What a surprise. Here’s Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum on eminent scholar Hugh Hewitt’s radio show. (via The Blogger in the Grey Turtleneck Bra (via Information Liberation:

[SANTORUM:] Between now and November, a lot of things are going to happen, and I believe that by this time next year, the American public’s going to have a very different view of this war, and it will be because, I think, of some unfortunate events, that like we’re seeing unfold in the UK. But I think the American public’s going to have a very different view….

(Love the Lemony Snicket reference!

But Rick, how would you know?

You know, I just hate to be cynical:  Read more 

The rich winger who bought the Inky thinks that when we repudiate Rick “Down Boy” Santorum (R-Let’s Have the Kids Handle the Dead Fetus) at the polls, we’re really saying that we want to read him in the editorial pages of the sadly diminished Inky.  Read more 

Hahahahahahahaha! Poor widdle Rahm, it couldn’t have happened to a nicer DCL shitbag. Go watch the video. It’s funny.

Yadda yadda, I can hear it already, “This just makes us look divided, we can’t be mean to our leaders in the party, dirty hippies will alienate the center, blah blah.” Well, I’m so sorry but I just can’t seem to care. The Little People standing up and demanding an end to the war? During an announcement of “ethics reform” that’s about as meaningful as one of Bush’s Shakespeare essays? To a guy who’s stabbed progressives activists at every turn he gets? At a time when even Democratic senators are calling for a “surge?” Wow. Look at this tiny little violin I’m playing, and hear the sad, sad tune it’s making.

Kudos to Fox News for playing their role in the tsk-tsking of progressives. Nice pic of Cindy, you asshats. And could you smirk a little less, BobbleBlondie? Really, your concern is touching. Still- this motivates me to get going with my day and wander around the Capitol a bit today. I can’t wait to see what else the “troublemakers” and “disruptors” get up to.

Santorum meltdown. Did they have a dog off-camera, or what?

The meltdown is about two minutes in, but Santorum comes out as a mouthy little twerp throughout. And Casey comes off as poised, knowledgeable, and articulate.

(The money Little Ricky should give back is the $100,000 that Pennsylvania taxpayers gave to educate Santorum’s kids in Virginia.)  Read more 

I aspire to snark, but there are times when one must defer to a master of the art. Tony Norman of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette has been on a tear lately. Today he writes in the form of a letter to the Allegheny County’s Office of Children, Youth and Families, the local child-abuse people.

… the television ads featuring the children of Sen. Rick Santorum testifying to his paternal greatness prompted me to contact CYF. The sight of those poor devils conscripted into their father’s doomed re-election campaign moved me to tears.

The ad opens with Johnny “Damian” Santorum telling a big lie: “My dad’s opponents have criticized him for moving us to Washington so we could be with him more.”

Johnny’s disingenuous characterization is followed by Daniel “The Hammer” Santorum’s glib summary of the Penn Hills cyber school kerfuffle: “And they criticized us for attending a Pennsylvania public school over the Internet.”

Oh, out of the mouths of babes came two big lies.  Read more 

Sen. Frothy-Mix Santorum is really living up to his nickname today. Goes on Imus to do the Tinkerbell clap about these “weapons of mass destruction” (a bunch of rusted out shells with chemical residues we’ve know about since ’03 or thereabouts) that justifies his vote for Bush’s War whether those Pentagon pussies think it does or not. But he can’t find 30 seconds to mention, much less denounce, this atrocity. Via the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:

Thousands of low-income Pennsylvania families with young children will receive less help this summer from a government program that allows them to purchase fresh fruits and vegetables from farmers’ markets.

State officials said cuts in federal funding have prompted them to eliminate children younger than 4 from participating in the Farmers’ Market Nutrition Program.  Read more 

Atrios, this one’s for you:

The women were ordered to leave by a state trooper hired to provide security after a member of Santorum’s promotional team overheard them talking before the senator arrived, according to the suit. When two of the women asked why they were being ejected, they were arrested, the suit say.  Read more 

They are really cheap whores, our leaders. I was reading this and wondering, “where’s the real money?” Then I hit this passage:

Public Citizen’s Congress Watch The Bankrollers 37

In recent years, Kies has used his remarkable skill and motivation to lobby Congress and the IRS to retain a tax credit that costs the Treasury an estimated $1 billion to $4 billion a year and appears to serve no public policy purpose other than enriching the businesses that exploit it.56 It’s called the synfuel tax credit, and it stems from a 1980 law created by Congress as an incentive to use coal and other fossil fuels to create synthetic natural gas and oil as alternatives to foreign sources of energy.57 But tax sleuths eventually figured out that the law’s loose definition of synthetic fuels could be exploited to claim massive tax credits for producing products that barely differed from conventional fuels.58

By 2006, opportunistic companies – including the hotel chain Marriott and retail electronics chain Rex Stores Corp. – had created 55 plants that were fashioning synfuel by such means as spraying regular coal with diesel fuel, pine-tar resin, limestone or various other substances. Industry critics call the practice “spray and pray,” the prayer being that the IRS doesn’t conduct an audit that results in an unfavorable ruling. Time, which has published a pair of exposés on synfuel, estimated that the tax credit cost the Treasury $9 billion from 2003 to 2005.  Read more