WTF?!? Santorum blasts the National Weather Service...

[tallahasseedem]

http://witf.org/temps/FM/news1.shtml

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Washington) -- U.S. Senator Rick Santorum is suggesting that early mistakes in predicting the path of Hurricane Katrina may be a symptom of lost focus at the National Weather Service. Santorum, who introduced legislation earlier this year to curb the output of government weather forecasters, says tracking life-threatening weather must be central to what the agency is doing.


I didn't think he could be any more of a douchebag....I was wrong.

[Nikki Stone 1]

1. Pennsylvania, PLEASE, PLEASE show up at the polls and trash this guy!

How does someone this stupid......

I'm sick of asking that question.

Sigh.

[rug]

12. Will do.

:thumbsup:

[BlueEyedSon]

2. He is getting "lobbied" (you know, PAID) by accu-weather

[punpirate]

4. Exactly--this is part of his ongoing effort...

... to privatize the NWS. There weren't any inaccuracies in their forecasting. They gave appropriate warnings to the affected areas well in advance. Their estimations of the center of the storm track thirty-six hours before landfall were off by only about thirty or forty miles.

Santorum keeps saying this shit because he gets away with it. But, I do wish that someone in the media would do a little investigative reporting on his relationship to firms such as Accu-Weather. He doth protest a bit too much, methinks.

[NoQuarter]

3. He's pushing privatization. And wouldn't

you know it, he's pushing an organization that is a loyal GOP contributor.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. Rewrites the truth every time he opens his mouth. Stupid, ignorant,

worthless asshole.

[Nikki Stone 1]

6. kicking

:kick:

[KamaAina]

7. What mistakes? Once it turned north, NWS was right on top of it.

And how did Santorectum's precious AccuWeather do with its predictions, might I ask?

Hurricanes are inherently unpredictable, especially when they lose forward momentum. Look at what's going on now with Ophelia, for instance.

Santorectum, on the other hand, is entirely predictable: every time he opens his pie hole, you're gonna :puke: !

[Dulcinea]

8. Santorum is an embarrassment.

I wish I could move back to PA to vote that f*ckstick out.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. how else is he gonna privatize it

Think like a republican and you will get it

[rumpel]

10. This is why we need creationism taught instead of science, and put pastors

in charge of tracking the weather.:evilgrin:

[LuCifer]

11. I wish someone would blast Santorum!

Oh man, and this guy somehow got elected?! Oh wait excuse me, I forgot about DIEBOLD and ES&S!

Lu