Pretty good take on the "Gang of Three"

http://http://www.slate.com/id/2210838/

Webercom: Specter is ALWAYS driving the Right nuts...it looks likely that former Rep. (and president of the libertarian Club fro Growth) Pat Toomey will challenge Specter in the GOP primary in 2010. Specter may not run again...he is getting up in years and had a bout with cancer a few years back.

There's not really a good solution for the Senate R's to get these folks in line. As Chris Beam writes, they need these voters, and Maine gets bluer every year.

The only hope for stopping the bill now rests in Speaker Pelosi's inept hands...if she pushes too hard (especially on this new health care issue,) she could take it down in flames. But the bet there is that the White Hose reads her the riot act before the conference committee.