Rick Santorum Hates Everyone

[Stingo]

Rick Santorum slams both Barack Obama and John McCain today, implying that bipartisanship is the product purely of political calculation and playing to the media. That’s a twofer: Whining and blaming the media and complaining about anyone to the left of Mussolini. Yes, Rick Santorum is clicking on all cylinders today, a real whack job gone wild!

http://allspinzone.com/wp/2009/01/15/rick-santorum-hates-everyone/

[kristopher]

1. Who is Rick Santorum? nt

[sui generis]

6. don't you mean "what" is santorum?

"that frothy mixture of lube and fecal matter that is sometimes the byproduct of anal sex."

it's on wiki, it must be true. :silly:

[Somawas]

2. Santorum should go to work for Fred Phelps.

Would they love each other, in a totally straight, not man-on-dog kind of way? You betcha!

[Stingo]

11. Sanotrum and Phelps

Would scare Satan out of Hell, once they got there. Alas, they just might be too mean to die.

[Phred42]

3. Santorum is a degenerate Freak - but he might be correct here

Frank NAILS it here, and says it far better than RS.


Obama Should Act Like He Won
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123189731669479777.html

THOMAS FRANK

As we anxiously await the debut of the Obama administration, we hear more and more about the incoming president's "post-partisan" instincts. He has filled his cabinet with relics of the centrist Clinton years. He has engaged the evangelical pastor Rick Warren to give the invocation at his inauguration. And according to Politico, he wants 80 Senate votes for his stimulus plan -- a goal that would mean winning a majority among Republicans as well as Democrats.

Maybe these will turn out to be wise moves. Maybe they won't.

Audacity they ain't, though. There is no branch of American political expression more trite, more smug, more hollow than centrism.

After all, as Mark Leibovich pointed out in Sunday's New York Times, transcending faction has been the filler-talk of inaugural addresses going back at least to Zachary Taylor's in 1849. When you hear it today -- bemoaning as it always does "the extremes of both parties" or "the divisive politics of the past" -- it is virtually a foolproof indicator that you are in the presence of a well-funded, much-televised Beltway hack.

Centrism is something of a cult here in Washington, D.C., and a more specious superstition you never saw. Its adherents pretend to worship at the altar of the great American middle, but in fact they stick closely to a very particular view of events regardless of what the public says it wants.

[Demeter]

4. And Everyone Else Hates Rick, So We're Even

Rick Who?

[HillWilliam]

5. Rick who?

Sphinctorum.

[yellowcanine]

7. Has Ricky decided in which state he resides? VA or PA?

[Stingo]

10. He lives in VA

But his values don't let him make a decision.

[struggle4progress]

8. Let's take a peek: "Obama also faces the reality of needing at least one Republican senator to join

him to break filibusters"

Um, strictly speaking, Rick, Obama is going to the White House, not to the House, which is under an entirely different branch of government. Also, just for the record, filibusters do not occur in the House, but in the Senate, which is a different half of Congress. I know it's confusing, Rick, but people who spend in DC usually eventually learn these things

Since you're no longer in DC, let me just point out that seventeen (17) Rs recently joined Ds to prevent a filibuster. And, just to be on the safe side, let me point out that 17 > 1. So if Obama needs "one Republican Senator .. to break filibusters," maybe he could just ask for advice from Harry Reid, who knows something about the Senate

[Stingo]

12. You don't expect Santorum to figure this out

do you?

To be serious, for Santorum this is about power, all about how Obama may or may not be able to gain the support for his agenda. It isn't much about right or wrong, until you map Santorum's firm belief that only the most extremist of Republicans is right on anything.

[LeftishBrit]

9. What a lunatic.