Permanent Campaign

ABC News:

Politics:
Word came from Roll Call yesterday that a Democratic trio of hard-scrabble Senate race veterans — Jim Jordan, Joe Hansen, and Diana Rogalle — have joined up to form a new 527 called the Senate Majority Project (or "SMP," as opposed to "SSMP") with the apparent mission of generating opposition research and guerilla press and political operations against not-in-cycle Republican Senate incumbents and presumed future candidates.

Ah, the Permanent Campaign.

According to Jordan, they're simply filling a glaring hole in the Democratic Party machinery, and the goal is to harass and generate negative press in the years when incumbents generally operate out of the media spotlight. Jordan's speculation regarding the possibility of an expanded mission for the Senate Majority Project might intrigue some.

Hmm.  This seems vaguely familiar...