So Rick Santorum has a new job

[TomInTib]

Rick’s Return
Life after the Senate for Santorum.

By John J. Miller

Rick Santorum has gone from junior senator to senior fellow: As of today, the Pennsylvania Republican is an employee of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, a Washington-based think tank. “I want to contribute to the world of ideas,” he says.

After 16 years in Congress — four in the House, 12 in the Senate — Santorum lost his bid for reelection in November.

Yet he hopes to remain in the public spotlight as director of the EPPC’s brand-new America’s Enemies program.

“It’s a stark name,” says Santorum. “But we wanted to be candid about the fact that America really does have enemies and to point out that the nature of these enemies is much more complex than what people realize. It’s not just Islamic fascism, but also Venezuela, North Korea, and, increasingly in my opinion, Russia.”

more on what frothy-boy is up to:
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YzBjNzUxODVjNDczMDkwMmU3YjJmYjM2MzVjODQwYmM=

[provis99]

1. cool! he can commission a big study on man-dog marriage

really, to paraphrase an old Al Frankin joke, connecting Santorum with "Ethics" is like connecting Bob Dornan with a committee on mental health.

[liberaldemocrat7]

11. Rick Santorum: Enemy of American people.

Perhaps most Republican conservatives act like the enemies of the American people as well.

[MichiganVote]

2. What? No Hospice at $7 an hour? Ricky, Ricky Ricky......

[demosincebirth]

3. What the hell is a think tank?

What do they do...what do they sell?

[Eric J in MN]

9. They publish papers without peer review.

The Project for a New American Century published papers about how we should invade Iraq, but it will take a Pearl Harbor type event to get public support.

[TheCowsCameHome]

19. He tanked, alright.............

[Eric J in MN]

23. They get soft money from right-wing corporations...

NT

[Robson]

4. Arrogance is an understatement

This only proves that anyone can get a job in DC, regardless of ethics, integrity and message. Santorum is a loser that somehow was elected to the US senate by a naive electorate to a job he was unqualified to do.

I've seen Rick speak, and he is an arrogant ass. My experience with arrogance is that those afflicted with it use it to cover up other character defects.

[TomInTib]

13. Did you sit thru the whole speech, Robson?

and welcome to DU.

[scarletwoman]

5. Oh good. A think tank devoted to making sure we never run out of "enemies".

“It’s a stark name,” says Santorum. “But we wanted to be candid about the fact that America really does have enemies..."

No, "America" doesn't have enemies, the OWNERS of America have enemies -- and they do what the Ruling Class has always done -- in every society throughout history -- control the masses through fear.

sw

[kskiska]

6. So I guess he's still going to live in Virginia

instead of at his "primary residence" in Pennsylvania.:sarcasm:

[Eric J in MN]

10. Hmmm, now that he's not a Senator,

...will the state of PA stop paying for his kids education?

[BurgherHoldtheLies]

7. Maher: ‘You Can’t Call Yourself a Think Tank if All Your Ideas Are Stupid’

Sums it up for me re: (p)Ricky's new employment. He is no longer my Senator, and, for that I am ecstatic.

[Eric J in MN]

8. A man who rode in a Wal-Mart corprorate jet as a Senator,

....is now at an "Ethics and Public Policy Center."

[flashlighter]

12. “I want to contribute to the world of ideas,”

Hee hee.... I don't even need to make a joke.

:)

[me b zola]

14. OMG, I know, but allow me anyways

...too bad the world of ideas that Santorum is thinking of was 200 years ago when dark skinned people & women were chattle.

Hmmm, so many possibilities. You should begin your own thread, I love to see the genius minds of DU @ their most devious!

Welcome to DU, flashlighter! :toast:

[flashlighter]

15. Mmm...beer...

thank you :)

[Gman]

16. Thought he'd be a lobbyist for the private weather industry

maybe TWC's head lobbyist.

[Hubert Flottz]

17. He belongs in a tank alright...

Maybe



Or

[TomInTib]

24. Effing great!, H F.... nt

[Hubert Flottz]

28. Thank you...

Ricky Recycle is plotting against our freedom in one of the GOP's subversive think tank. Why do they hate Freedom and Liberty For All? Why do they hate real democracy? Why do they hate Americans?

Rick is just another discarded big turd in the small tank now. He needs to GET OVER IT and JUST MOVE ON! GOP think Tanks are cancers eating away at the United States Of America that our founders created for us ALL to enjoy. A bunch of selfish, self-serving terra mongers. Rick is just part of that stinking GOP sludge.

[Yukari Yakumo]

27. No, he doesn't...

He belongs in front of a tank, a moving tank.

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. Nuts. I was hoping he'd clean my septic tank, you know, the stink tank

Now who do I call?

[Hubert Flottz]

21. Roto Ricky...

I wouldn't trust him in a shithouse with a muzzle on!

[proud patriot]

20. big Fat Rassberry

:P

[Hubert Flottz]

22. I'm gonna'...

:kick:

[spindrifter]

25. But I thought he'd sign up to go to Iraq!!

Think tanks are for wusses!

[Rex]

26. Sorry Sick Rick, but the world doesn't want a NAMHLA.

He knows what it means.