PHILADELPHIA INQUIRER: Cheered by the left and chided by the right for his stance on gun laws in the spring, Pennsylvania’s Republican senator saw those reactions reversed last week when he sided with GOP hard-liners at the end of the government shutdown.
On a high-profile vote to reopen the government and allow more borrowing to pay its bills, Toomey sided with Ted Cruz and the Senate’s most conservative bloc to oppose the bipartisan deal…
“I had no objection to reopening the government. . . . My main objection was combining that with several hundred billion dollars of additional debt that’s piled onto our already excessive levels of debt with no reforms whatsoever,” Toomey told The Inquirer. “Nothing that curbs the spending.” … (more)
