MAYBE THE RIGHT CAN RUN PAT TOOMEY AGAINST HIM (via Luciferous):

Santorum eyes GOP anti-poverty effort (Amy Fagan, October 26, 2005, THE WASHINGTON TIMES)

[S]enate Republican Conference Chairman Rick Santorum, Pennsylvania Republican, wants to highlight his party's approach to fighting poverty by offering four Republican amendments to the labor and health and human services spending bill the Senate is considering this week. [...]

His proposed amendments call for funding to promote marriage and teach fathers to be more responsible -- two pieces of the stalled Republican welfare-reform bill -- as well as funding to provide technical help to small charities, and to determine through a commission which federal social programs could be restructured as vouchers. The proposals call for about $411 million in grant money and represent pieces of the 12-point anti-poverty agenda introduced by Senate Republican leaders last spring.

Mr. Santorum also will try to attach a $7 billion charitable-giving proposal to a separate piece of legislation next week. The long-stalled charity bill would create a series of tax incentives to encourage individuals and companies to give to faith-based and secular social service charities.

Tut, tut, you can't be a conservative icon if you're going to be so nakedly Third Way.

Posted by Orrin Judd at October 27, 2005 5:58 PM