Santorum blows his stack at reporter in public today

[MelissaB]

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.”

More: http://americablog.blogspot.com/

[annabanana]

1. HA!. . . Poor Little Rickie can't take it

What I would give for a phone capture of THAT little encounter!

[AnnInLa]

2. Heads Up about Little Ricky's Lobbying Reform Proposal

It includes huge restrictions on 527's like MoveOn.org

[Bluzmann57]

3. Tick...Tick...Tick...

BOOM! That's Santorum's head exploding. It seems that maybe the pressure is getting to him. And that's a real shame. Or not.

[annabanana]

4. short fuse santorum... .ha! . . . . . eom

[Maestro]

7. Did he look like this?

Santorum is such an asswipe. All his little scheming and conniving are coming back to haunt him.

[MelissaB]

8. ROFL

I've never seen that before.

[annabanana]

5. aw c'mon guys... this will finish him off!

any thought he may have had of continuing his political career goes down the drain if the public hears of this...

[Binka]

9. Give Rick A Break He Needs To Quit And Spend More Time With His Fetus

:evilgrin: That smarmy unctuous shitdustsack is going down hard. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

[WernhamHogg]

11. LOL!

Ya beat me to it! :P

[tanyev]

6. And you don't want to be standing too close

when Santorum blows his stack. Ewwww.

[druidity33]

10. everyone here googled Santorum?

Be wary, the results are rather graphic and for some EXTREMELY offensive. Apparently some cyber-prankster has managed to define the "word" Santorum as the remnants of anal sex... it was called a google b*mb... anyone know how to do that?


...little stickers...

[ComerPerro]

12. No more offensive than the Senator's own comments on the subject

But, yes, I've googled it, and I encourage everyone here to do so, to help out the googlebomb.

Its very funny

[jberryhill]

15. Spreading Santorum?

Hmmm... seems your buddy Scott Mclellan has something to add to that at his new platform at scottmclellan.com

(not safe for work)

[Crankie Avalon]

17. I think it was Dan Savage...

...in his sex advice column, "Savage Love." He asked everyone to start using Santorum's name for that definition, and it apparently "stuck" so to speak.

[GliderGuider]

18. noun: That frothy mixture...

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

Man, I have that memorized! And it's quickly becoming common usage in my circle of friends and acquaintances.
E.g., I read an interview of Sarah Polley (actress: Road to Avonlea, Beowulf and Grendel) who paused to sip her coffee and said, "Yuck! That tastes like santorum!"

Dan Savage, sex advice columnist, held a contest about 2 years ago asking for people to make up definitions for "santorum" (note lower case, therefore an entirely different word). Of all the submissions, he selected a half dozen or so and people voted on the most appropriate. This definition won hands down. Why? Ricky's obsession with the mechanics of how gay men make love, his attention to the nitty gritty (so to speak) details -- it is only right that this be acknowledged and commemorated.

[rodeodance]

13. and the think that he will lead the Senate "Reform" on lobbying. geech.

[DoYouEverWonder]

14. I hear Santorum's weekly K Street meeting

to place Repug operatives into every company just got cancelled. The Repugs told him he can't do that any more. No wonder he's so upset today.

[WilliamPitt]

16. A better link

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

[Roland99]

21. AH HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!

[Roland99]

19. Oh Ricky he's so mad he blows his mind. Hey, Ricky. Hey, Ricky.

[mac56]

20. And they showed Howard Dean's yell on TV a gazillion times.

How many times do you think this gets shown?