Call A Doctor: Santorum’s K Street Amnesia Worsening
Call A Doctor: Santorum’s K Street Amnesia Worsening
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) has been suffering from a debilitating case of amnesia about his leadership of the K Street Project and his close ties to Jack Abramoff.
Santorum’s latest lapse is over fellow K Street Project pioneer Grover Norquist (who has a whole page on his organization’s website devoted to the K Street Project). Here’s Santorum yesterday:
I had absolutely nothing to do — never met, never talked, never coordinated, never did anything — with Grover Norquist and the — quote — K Street Project.
But the connection between Santorum, Norquist, and the K Street Project is in the public record. In 2002, Norquist described meeting with the K Street Project:
He [Santorum] has gotten me in to talk to all those guys [in the K Street Project].
At the time, Santorum even admitted that he “allowed Norquist to speak to the group.”
Santorum’s amnesia is getting so bad, it may be time for Senator Frist, M.D., to step in. Maybe he’ll conduct one of his famous video diagnoses using this 2005 tape of Santorum and Norquist (who, of course, have “never met”):
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January 27th, 2006 at 4:53 pmPaging Dr. Frist? Dr. Frist, please report to the Audio/Visual room for a long distance video diagnosis. We need to know if Sen. Santorum is in a persistent vegitative state.
January 27th, 2006 at 4:58 pmSeriously, look at that picture. Chevy Chase could easily pass for Rick Santorum in the made-for-TV movie.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:01 pmWhat is Santorum smoking? Pass it around.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:06 pmThis explains it all.
It’s been the first hit on Google for several years now.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:07 pmSantorum singing his rendition of the Sesame Street song:
“Can you tell me how to get, how to get to K-Street?”
January 27th, 2006 at 5:08 pmI’m shocked, shocked I say to find out Little Ricky is a self-serving liar. And I am reminded of the VP claiming to have never met Sen. Edwards. What is it with Republican memory loss?
January 27th, 2006 at 5:09 pm#5 - Little Ricky forgot he wasn’t supposed to drink that stuff — it causes memory problems.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:09 pmOn Gover’s website, he calls the K Street Project “non-partisan”. Yeah, and I’m Santa Claus!
t-mac
January 27th, 2006 at 5:09 pmK Street Project “non-partisanâ€
I thought using the two in a sentence would cause some kind of matter/anti-matter reaction. Learn something new everyday…
January 27th, 2006 at 5:11 pmNon-partisan is not how the GOP works, and Grover knows that.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:13 pmA+ for snark and hard-hitting truth, not softball “truthiness”.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:19 pmIf Ann Coulter can suggest that Justice Stevens have rat poison put in his creme brulee, we can call for Grover Norquist to be thrown out with the bath water he drowned the baby (our government and country) in, after we drown him in it.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:26 pmSantorum forgot to call around and get all the photo’s, video and print connecting himself to k street. He IS a slow learner.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:29 pmThis is great news. Another bit of free campaign material for the Casey (or whoever) camp in November. The downside of course is that Rick will come out of this just fine (and rich).
January 27th, 2006 at 5:30 pmGOP definition of “non-partisian”: No OTHER Party
January 27th, 2006 at 5:31 pmSpeaking of Casey,
A pretty hard-hitting review of Carville and Begala’s new book by Chales Pierce at TAP.
A+ for snark, again. No “truthiness”, just truth. I just have nothing in common with wimps of any party.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:34 pmI think Washington will have to increase the amount of fire departments soon, because of all the pants in town that are catching on fire….
January 27th, 2006 at 5:37 pmSantorum is frantic - he will soon be looking for a real job. But he will fail the psychological test.
January 27th, 2006 at 5:51 pmmr ho say you very smart man.
January 27th, 2006 at 6:02 pmmr ho ask ho so you get so bad memory so fast?
mr ho always say ‘if it a ho. it a bad memory.’
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GOP definition of “non-partisianâ€: No OTHER Party
Comment by t-mac — January 27, 2006 @ 5:31 pm
Excellent!
Send it in to the Nation’s Dictionary of Republicanisms.
January 27th, 2006 at 6:09 pmThe James Frey syndrome.
January 27th, 2006 at 6:21 pmLooks like Rickie is “toast”. Keep talking Rickie - every word you say is one less vote for Rickie.
January 27th, 2006 at 6:33 pmG gordon,see the Washington monthly take on the review.
January 27th, 2006 at 6:45 pmI’m thinking about a new campaign theme…
Can you really vote for a candidate with such poor memory?
January 27th, 2006 at 7:14 pmright on who wants a candidate with alzheimers at 50?
January 27th, 2006 at 7:17 pm27 LOL
January 27th, 2006 at 7:22 pmIf Ann Coulter can suggest that Justice Stevens have rat poison put in his creme brulee, we can call for Grover Norquist to be thrown out with the bath water he drowned the baby (our government and country) in, after we drown him in it.
Comment by G. Gordon Giddy — January 27, 2006 @ 5:26 pm
omg, I just had an epiphany! Mighty aphrodite = Ann Coulter
January 27th, 2006 at 7:23 pmMighty aphrodite = Ann Coulter
Vitriolic, shrill, unhinged, nonsensical. Sounds like we got a match.
January 27th, 2006 at 7:44 pm#10 - “K Street Project “non-partisanâ€
January 27th, 2006 at 8:11 pmI thought using the two in a sentence would cause some kind of matter/anti-matter reaction. Learn something new everyday…”
****You mean like TP/non-partisan, unions/non-partisan, chamber of COMMERCE/non-partisan??? Here’s another trick for you to learn.
Santorum was born with amnesia!
He has severe brain damage so forget about him!
Hopefully he will be voted out next November election!
January 27th, 2006 at 8:51 pmKeith Olbermann’s ’second worst person in the world’ went to Ann Coulter tonight. Don’t be too hard on him for not putting her at the top. That was awarded to….well, I’m sure you can figure that out.
January 27th, 2006 at 8:54 pm[…] Hat Tip to Think Progress. […]
January 28th, 2006 at 1:46 amCatholics are honest at confession. That gives them permission to lie to everyone else. He needs to be smashed like a wet turd.
January 28th, 2006 at 7:52 amThis is one of the BEST illustrations yet of republiscum commitment to “creating reality”…
“Do not believe your lying eyes and ears, only the words that are coming out of my mouth at THIS particular moment are relevant…your eyelids are growing very heavy now….you are getting sleeepyyy”
- Senator Rick Sanitarynapkin
January 28th, 2006 at 9:21 amIt is not amnesia, it’s lying! What would the Pope say with all the lies coming out of those Catholics mouths? Little Ricky will not make it to heaven unless he put a confessional in his house.
January 28th, 2006 at 1:54 pmNORQUIST ROVE ABRAMOFF and WAHABIS
http://www.citizensoldier.org/norquist.html
Grover Norquist, whom most conservatives know as Executive Director of the College Republicans, boardmember of the NRA, and head of Americans for Tax Reform, has been exposed as helping Muslim groups and individuals who finance and support Islamic terrorismgain access to the Bush White House.
Norquist has also been exposed as the founder of the Islamic Insitute, a group believed to be funded by foreign governments, Wahhab Islam elements in Saudi Arabia, and U.S. Muslim groups recently raided by a special Treasury Department task force for funding Al Qaeda and Palestinian terrorists. The Islamic Institute’s website lists the following goals:
1. Cultivate and expand Muslim activists and mobilize the community at the state and federal levels on issues affecting the American Muslim community.
2. Provide a platform to promote an Islamic perspective on domestic issues (social and fiscal) to help enhance the Muslim community’s input in the decision-making process.
3. Run aggressive campaigns at the state and federal levels on issues affecting the American Muslim community.
Wahhabi Islam funding from Saudi Arabia appears to have been instrumental is creating and and sustaining a large number of organizations involved in such troubling activities as:
1. Recruiting felons into Islam in U.S. prisons
2. Recruiting U.S. military personnel
3. Proselytizing on more than 500 college campuses across the United States
4. Covertly raising funds for terrorist groups through U.S.-based Muslim charities
5. Providing financial support - and gaining control - of 70-80 percent of U.S. mosques, and
6. Setting up private Muslim K-12 schools to indoctrinate U.S. Muslims into fundamentalist Islam (We ran an expose on one of these located just a few miles from our HQ which you can find at http://www.citizensoldier.org/madrassa.html.)
Norquist’s relationship with Muslim groups that support terrorism became public after Norquist launched an unexpected and inexplicably vitriolic attack against Frank Gaffney, the President of the Center for Security Policy.
During a routine Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in early February, Gaffney participated in a panel discussion about the balance to be struck in time of war between preserving civil liberties and safeguarding American’s lives and safety. Gafney expressed concern about one of the most insidious of the Wahhabis’ activities, a concerted attempt to penetrate and influence the Executive and Legislative branch of our government.
Gafney noted that groups like the American Muslim Council (AMC) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have been able to gain access to the White House thanks to the White House’s Associate Director of Cabinet Affairs Ali Tulbah, a Muslim, and his predecessor, Suhail Kahn. At the same time, Tulbah and Kahn have excluded moderate American Muslim groups from White House access. Both Tulbah and Kahn have family ties to extremist Wahhabi religious groups. AMC and CAIR have expressed support for Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda and are actively campaigning to waterdown immigration controls, law enforcement, and intelligence gathering.
Gaffney’s concerns are legitimate, because granting access to Muslim extremists gives them a chance to exercise undue influence over policy - undermining the war on terrorism - and confers a legitimacy that allows them to dominate the U.S. Islamic community.
Norquist responded to Gaffney’s comments by calling Gaffney a racist and religious bigot in an appearance on Fox News Channel and in letters sent to the Washington Post and Washington Times and barring Gaffney from attending the most important meeting in Washington, the regular Wednesday meetings of conservative Capitol Hill aides and interest-group representatives held in Norquist’s offices.(just Like King George)
It is unclear whether the Muslims who have been acting as White House gatekeepers - Ali Tulbah and Suhail Kahn - were actually placed in that position by Grover Norquist’s Islamic Institute. Norquist is credited with delivering the Muslim vote for Bush in the 2000 election and has the ear of the most influential man in Washington, Karl Rove, President Bush’s political advisor. Rove has been a featured speaker at Norquist’s Wednesday meetings.
Although it is not noted on either group’s website, Norquist’s Islamic Institute actually shares office space and staff with Americans for Tax Reform.
According to news reports, while Norquist served as founding Chairman of the Islamic Institute the group received seed money from Abdurahman Alamoudi, then a member of the left-wing American Muslim Council. MSNBC and Fox News have aired videotapes of Alamoudi standing in front of the White House, declaring his support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Hamas is currently one of the leading groups responsible for Palestinian suicide bombers. Hezbollah, sponsored by the Iranian government, was responsible for the death of 240 Marines in Beirut in the 1980s and is believed to be responsible for the attack on Khobar Towers, a barracks in Saudi Arabia
January 28th, 2006 at 2:46 pmNORQUIST ROVE ABRAMOFF and WAHABIS
http://www.citizensoldier.org/norquist.html
Grover Norquist, whom most conservatives know as Executive Director of the College Republicans, boardmember of the NRA, and head of Americans for Tax Reform, has been exposed as helping Muslim groups and individuals who finance and support Islamic terrorismgain access to the Bush White House.
Norquist has also been exposed as the founder of the Islamic Insitute, a group believed to be funded by foreign governments, Wahhab Islam elements in Saudi Arabia, and U.S. Muslim groups recently raided by a special Treasury Department task force for funding Al Qaeda and Palestinian terrorists. The Islamic Institute’s website lists the following goals:
1. Cultivate and expand Muslim activists and mobilize the community at the state and federal levels on issues affecting the American Muslim community.
2. Provide a platform to promote an Islamic perspective on domestic issues (social and fiscal) to help enhance the Muslim community’s input in the decision-making process.
3. Run aggressive campaigns at the state and federal levels on issues affecting the American Muslim community.
Wahhabi Islam funding from Saudi Arabia appears to have been instrumental is creating and and sustaining a large number of organizations involved in such troubling activities as:
1. Recruiting felons into Islam in U.S. prisons
2. Recruiting U.S. military personnel
3. Proselytizing on more than 500 college campuses across the United States
4. Covertly raising funds for terrorist groups through U.S.-based Muslim charities
5. Providing financial support - and gaining control - of 70-80 percent of U.S. mosques, and
6. Setting up private Muslim K-12 schools to indoctrinate U.S. Muslims into fundamentalist Islam (We ran an expose on one of these located just a few miles from our HQ which you can find at http://www.citizensoldier.org/madrassa.html.)
Norquist’s relationship with Muslim groups that support terrorism became public after Norquist launched an unexpected and inexplicably vitriolic attack against Frank Gaffney, the President of the Center for Security Policy.
During a routine Conservative Political Action Conference meeting in early February, Gaffney participated in a panel discussion about the balance to be struck in time of war between preserving civil liberties and safeguarding American’s lives and safety. Gafney expressed concern about one of the most insidious of the Wahhabis’ activities, a concerted attempt to penetrate and influence the Executive and Legislative branch of our government.
Gafney noted that groups like the American Muslim Council (AMC) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) have been able to gain access to the White House thanks to the White House’s Associate Director of Cabinet Affairs Ali Tulbah, a Muslim, and his predecessor, Suhail Kahn. At the same time, Tulbah and Kahn have excluded moderate American Muslim groups from White House access. Both Tulbah and Kahn have family ties to extremist Wahhabi religious groups. AMC and CAIR have expressed support for Hamas, Hezbollah, and Al Qaeda and are actively campaigning to waterdown immigration controls, law enforcement, and intelligence gathering.
Gaffney’s concerns are legitimate, because granting access to Muslim extremists gives them a chance to exercise undue influence over policy - undermining the war on terrorism - and confers a legitimacy that allows them to dominate the U.S. Islamic community.
Norquist responded to Gaffney’s comments by calling Gaffney a racist and religious bigot in an appearance on Fox News Channel and in letters sent to the Washington Post and Washington Times and barring Gaffney from attending the most important meeting in Washington, the regular Wednesday meetings of conservative Capitol Hill aides and interest-group representatives held in Norquist’s offices.(just Like King George)
It is unclear whether the Muslims who have been acting as White House gatekeepers - Ali Tulbah and Suhail Kahn - were actually placed in that position by Grover Norquist’s Islamic Institute. Norquist is credited with delivering the Muslim vote for Bush in the 2000 election and has the ear of the most influential man in Washington, Karl Rove, President Bush’s political advisor. Rove has been a featured speaker at Norquist’s Wednesday meetings.
Although it is not noted on either group’s website, Norquist’s Islamic Institute actually shares office space and staff with Americans for Tax Reform.
According to news reports, while Norquist served as founding Chairman of the Islamic Institute the group received seed money from Abdurahman Alamoudi, then a member of the left-wing American Muslim Council. MSNBC and Fox News have aired videotapes of Alamoudi standing in front of the White House, declaring his support for Hamas and Hezbollah. Hamas is currently one of the leading groups responsible for Palestinian suicide bombers. Hezbollah, sponsored by the Iranian government, was responsible for the death of 240 Marines in Beirut in the 1980s and is believed to be responsible for the attack on Khobar Towers
January 28th, 2006 at 2:47 pmRICKY S IS DEAD FROM THE NECK UP. A REAL MEAT HEAD!
January 29th, 2006 at 9:01 pmGrover Norquist, whom most conservatives know as Executive Director of the College Republicans, boardmember of the NRA, and head of Americans for Tax Reform, has been exposed as helping Muslim groups and individuals who finance and support Islamic terrorismgain access to the Bush White House.
Comment by Wolfoputz #41
Hey Wolf!
Hey that’s not fair…
That’s like playing on both sides…
You are getting veeerrry sleeepyyyy….
…anybody heard from IRI, i’m worried about him?
January 30th, 2006 at 1:01 pm[…] ThinkProgress is hot on the pursuit to de-spin the lies of Senator Rick Santorum (R-Pennsylvania) regarding the GOP lobbying scandal. According to Amanda from ThinkProgress, Santorum is suffering from a "debilitating case of amnesia." Santorum’s latest case is on fellow K Street Project pioneer Grover Norquist (who has a whole page on his organization’s website devoted to the K Street Project). Santorum: I had absolutely nothing to do — never met, never talked, never coordinated, never did anything — with Grover Norquist and the — quote — K Street Project. [emphasis added] […]
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