Sen. Toomey Tells Conservative Crowd: “I Lost. I Get That.”
United States Senator Pat Toomey (R-PA) came to Camp Hill, Pennsylvania on Friday for the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference with something he’s not used to in conservative circles: Controversy. Since co-sponsoring an Obama Administration-supported bill to expand background checks with U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) last week, Toomey, a staunch and popular conservative,...
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Don’t Worry, I Will Be at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference This Weekend
Tomorrow begins my favorite weekend of the year. It’s time for the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Camp Hill, Pa., in which conservative activists and Republican politicians from all over the state descend upon a hotel across the river from the state Capitol and do conservative things. I’ll be there most of the weekend, both live-tweeting events...
Continue ReadingObama Calls Not Passing Toomey Gun Bill ‘Unimaginable’
Last week, Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) and Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) introduced legislation that would increase background checks on commercial gun purchases. The bill was met with subdued fanfare from some, and extreme rage from others, mostly on the far right. And since then, Toomey has run the gauntlet. He and the West Virginia senator have appeared together on several...
Continue ReadingPA Sen. Pat Toomey Stood with Rand Paul on Drone Filibuster
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) spent almost 13 hours yesterday filibustering President Barack Obama’s CIA director nominee John Brennan over the administration’s stance on drone technology and their declared right to murder at will. It was something to see, especially as several of Paul’s colleagues, including Pennsylvania Sen. Pat Toomey, got on the Senate floor...
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DAILY GRINDER: Ed Rendell Urges More Fracking—In New York!
Former Governor Ed Rendell is attempting to peer-pressure New York Governor Andrew Cuomo into overturning that state’s fracking ban—because “it’s a good thing to do.” That’s at least what he’s telling the New York Post, which, unsurprisingly, has published a pretty not-so-flattering picture of the former guv, because that’s their thing (not...
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Best Philly/PA Representatives’ Deleted Tweets from Politwoops
If you haven’t checked out Politwoops yet, then you have no idea what you’re missing. The site promises “deleted tweets from politicians,” and, well, it delivers. In real time. We combed through it briefly and made up a list of your Philly/Pennsylvania representatives’ most hilarious deleted tweets. They’re a mashup of misspellings, odd accusations...
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DAILY GRINDER: Pat Toomey for VP? “Very Unlikely”
Cardboard can't even run for office! Senator Pat Toomey told the Express Times, a newspaper in the Lehigh Valley that it is “very unlikely” he will be the vice presidential nominee, noting, “We’ve got a deep bench. We’ve got a lot of people that would bring a lot to a national ticket.” There’s a “your momma” joke somewhere in there,...
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DAILY GRINDER: NAACP Report Card Gives Pat Toomey an ‘F’
...And he plagiarized from Wikipedia! The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is out with its report card for the First Legislative Session of the 112th Congress (2011) civil rights voting, and no member of Congress is safe. The score was based on 20 congressional votes, which ranged from “education to labor, economic development...
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DAILY GRINDER: Santorum Drops Out After Porn Industry Pressure
I'll get your children where you can't protect them: Their dreams! Sweet headline, right? It’s like reading something at a Fox News-owned website. Technically true but utterly false! [For the record, as we blogged yesterday, the porn industry decided to take on Rick Santorum’s statements that he’d attempt to ban hardcore pornography with a mass-masturbation...
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Sen. Pat Toomey Defends Capitalism as a Moral Issue
"Teleprompters are to socialism as paper is to freedom." Pennsylvania Senator Pat Toomey was the first guest speaker at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania. Toomey, after being introduced by event organizers Frederick W. Anton III and Lowman Henry, spent his half-hour speech talking up the idea of capitalism as a moral...
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