Santorum BLOWS HIS STACK at reporter in public today over K ST Question

[kpete]

Santorum blows his stack at reporter in public today
by John in DC - 1/25/2006 06:56:00 PM


AMERICAblog's spies on the Hill tell us that at 4:34pm Eastern today (gotta love their precision) Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA) "totally blew his top, totally lost control" while getting off the underground train that connects the US Capitol building and the Dirksen Senate Office Builing.

It seems a reporter approached Santorum just as he got off the train and asked Santorum something to the effect of: "Can you tell me about the 'K Street Project.""

Santorum's response?

He started screaming, according to our source. "It's just a meeting!", Santorum reportedly yelled (again, in public, right near the Senate cafeteria where lots of folks are gathered). "What Harry Reid said Wednesday is a total lie!"

In fact, the K Street Project is an infamous little conspiracy that Tom Delay created back in the 1990s, and Santorum is the Senate's liaison to that little conspiracy. Thus the reason Ricky isn't too happy about being asked about it:

HOW THE K STREET PROJECT WORKED: In his dealings with K Street lobbyists, DeLay explicitly stated he would operate by “the old adage of punish your enemies and reward your friends.” (To gain influence over legislation, trade associations and corporate lobbyists were ordered to do three things: 1) refuse to hire Democrats, 2) hire only deserving Republicans as identified by the congressional leadership, and 3) contribute heavily to Republican coffers.) Despite being admonished by the House Ethics Committee numerous times for his conduct, DeLay’s pay-to-play machine continued to plow full-speed ahead. With federal benefits up for sale, corporations quickly identified the need to need to hire more lobbyists, giving rise to one of the greatest growth industries in America. Grover Norquist, head of Americans for Tax Reform, proudly proclaimed in 2002 that “will have 90-10 on K Street and 90-10 business giving.”

Someone isn't eating their Wheaties if a simple reporter's question is making them blow their stack in public.

http://americablog.blogspot.com/2006/01/santorum-blows-his-stack-at-reporter.html

[KingFlorez]

1. Rick, keep screaming everyone can hear!

He's going crazy!

[SammyWinstonJack]

2. Perhaps he doth protest too much?

:yoiks:

[politicaholic]

3. I think Santorum will be yelling at phone poles in a decade...

that's one crazy mo-fo.

[babylonsister]

4. If ya can't stand the heat... nt

[tigereye]

5. frankly

"I'd love to see that pissant blow more than his stack," she said unkindly.

[Cha]

6. "Someone didn't take their

chill pill today"..to quote Luis Guzman in "Traffic".

[SoCalDem]

7. I remember delay ON TV , crowing about the "project" and how

it was "only fair" that since the republicans were "in control", that they would "prefer" conducting business with people they "could get along with"..

I remember thinking at the time, "how smug" of him..

[Synnical]

8. How come the Repukes can say "lie"

And the Dems never do - when the Repuke lies are so often and blatant?

:crazy: :grr: :shrug:

[boobooday]

9. It's just a meeting!

Santorum seems like he might be headed for the Sanitarium.

Weirder and weirder.

They're crumbling.

:woohoo:

[catmother]

10. i would have loved to see that. nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

11. "Santorum getting off underground train" - you mean out of his cave?

Low life neandrethal knuckle dragging RW puke.

[FatDave]

12. A Santorum Explosion?

Eewwwww....!

Too juvenile? OK, just one more....

Sounds like the guy was really frothing.