Posted on 10/01/2013 9:04:23 PM PDT by Olog-hai
An eastern Pennsylvania member of Congress is the only one from the state’s delegation to break party ranks in a dispute that's plunging the nation into a partial government shutdown.
U.S. Rep. Charles Dent voted late Monday night against Republican attempts to scale back President Barack Obama’s signature health care law as the price to keep the federal government open and running. …
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Get rid of him. Get rid of Dent.
let them cave...we have a long memory...I’m up in Somerset County with Schuster and I believe he is going to be primary’ed.
Everybody but Keith Rothfus in the 12th was promoted and endorsed by the machine here in PA.
Yeah, I think it’s an R+2 district.
Charlie thinks and votes like a “moderate” Republican. A “moderate” Republican is a nice way of describing someone who votes with Pelosi half of the time.
So far, no conservative challenger has stepped forward, to my knowledge. With PA’s early filing deadline, it will soon become less and less likely for a challenger to emerge. That being the case, we’re probably going to see Charlie get more and more comfortable running to the middle.
Who will challenge him, Lancey? Is there a conservative willing to take him on in the 15th? If there is, we need to boost him.
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