Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
By on May 4th, 2006 at 1:04 pm
Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA)
called for restrictions on lobbyist-funded travel on Feb. 28. Six days later, he used “a BellSouth plane to travel to North Carolina and South Carolina.” Santorum said he did not have the “luxury” of a self-imposed ban because he is running “one of the most expensive Senate races in the country.”
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Oh, it's the old "I can't be ethical just yet. However, if re-elected, I promise to be ethical then!"
May 4th, 2006 at 1:07 pmGOP mantra: "Do as we say, not as we do."
I like this quote from Rick:
"I don't see anything inconsistent about that," Santorum said. "Where does it end? I'd like to reduce the gas tax. Should I just not pay the gas tax?"
Fuzzy logic there, Rick.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:11 pmWTF do North Carolina and South Carolina have to do with a Pennsylvania senatorial campaign?
May 4th, 2006 at 1:11 pmHe is SO going to lose. One would have to have been labotomized to vote for this white trash bigot. What a sleeze.
Just like his jumping on the bandwagon of torte reform only AFTER his wife sued a hospital for a fortune. An obvious creep that sleeps with fetuses and wants to kill convicts. Yikes this guy is an alien or something.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:13 pmSanatarium does not live work or play in PA.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:20 pm#3 Excellent point, Walt.
This is why I believe in something I call "Indistrict Financing" for federal ofice holders. The gist is that you can only collect campaign comtributions from individuals (no corporations or PACs), and only from people whom you will be representing in Congress.
The people of Pennsylvania have a right to know why the Senator feels that he should have his Senate run sponsored by people whom he will not be representing in Congress. (This is based on the premise that he was campaigning for himself.) What happens to them if he meets a wealthy benefactor in the Carolinas who will find a way around election laws to get him more money? Does he then become beholden to this out-of-stater? What if the benefactor wants things that will hurt Pennsylvanians? Would he vote for the benefactor, or the people whose votes actually got him there? He, and all others members of Congress who accept campaign money from people they won't be representing, should explain why they do it.
And expensive campaigns are no excuse. Find a more financially responsible way to campaign if you have to.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:31 pmYikes this guy is an alien or something.
Comment by progressive and proud — May 4, 2006 @ 1:13 pm
#4, P&P,
I would prefer to think it's "or something". I like to think that if there are aliens from another planet living among us, they're nothing like this guy.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:33 pmSen Santorum was for restrictions on lobbyist-funded travel before he was against them.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:37 pmSantorum will lose his reelection campaign. But he will have the last laugh when he becomes a lobbyist with a $1,000,000+ salary and perks we cannot imagine. What is it they say about "power corrupts"?
May 4th, 2006 at 1:41 pmWhen did Rick start representing the citizens of North and South Carolina? Or is it just the monied interests there that he desperately needs. I totally agree with Wayne's point that our Legislators need to limit their fundraising to their districts. If Rick and the rest of the Republican Syndicate are getting their $ from out-of-state interests, whose interests are they representing in Congress?
May 4th, 2006 at 1:42 pm#6
I like that logic, now just try and get that passed by the FEC or Congress.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:50 pmWoo-Hoo! I finally beat y'all to posting something! I had this up yesterday. :)
May 4th, 2006 at 1:50 pmI HOPE RICK GOES DON'T IN THIS RACE. HE IS A FOOL.
May 4th, 2006 at 1:50 pmSarcasm on
May 4th, 2006 at 1:56 pm"Ethics" is now a luxury. So until I win the lottery and can afford to be law abiding, I should start shop lifting to keep myself in items like DVDs and Books and electronic toys? I really would like a high powered electric screw driver and an inflatable sex toy.
Sarcasm off.
I guess that means his opponent doesn't have that luxury either.
May 4th, 2006 at 2:04 pm#11 Well, first, the FEC must enforce whatever rules the Congress makes them enforce. Then, we have to elect people to Congress who understand that their first loyalty must be to their country and not their political party. Do not vote for any Democratics or Republicans. They are a major part of the problem. Vote them all out. Then do the same thing to their replacements if they don't change the laws. Lather. Rinse. Repeat.
May 4th, 2006 at 2:04 pmDo as I say, not as I do, from the guy who calls himself Mr. Morality.
Yeh, right, that is the moral ethical thing to do. Keep on doing the same old unethical crap.
Hey Santorum. If everyone in Congress was doing bestiality, would you do that too? Given your logic, you would.
May 4th, 2006 at 2:08 pmWayne - in a perfect world that would work, but we are stuck with the world we have. I am voting democrat because when I compare what the republican party stands for with what the democratic party stands for the democrats win by a landslide. What is the alternative? Someone will win, I would rather it be a democrat.
Now, if I could just find a way to get Feingold.......
May 4th, 2006 at 2:10 pmAnd expensive campaigns are no excuse. Find a more financially responsible way to campaign if you have to.
Comment by Wayne A. Schneider — May 4, 2006 @ 1:31 pm
I think they call that 'rationalization' 'Lobbyists'.
They can get REPAID [Earn=$$] later, at the publics expense, for that expensive campaign they took donations for, and of course pay back the 'donors'...
May 4th, 2006 at 2:11 pmSen. Sanitorium is somehow closing the gap in the race in Pennsylvania -- I couldn't believe it when I read that today. After deceiving taxpayers, after falsifying his address for the preferred schools, after the stupid comments he has made concerning social issues, the jerk is gaining in the polls! Who the hell is running against him?
May 4th, 2006 at 2:19 pm#18 I understand, Jules. But unless and until each and every member of Congress is willing to stand up and change the rules and laws to what they should be, then we will be stuck with what we have. There are other political parties, many of them liberal and/or progressive in their platforms. I'm sure there are others running who could represent your views just as well as the Democratic candidate, but without the corporate baggage they all seem to be carrying. We must all break ourselves out of the mindset that we HAVE to choose from the two major parties or our vote means nothing. Don't you fall for it. That's exactly the way they want you to think. They want the races to be between two and only two candidates. They want you to think you must pick one of them. This is how they maintain their hold onpower: By denying YOU the chance to put someone in there who will take those powers away. We can do it. I know it sounds idealistic, but if you're willing to hold your nose and vote back in the same people, then there really is no hope for any of us.
Sure the non-major party candidate you vote for will likely lose, but at least you can look yourself in the mirror and say, "I didn't vote for the bum who won." You can say you tried to do something.
Whatever you do, just go out and vote. Actually participating in the process is more important than whether or not your candidates win.
May 4th, 2006 at 2:19 pmSantorum knows he's toast.
Good bye little fella!
May 4th, 2006 at 2:51 pmSantorum should be in a Sanitarium.
May 4th, 2006 at 3:29 pmAss-kissing, flip-flopping, flag-waving,
Red White & Blue whiz kid who is proud
to have a preserved embryo on the mantle.
Jesus Christ, is this what the Republican'ts
have become? Pennsylvania...can't you do
any better that this and Arlan 'I'm so mad
at the Presidense now'?
Oil prices will fluctuate in direct relation to the poll numbers of politicians who are in bed with the oil industry. Look for gas prices to drop like a rock in the weeks before the mid-terms, if enough GOP seats are at risk. I'd sell short around labor day.
Hes just trying to save the Oil Companies Interest, dont yall Unnerstan? See? look.
May 4th, 2006 at 3:41 pmhttp://www.pollkatz.homestead.com/files/NEWBUSHINDEX_28670_image001.gif
Here's an interesting plot that shows the correlation between Bush's [Republicans] approval rating and gas prices.
or KLICK HERE
May 4th, 2006 at 3:44 pmhey dick, why are you calling for a law making it illegal what youre doing now? this from one of the leaders of the morons that say our morals and laws are given to us by god, not the state.
May 4th, 2006 at 3:44 pmRead the market report pages long enough, and you will see the same reason used for both downs and ups in the market. Notice that the surge prior to Bush's statement was attributed to "tensions" in Nigeria and Iran. Have the problems in Nigeria and Iran been solved? Did they not have problems a week ago or a month ago or a year ago? As J said, the strategic reserve draw-down was just a drop in the barrel - not nearly enough to create a difference in worldwide demand such that the price of oil would drop.
Oil, Fuel, Cost Management 'Crisis Style'!
May 4th, 2006 at 3:50 pmthe jerk is gaining in the polls! Who the hell is running against him?
Not against, but 'with', He Said it himself, 'Expensive Advertising' People are Couch Potatoes, feed em crap and they Grow.
May 4th, 2006 at 3:54 pmHey Rickie - I'm from PA. I knew you didn't give a rat's ass about us here in PA. We are going to "Kick Rick Out" this November.
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