{"id":4249,"date":"2005-05-20T09:30:42","date_gmt":"2005-05-20T13:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/4249.html"},"modified":"2005-05-20T09:30:42","modified_gmt":"2005-05-20T13:30:42","slug":"santorum-speaks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/santorum-speaks\/","title":{"rendered":"Santorum speaks"},"content":{"rendered":"

The fact that Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum compared Dems to Nazis<\/a> yesterday from the Senate floor did not go completely unnoticed by political reporters. As far as I can tell, there were no stand-alone reports on Santorum’s slur, but his remarks were included in many stories<\/a> about the ongoing fight over judicial nominees.<\/p>\n

The senator’s office apparently received enough calls about this that he was compelled to respond<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Santorum issued his own clarification yesterday evening, stating that the reference to Hitler was “meant to dramatize the principle of an argument, not to characterize my Democratic colleagues.”<\/p>\n

“My point was that it is preposterous for someone to trample a well-established principle, and then accuse his opponents of acting unlawfully when they try to reestablish that principle,” Santorum said. “Nevertheless, it was a mistake and I meant no offense.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

“No offense”? Let me get this straight. Dems want to preserve a 214-year-old Senate procedure, which Republicans have used repeatedly, and Santorum disagrees. He therefore feels justified in comparing Dems to Hitler, but he “meant no offense<\/i>“?<\/p>\n

Maybe Santorum is on some kind of prescription medication voters don’t know about. Or maybe he’s suffered some kind of serious head trauma that has impaired his judgment. Either way, the man has “issues.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fact that Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum compared Dems to Nazis yesterday from the Senate floor did not go completely unnoticed by political reporters. As far as I can tell, there were no stand-alone reports on Santorum’s slur, but his remarks were included in many stories about the ongoing fight over judicial nominees. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}