by The Swamp (Chicago Tribune’s Washington bureau), Obama will get rid of the Bush administration’s conscience rule sometime today: Taking another step into the abortion debate, the Obama administration today will move to rescind a controversial rule that allows healthcare workers to deny abortion counseling or other family planning services if doing so would violate […]

I reported earlier in the week that 8 Republican senators

I just attended a US Senate forum on the status of President Bush’s judicial nominees, held by 8 Republican senators: Alexander (TN), Allard (CO), Cornyn (TX), Dole (NC), Grassley (IA), Kyl (AZ), McConnell (KY, Senate minority leader), and Specter (PA, ranking member of Judiciary Committee). That’s a lot of senators. C-SPAN3