From
Atrios to
santorumexposed to you: two witty local journalists writing on what a jerk Rick Santorum is.
I know: that's not news. But they're columnists. And, poor souls, they've probably actually read Santorum's book.
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Francis Volpe in the
Carlisle Sentinel, under the headline
"Senator in a hole, should stop digging," reviews the dog-love thing and Boston's strange moral suasion over priests. Volpe goes on to say:
Santorum, for all his "takes a family" posturing, is, in his book, a lot more worried about Harriet receiving a welfare check. And though he doesn't say it straight out, he strongly implies that accepting government assistance is directly related to moral turpitude.
Whatever happened to "judge not lest you be judged?" . . .
Ever hear of the "K Street Project?" It's a GOP initiative to strong-arm lobbying firms into firing Democrats and hiring Republicans. Santorum is a big player in this initiative, which reflects no New Testament value I'm familiar with.
Nancy Eshelman, in the Harrisburg Patriot-News, writes about a press conference call for the Catholic media, in which Santorum took pity . . . on himself. (Hey, glad to know he's capable of compassion.):
Santorum was on the line, decrying the controversy, accusing his political enemies of trying to weaken him while he runs "the top political race in the country."
Then he said, "It's sort of sad that they would use religion and this tragic time for purely partisan, blatantly political purposes."
'Cause, you know, Santorum would never do that.
Actually, that's not the main point of Eshelman's column: Santorum refused to let a Jewish reporter from the Patriot-News pose a question, despite the journalist's pointing out that his paper has plenty of catholic readers in the state Santorum represents.
That's it. Nothing profound. Simply further confirmation that, "Santorum, that's Latin for asshole."