Perry kowtowing to the "The Race":
Posted on 02/24/2012 6:21:48 PM PST by writer33
You lose respect with that tag line. Time to change it, dontcha think?
You people drove out the best candidate and now you’re whining that you don’t like anyone.
They seem to be upset that people are debating their claims that Santorum's record in Congress is "no different than a pro-life Democrat" and "fiscally, he is to the left of Bush" with facts. Since they have no facts to back up their anti-Santorum attacks, they're crying fowl that people dare challenge it.
He was really good at taking it for the team. Don't ya know.
Before I get to Sen.Santorum’s disgracefully lacking ‘conservative’ fiscal record, let me tell you about the dishonest Rick Santorum.
This compassionate Christian conservative founded a charity that under the law of the State of Pennsylvania should have been registered.
In 2001, following up on a faith-based urban charity initiative around the 2000 GOP convention in Philadelphia, Santorum launched a charitable foundation called the Operation Good Neighbor Foundation. While in its first few years the charity cut checks to community groups for $474,000, Operation Good Neighbor Foundation had actually raised more than $1 million, from donors who overlapped with Santorum’s political fund raising.
Where did the majority of the charity’s money go? In salary and consulting fees to a network of politically connected lobbyists, aides and fundraisers, including rent and office payments to Santorum’s finance director Rob Bickhart, later finance chair of the Republican National Committee. A responsible charity doles out at least 75 percent of its income in grants but the figure for Operation Good Neighbor Fund was less than 36 percent. The charity – which never did register with the state of Pennsylvania as required under the law -— was finally disbanded in 2007.
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“He [Santorum] was a fiscal conservative.”
No, he isn’t.
http://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/legislative/g_three_sections_with_teasers/legislative_home.htm
NEA
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program
Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapists, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted against TANF reform
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.
Nope. The two people referenced in the tagline are still soft on illegals, so it stays. FReepers keep saying that this issue is sooo important, so I'm bring to their attention which candidates are bad on it.
>> You people drove out the best candidate <<
Are you a Perrybot that's blaming me for the fact Perry wasn't ready for prime time and made a fool of himself on stage repeatedly? That's what happens when you're not used to having credible opponents in years.
>> and now you’re whining that you don’t like anyone. <<
Huh? When have I ever said that on FR? If you read my posting history, I said over and over again which 3 GOP candidates for President I liked best, and I've never wavered from that. How do you get the idea that I "don't like anyone" when I'm on this thread defending Sen. Santorum's record and saying he's quite good on fiscal issues? Weird.
No- there is nothing obvious about Rush. If you listened, on the day after the “satan” controversy, Rush had four (4) little monologues on satan- think that helped Rick???
He also did a piece where he revealed that he had once fooled “99%” of his audience into believing that some country guy’s music had satanic lyrics embedded backward— telling one caller to “burn ‘em”— Some respect for his rube audience, huh? Question is, are 99% being fooled now?
As to the Satan issue, he said affirmatively- twice- that the stories came from a Dem source-— how’s he know that?
I think it’s Romney— funny, how Rush didn’t even consider the possibility. How’s he know Romney didn’t feed the Dems the story?
After the debate— he complimented Newt- with a back-hand slap; “Newt did well because there was no pressure” .
Years ago, Rush would always say that he gave priority to callers who called in on “cell phones” because these people were obviously successful. He worships people with money- no matter how they made it. Romney.
Rush has always had disdain for the “mushy moderates” that are ruining the GOP, so he says. So, Romney should have been stricken from the list at the outset, right? Hasn’t happened.
He’s for Romney. Don’t doubt me on this.
That list is a little simplistic and you post it way too much.
Perry kowtowing to the "The Race":
The prediction of whether or not Rush’s support of Santorum will come back to haunt him or not.
“That list is a little simplistic and you post it way too much.”
LOL! I’m not the only person here on FR who recognizes that Santorum is dishonest, a liar and a hypocrite. But, he is a good family man!
Is there any issue or bill that Santorum took the leadership position on while in the Senate?
I am really interested if he does, indeed, have a pattern of real leadership.
Ah. So since his actual policy positions don't gel with your "fiscal liberal" rhetoric, you're calling him a liar. Even though he wasn't running for President at the time and had nothing to gain from opposing the GOP leadership. Yeah, everyone's a liar except the Santorum bashers here-- including all the organizations who have spent decades studying candidates on fiscal issues and give him solid ratings. It's all a lie. That's nice. ::yawn::
>> Had he been in office I have no doubt he would have jumped into line <<
Given his record in office and his scores from the Club for Growth, I disagree. Funny how the "fiscally conservative" candidates were also "out of office" at the time of the bailouts and yet they DIDN'T oppose them. I guess they're lying too and those guys really would have voted against it if they had the chance. Black is white and up is down.
I doubt you.
I also doubt you’ve even listened to Rush much lately.
Does that count?
When did he do that?
Yep, Santorum is a liar.
I wonder whose permission he got for that.
Oh, I was in no way pushing a theory; i was simply responding to what the other poster said and considering it. Nothing more than that. I will also concede that I’m definitely no expert on cochlear implants.
Simplistic?? It's Santorum's voting record!!!
And, yes, it counts!
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