Santorum polishes his compassionate credentials

[RT_Fanatic]

Wouldn't want anyone to spew his breakfast this morning, but I found this on the front page of my morning P-G. usually a reasonable paper, for some reason the P-G loves Santorum.

:puke: :puke: :puke:

Santorum polishes his compassionate credentials

Sunday, June 05, 2005

By Maeve Reston, Post-Gazette National Bureau

WASHINGTON-- At a recent forum on increasing savings, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was asked how difficult it would be to persuade his fellow Republicans to set aside several billion dollars a year to help low-income children save for college and retirement.

In response, the senator put forward what is likely to be a key message in his 2006 re-election campaign:

"I've always said the president has a compassionate conservative agenda, and J.C. Watts and I are the two Republicans who are going to try to enact it," Santorum said half-jokingly. "Now it's just me."

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http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05156/516041.stm

[Cooley Hurd]

1. There's nothing compassionate about a man who traumatizes...

...his own kids by exposing them to a dead fetus - live and in color.:thumbsdown:

[Skittles]

4. he is one sick bastard

ugh

[rzemanfl]

2. They'll need the money to pay for weather reports, not college

or retirement.

[undeterred]

3. low-income children won't be the only ones needing help

to go to college. Even the state schools are becoming unaffordable to the midle class.

[benfranklin1776]

5. Wow, nice campaign puff piece there by the PG.

No meaningful exploration of his hideous legislative record in this area and nary a mention of Ranger Rick's prior comment: "It's not the worst thing in the world for people to have to struggle"


Maeve Reston is hardly known for being fair and balanced in her reporting. Like most of the Washington press corps, her writing about this administration is an exercise in fawning juvenility. Guess she just reprinted the Sanitarium press release on this one.

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[CatholicEdHead]

7. Why is he only starting now to institutie it?

He has plenty of time over the past few years to push the "compassionate conservative" plans.

Out you go next fall Rick.

[Kerrytravelers]

8. Compassionate people often wait until their election cycle to begin

*showing* concern for those less fortunate.

Showing= pretending