Apparently the house that Rick Santorum owns in Penn Hills, PA is now vacant (it was previously rented out to family members). However, you shouldn't try to confirm that yourself because the police have stepped up patrols in the area of the house based on reports of trespassers. Here's the story from KDKA-TV

Our new web ad illustrates yet another example of Rick Santorum's stunning hypocrisy. Back in 1992 Rick starred in his own commercial and chastised Congressional leaders for running up massive deficits and passing the bill along to our children. Rick said back then that he would, "continue my fight to clean up Congress and its greedy spending practices."

Sadly (but not surprisingly), ending "the greedy spending practices" of Congress wasn't the focus of any Santorum battles. Instead, he fought his way into the Senate leadership, and he's led us to budget deficits of more than $1.25 TRILLION. Watch the ad to see Rick say one thing and do the exact opposite. Don't forget to share the ad with your friends, family members and contacts.

Last night on MSNBC's Countdown, Keith Olbermann reported on Rick Santorum's hypocrisy in regard to subsidized trips on corporate jets. A story originally reported in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

Keith's face at the end of this clip perfectly sums up our reaction to Rick's justification of his behavior based upon his logically flawed comparison to the gas tax. Here's the video:

Yesterday's Philadelphia Inquirer lays out yet another case of Rick Santorum's hypocrisy. While Rick was publicly pushing to add a provision to ethics reform legislation that would end corporate-subsidized flights for members of Congress, he was taking advantage of those very same corporate-subzidized flights to travel to fund raisers.


Not surprisingly, the corporate travel provision he was pushing while he was the "point man" on ethics reform was not included in the final package.

Jon Delano, from KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh, asked Rick Santorum whether he's on the side of oil companies who are reaping huge profits, or the consumers who are now paying $3 a gallon for gas. Delano's question was based on the fact that oil companies have been very generous to Rick, giving him more than $400,000 over his Congressional career. Delano didn't bring up the fact that Rick voted to give more than $2 billion in tax breaks to oil and gas companies in last summer's energy bill. Watch the Delano video here.

Here's Rick's answer:


It's also only logical that oil and gas companies would support people who vote to give them giant tax breaks while they're making record profits, right Rick? Whose side do you think Rick's on?

Rick Santorum recently addressed students at North Catholic High School in Pittsburgh and said something that we found very interesting. Rick was telling the students that when he was growing up he didn't live close enough to a Catholic high school to attend one. But that's not what we found interesting, what was interesting was when Rick said this, "So, I didn't go to a Catholic high school when I was living in Pennsylvania." (emphasis ours)

We find it refreshing that Rick has decided to drop all pretense and acknowledge that he doesn't live in the state he represents. Here's the video:

The Beaver County Times tells us about Lloyd "Skip" Haswell, a Marine Corps veteran who was recently listed as a member of a group of "Veterans for Santorum." It seems that Rick's recent vote against an amendment to provide "an assured stream of funding for veterans health care," and his failure to respond to Mr. Haswell's inquiries about that vote, have caused Mr. Haswell to reconsider his support for Rick:


We agree with Mr. Haswell, veterans do deserve answers from Rick Santorum to questions like this one: why do you vote to continue tax cuts for the rich at the expense of health care funding for veterans?

Please call Rick's office or send him an email and see if he'll answer your questions.

Here's Rick's number: 202-224-6324
Click here to email Rick.

Let us know in the comments if you get any answers.

Rick Santorum has received yet another distinction. A Survey USA poll released yesterday puts Rick's job approval rating at 39% and his disapproval rating at 53%.

This poll makes it official, Rick Santorum is now the least popular member of the U.S. Senate. Congratulations, Rick.

In the latest episode of HBO's The Sopranos, Tony Soprano discusses his feelings about homosexuality with his psychiatrist. During the discussion we learn that Tony agrees "with that Senator Sanatorium" when it comes to what societal acceptance of homosexuality might lead to. Here's the video:

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Rick Santorum spoke to the conservative Pennsylvania Leadership Conference last night. During his address he spoke about faith in the United States and compared it to the role of faith in western Europe. Here's what Rick claims is happening to western Europe because of secularism, "Those cultures are dying. People are dying. They're being overrun from overseas... and they have no response. They have nothing to fight for. They have nothing to live for."

On the other hand according to Rick, "More people go to church on Sunday in America than go to all of the sporting events in America held in a year combined." We're not sure where that statistic comes from or what it means, but Rick seems to find it reassuring. Here's the video:

Earlier this week Rick Santorum said the ethics reform bill that passed the Senate was "a much tougher bill than I think anyone could have anticipated when we started this process."

The Philadelphia Inquirer's Editorial Board seems to disagree:

Rick Santorum, the self-proclaimed Republican point man on ethics reform, voted yesterday to kill a proposed independent ethics office. Apparently he doesn't want outsiders policing Senators.


It's too bad the Republicans chose Rick for their point man. While Rick was preparing to vote against the independent office, Sen. John McCain proved that he understood why it would be an important addition to an ethics reform package.


Why Doesn't Rick get that?

Rick Santorum was on Imus in the Morning today and he discussed his charity with Don. Santorum said that other than helping to raise money and hand out checks for the charity, which he created and serves as honorary chairman of the board for, he doesn't have a large role in it. He claims he doesn't decide who gets money from the charity and he doesn't really know many of the charity's donors. At the end of the interview Imus suggested that Rick should find out more information about the charity.

Do you believe that the founder and chairman of what Rick characterizes as a "small, little non-profit" wouldn't know its donors?  And what exactly has happened to Rick's belief in personal responsibility?  Why is he comfortable being the public face of Operation Good Neighbor on its web site and for the purposes of handing out money, but unwilling to take responsibility for or even acknowledge the charity's questionable practices?

Here's background info on Santorum's charity problems. Here's the video:

In an editorial titled "Lobbyist Reform as a Shell Game," the New York Times skewers Rick Santorum and his role in the current effort to reform Congressional ethics rules. Here's an excerpt: