All Hail Pat Toomey

—By Kevin Drum

| Sun Dec. 20, 2009 3:29 PM PST

Paul Krugman:

I haven’t seen anyone point this out; but it occurs to me that we all owe thanks to the Club for Growth. If they hadn’t targeted Arlen Specter, he wouldn’t have switched parties, the Democrats wouldn’t have 60 seats, and the world might look very different.

C'mon Paul, you gotta get on the Twitter bandwagon!

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