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The three scariest words known to mankind

POSTED: Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 3:57 PM

The Santorum administration:

THE SUN hasn't even set, and already Jan. 20, 2013, is going down as the wildest presidential Inauguration Day in more than three decades, since the Gipper declared that "government is the problem" and the Ayatollah freed the hostages.

After taking on the ghost of JFK in his inaugural address - "Ask what you can do for your family, your God, and yourself . . . free from the tyranny of government" - President Rick Santorum raced back to the White House to sign more than a dozen executive orders.

The new 45th president cut off federal funding for many overseas family-planning programs, steered new dollars into abstinence-only education and created "conscience exemptions" allowing institutions to opt out of Obama health-care reforms.

Then, as Santorum was throwing on a tuxedo for his inaugural ball featuring Up With People, an aide knocked on the door. "Ahmadinejad just closed down the Strait of Hormuz!" - a speedy reaction to the new president's bellicose talk on Iran.

Of course, the deal with "President Santorum" (or "El Presidente Santorum" as an overenthusiastic Daily News headline writer called him, perhaps a bid to increase our Hispanic circulation?) is completely different with Barack Obama winning election in 2008. With Obama, the concern was he would not do the things he promised, and unfortunately that's been true in too many cases. With Santorum, the danger is that he will do exactly the things he's promised America.

Meanwhile, the flap of the day is Santorum making robo-calls to Democratic voters in Michigan. I never thought I'd say these words in this order, but I agree with Rush Limbaugh on this: What's the big deal? I thought the Republicans want a candidate with some cross-over appeal to Democrats. What Santorum has done, however, is hand Mitt Romney a gift-wrapped excuse if Romney indeed loses one of his 17 home states. In fact, Romney isn't even waiting for the polls to close to start using it.

Will Bunch @ 3:57 PM Permalink | 10 comments

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:01 PM, 02/28/2012

OT, but this is something that may interest you. The collapse of print advertising, also shows declining circulation numbers.http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2012/02/the-collapse-of-print-advertising-in-1-graph/253736/ (HTML deleted)

— RG

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 4:43 PM, 02/28/2012

It's going to be interesting to see who wins the nomination. Either one will lose to Barack Obama. If it's Santorum, will the GOP realize how far right the party has drifted? Does the base divorce themselves from the anti-education, anti-science and anti-woman rheoric of Pope Rick? Will the term 'moderate Republican' become an oxymoron?

What if Romney gets to wear the GOP clown costume - and lose to President Obama? Does the Republican Party double down on stupid, decide the candidate wasn't "conservative" enough and maybe convince Rush Limbaugh to run in 2016?

Judging by some of the comments in the earlier peice, I think the R's are living in an alternate universe, where people think that they're worse off than they were 4 years ago. Back here on planet Earth, unemployment is slowly improving, the major indexes have regained much of what they lost, al Qaeda has been mortally wounded and the GOP has done nothing but obstruct the President from taking measures to accelerate the recovery. Republicans hate Obama more than they love America. Sad.

— wokmaster

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:25 PM, 02/28/2012

I guess there's no need to go to the polls in November. A recent USA Today/Gallup poll indicates that it's gonna be a brawl this summer. Question: Can the community organizer hold up? BTW, confusing hate for disagreement is childish.

— A Friend

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 5:26 PM, 02/28/2012

The scariest three words here are "read the comments".

— zagrobleny

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:36 PM, 02/28/2012

===}}} BTW, confusing hate for disagreement is childish. {{{===

Good point. All that fake-Christian, foreign-born Muslim, socialist who bails out capitalists, anti-religious crusader, out-to-destroy America, apologist to dictators rhetoric. It has nothing to do with hate.

Too funny.

— Talking point sleuth

0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 6:52 PM, 02/28/2012

You agreed with Limbaugh? Wow at least you got something right today!

— georgel

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0 like this / 0 don't • Posted 9:33 PM, 03/02/2012

The scariest three words are" your freaky commentators.

— sophistry

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God's messenger comes down to remind us of the true meaning of scandal
The day the Obama administration went Nixon on us
Teacher, teacher
And your bird can flip
What would Ayn Rand say about Bryz
Before Obama probed the AP, the right wing tried to destroy it
Dept. of I Told You So

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