rick santorum

Bowing down to Rick Santorum and placing his lips on Santorum's ass, Hannity has taken the lead in suck ups for lies this year. On his site hannity.com, Hannity ran the following poll:

This of course follows Santorum talking about the WMDs found in Iraq. Of course what Santorum and Hannity both fail to mention is that these were the weapons from the early 90's that were essentially destroyed. These are the same weapons that we have known about and the U.N. weapons inspectors even admitted being destroyed. This is the typical style of lies these warmongers will resort to in order to win elections. They want to try and scare Americans into voting for Republicans when in fact these are the biggest pussies in the country.

Another interesting poll running on Hannity's site right now asks "Do you think Israel is justified in attacking Hezbollah?" Interesting results in that one. Currently 74% of the respondents say Israel has gone to far. I am sure the webmasters at Hannity's site will quickly change those numbers around to something more right wing sounding.

On April 18, 2005, the Washington Post did a write up about Rick Santorum entitled "Father First, Senator Second". This story was really creepy as it talked about Santorum bringing the dead fetus home from his wife's miscarriage and treating it as part of the family. You can read more about it in my post titled The Creepy Side of Santorum from last July or read the entire article here.

13 months later and the Washington Post does not cease to amaze. They published an article today entitled "Bill Frist: A Doctor at Heart". Again they show us how creepy these Republicans are. Instead of going into details, I urge you to either read the article or check out the great synopsis Aravosis did on it. Both of these articles are about the creepiest thing that could have ever been published in a newspaper.

Poor Ricky Santorum. The guy can't stay out of trouble:

Progressive ethics watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in
Washington has filed a complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee alleging
that Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) violated the Senate Gift Rule by accepting
a mortgage from The Philadelphia Trust Company, a bank that serves affluent
clients, RAW STORY has learned.

The filing comes in response to an article in the American Prospect by
Philadephia Daily News reporter Will Bunch.

The following is a release from CREW, who filed the complaint. Such a
complaint is not a formal complaint, as only senators or congressmembers can
file ethics complaints against other members.

View complete article

here.

You know it is something when the guy the GOP turns to for ethics reform is
also deep into ethics problems of his own. Get ready for the spin from his
office now.

To show how seriously Bill Frist is taking the corruption in Washington here
is a nice press release:

CREW CRITICIZES CHOICE OF SANTORUM TO CREATE SENATE ETHICS PACKAGE
Santorum’s Corrupt Behavior Disqualifies Him for Ethics Task Washington, DC
– The choice of Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) this week to head the ethics
charge in the Senate demonstrates Majority Leader Bill Frist’s (R-TN) deaf
ear to the importance of high ethical standards in the Senate.

According to The Washington Post, shortly before Thanksgiving, Senator
Frist, asked Sen. Santorum to draft a package of lobbying restrictions.

“Senator Santorum’s history of unethical behavior suggests that he is
more likely to undercut any real ethics reform than he is to toughen ethics
rules,” Melanie Sloan, executive director of CREW said today. “We strongly
question Senator Frist’s decision to choose a Senator that CREW listed as
one of the 13 most corrupt Members of Congress.”

Among Sen. Santorum’s unethical conduct:

•Sen. Santorum runs the K Street project, created by conservative
activist Grover Norquist and former Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), in
which he ensures that all top lobbying and trade association jobs are filled
by Republicans;

•Two days before Sen. Santorum introduced a bill that would benefit
private national weather companies at the expense of the National Weather
Service, the Senator's political action committee, America's Foundation,
received a $2,000 donation from the chief executive officer of AccuWeather,
Inc., a leading weather data provider located in State College, PA.;

Santorum is putting blame onto NOAA for not giving a good enough warning in
the lead up to Katrina's disastrous landfall. Here is what
WITF is reporting:

Santorum has critical words for forecasters in wake of Katrina 09/09/2005
Damon Boughamer (Washington) -- U.S. Senator Rick Santorum is suggesting
that early mistakes in predicting the path of Hurricane Katrina may be a
symptom of lost focus at the National Weather Service. Santorum, who
introduced legislation earlier this year to curb the output of government
weather forecasters, says tracking life-threatening weather must be central
to what the agency is doing.

Asked about Katrina by WITF, Santorum described weather service warnings
for Florida, where the storm first made landfall, as, quote, “not
sufficient.” Santorum’s bill instructs the government to abandon weather
prediction and data reporting efforts that duplicate private-sector
activity. He came under fire when it was revealed that the head of State
College-based AccuWeather, which would benefit, has given his campaigns
thousands of dollars.

In the wake of a disaster, Santorum once again has taken the argument to a
politically funded level. I

posted a couple months ago on this bill Santorum is trying to get through,
and it is a joke. It is meant as another way to only help businesses.

The whole argument started when NOAA started releasing forecast and
conditions for the country via an XML feed. They were just releasing data that
they already had, but Accu-Weather was upset over it. Why? Because it would lead
to further competition for them.

A nice summer evening. Sitting outside, looking up at the sky and watching
the clouds go by. We are under a typical summer time storm watch, and there are
small storms just to the north. Of course I was already informed of this via my
Weather Bug, an advertiser supported
application, that I have installed on my computer.

Then suddenly I remember an article I read in April, a month before the birth
of my blog. The article, published by the

Palm Beach Post brought me out of the clouds and into the reality once again
that our government does not care about the citizens, but rather the corporate
contributors that support their costly campaigns.

Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa, introduced

Senate Bill 786 on April 14 of this year. This bill would limit the data
that the National Weather Service, a government agency, would make available to
the public. The bill is the result of a fueling debate between the
NWS and the private sector over
publishing forecast data.

The NWS recently introduced a new free service on their
website that provides the public, free of charge, forecast information for their
particular zone. This has upset the corporate weather services such as
Accuweather, who fears this free
service could cost them.