Today the Allentown Morning Call and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette both have Rick denying any involvement in the K Street project. Rick now says his weekly meetings with lobbyists had nothing to do with the K Street project. Here's the Post-Gazette's description of just how similar those meetings and the project were:
The "K Street Project," which was led by conservative activist Grover Norquist and then-House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, was an effort to press Washington's lobbying firms and trade associations to hire Republicans who share their agenda.
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Since he became the Senate's third-ranking Republican in 2001, Mr. Santorum has held weekly meetings with top Republican lobbyists at which he discusses, among other matters, job openings at Washington lobbying firms.
But, in interviews with the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, he has said those discussions -- which he previously referred to as "the K Street meetings" -- are merely to ensure Republicans are putting forward good candidates for the jobs.
As if that weren't enough to make you question the veracity of Santorum's latest denials, here's
what he told the
Post-Gazette about the K Street project back in November:
"The K Street project is purely to make sure we have qualified applicants for positions that are in town," Mr. Santorum said. "From my perspective, it's a good government thing."
Santorum also told the
Morning Call that he hadn't seen Grover Norquist "in years." When, in fact, Norquist spoke at a Santorum press conference last June.
Hey Rick, I know you've had a rough time since June and it may have felt like years. But it's only been six months since you and Grover teamed up.
Does anyone believe anything this guy says?
This is like when you Left-Wing Ideologues claimed Vice President Cheney "met" John Edwards just because they sat next to each other for an hour or two. It's like you partisan hacks claiming that President Bush "knows" Jack Abramoff simply because he was a "Bush Pioneer," was known to have met the President on several occasions and was picked to be on Bush's transition team. You act like people don't always withhold photographic evidence of being with persons whom they don't even know to further prove they don't even know them.
I mean...C'mon