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The Club for Growth, a conservative anti-tax group, is considering running ads in the Republican Party's Senate primary race against Florida Gov.

Cynthia Nixon What happened to marriage in Maryland? Gay activists in Maryland had high hopes for this legislative session.

With the 2010 elections looming, the state Republican Party has extra incentive in attempting to make over its "anti-environment" image.

The piece, in which some moderates fault the Club for shrinking the GOP caucus, misses two important points.

For just $125, Maryland Republicans can hear the leader of the 1994 Republican Revolution address how the party can stage a political comeback in 2010 and beyond.

For just $125, Maryland Republicans can hear the leader of the 1994 Republican Revolution address how the party can stage a political comeback in 2010 and beyond.

Since the defection of Arlen Specter, Republicans have been desperately looking for their next move.

Now that longtime Republican Senator Arlen Specter has switched parties, should Al Franken prevail in his Minnesota Senate race, Democrats will have a filibuster-proof majority.

The defeat of moderate Republican Congressman Wayne Gilchrist in last year's Maryland GOP primary is prompting pundits to say the party is dead in the state.

Even before Pennsylvania Sen. Arlen Specter switched to the Democratic side, Republican leaders were warning that their national party was in danger of becoming a regional one.

Andrew Roth writes that I am "buying into Arlen Specter's argument that the Republican Party would be better off with Rep.

Ever the prosecutor, Republican-turned-Democratic Sen. Arlen Specter cited evidence Tuesday to bolster his case that his old party has turned too conservative.

Credit Hillary Clinton's relentlessness for the decision Arlen Specter made Tuesday to abandon the Republican Party and become a Democrat.

Asserting that he had made a principled move not a political one, Sen. Arlen Specter told reporters today that his decision to become a Democrat stemmed from the realization that his "prospects for winning a Republican primary are bleak." "I'm not prepared to have my 29 year record in the United States Senate decided by the Pennsylvania Republican ...

I don't know what's wrong with people like Ramesh Ponnuru and Lindsey Graham . Over at the National Review, Ponnuru blamed the Club for pushing Specter to the Democratic Party, calling us, "The Club for Shrinkage." Senator Graham lamented Specter's switch-a-roo, saying, "I don't want to be a member of the Club for Growth.

Drew Sweatte is running for City Council of Palm Springs, California. He is gay and just 22 years old.

U.S. Rep. Frank Kratovil discusses his first few months in office. "I understand how Wayne Gilchrest felt," Kratovil said in an interview at his Capitol Hill office.

Republican environmentalist David Jenkins repeats the claim that the Club for Growth cost Republicans their congressional majorities.

Thanks to Phil Weiss for this. Former Congressman Wayne Gilchrest, a liberal Republican knocked out of office by a right-wing Republican challenger, tells a Hill panel how Middle East policy is made and unmade.

As Washington continues to print money and borrow from future generations, the number of Congressional members receiving the lowest pro-taxpayer scores has reached new heights, according to the National Taxpayers Union.