Toomey selected for deficit task force: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

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If things aren't bad enough. Toomey is the guy who funded primary challengers against moderate GOP incumbents

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_750912.html

Sen. Pat Toomey got a seat on Wednesday on perhaps the most influential committee in Washington, another step in his swift ascent from establishment outcast to Senate heavyweight.

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., appointed the Lehigh County Republican to the 12-member deficit reduction committee along with Republican Sens. Jon Kyl of Arizona and Rob Portman of Ohio. The committee must submit a plan by Nov. 23 to cut the federal deficit by at least $1.2 trillion.

Congressional leaders and President Obama are counting on the committee to validate a debt deal that helped spark a market sell-off and prompted Standard & Poor's last week to downgrade the country's credit rating. Other rating agencies warned they might downgrade U.S. debt if Congress and the committee don't shed enough debt.

"If this committee is going to be successful, it absolutely has to have bipartisan support. That's the way it's designed," said Toomey, the only committee member appointed so far who voted against the debt deal.

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1. bipartisan support lol. sounds like obama nt

[BeyondGeography]

2. Can't reason with that yahoo

Forget it.

[Drahthaardogs]

3. Toomey is a tool

He was talking how we would not default because we just had to make sure to pay the right bills. Plus he is a weird looking human. Watching him speak freaks me out a little.

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4. He voted against the debt ceiling bill for not going far enough

I thought McConnell ruled that crowd out. Apparently not.