Sleeveless wonder Rick Santorum told the
HuffPo today that he's still steamed about the birth control situation:
Elaborating on why he opposed the revised version of the Obama contraception rule, he explained that he didn't believe insurance companies should cover contraception at all.
"This has nothing to do with access," he said. "This is having someone pay for it, pay for something that shouldn't even be in an insurance plan anyway because it is not, really an insurable item. This is something that is affordable, available. You don't need insurance for these types of relatively small expenditures.
Now, we all know he's hiding the ball here. Why, I'm not sure. He's at CPAC, and he's already said many times that he just flat thinks contraception is wrong. But in this particular section of the interview, he chooses to focus on the fact that birth control is—he says—relatively cheap and available. So it really shouldn't be insurable, because most people can afford it out of pocket.
Mind you, this lecture on personal fiscal responsibility is coming from the guy who made his PAC pay for his freaking $4 Arby's sandwiches! Not to mention stops for Starbucks, pizza, ice cream, Burger King, pretzels and Chinese food!
This is also the guy who pretended his family of eight lived in a 3-bedroom bungalow in Penn Hills, PA, while they were really living in a $750,000 McMansion in Leesburg, VA. Why? Not just so that he cold pretend to be a Pennsylvania voter, but also so he could charge the Penn Hills school district for the cost of home schooling his kids—yes, the ones living in Virginia!
And how is it that all eight of them were living in that McMansion on just his Senate salary, anyway? Thanks to a sweetheart mortgage from a private bank he should have had no business borrowing from in the first place, that's how. And he got his hands on his new house through a little financial trickery known as the "Creamcup Trust." What's that? Well, it was a shell trust set up for the purpose of buying him a house he couldn't yet afford, before the big lobbying paychecks started to come in. How personal a deal was it? The house is on Creamcup Lane in Great Falls, VA. I'd say that's a pretty narrowly-tailored deal he had going there.
And don't even get me started on how he drained the coffers of his "charity" in order to keep his friends' pockets lined. (Including the pockets of Rob Bickhart, who later gained notoriety as the RNC finance director fired by Michael Steele over various improprieties, including the infamous event at the lesbian bondage club.)
Point is, Rick Santorum has less than no business lecturing Americans about what they should and shouldn't have to pay for out of personal funds. A low-rent chiseler like that should be embarrassed he even brought it up.
Stick to the theocratic cheerleading, Rickster. The money management moralizing isn't for you.