Just dropped · Trial Balloon · Ep. 192
November Surprises
Coming this month: Life Among the Cannibals: A Political Career, a Tea Party Uprising, and the End of Governing As We Know It by former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-PA).
Politico reports that Specter does Rick Santorum no favors in the memoir writing that Santorum was “vital” in his 2004 primary win against conservative Pat Toomey because he “tried to provide him with political advice ahead of a career-changing vote in 2009, and lobbied him to quell a conservative rebellion over judicial nominees.”
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