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This Wont Play Well In South Carolina
Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)
Wednesday, January 4th at 10:43PM EST
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Rick Santorum has some pent up issues with Jim DeMint.
Just a few weeks before DeMint stood for re-election on South Carolinas ballot, Rick Santorum showed up in DeMints neighborood to tell everyone Jim DeMint was wrong on earmarks. Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said the Constitution gives Congress control of the purse strings and that he supported earmarks for port deepening while a senator the opposite of the position that DeMint is taking. But former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia said DeMint has shown moral courage in refusing to support any earmarks, including one that the State Ports Authority says is needed to study the deepening of Charleston Harbor.
Santorum went on John King USA on CNN tonight and again defended earmarks claiming Jim DeMint did it too without acknowledging DeMint repented and has since led the fight against earmarks. When asked about what he may or may not have said about black welfare recipients, Santorum defended himself by claiming he got earmarks for a black community in Pennsylvania.
Get ready for conservatives to have to refight this critical fight against the gateway drug to big government spending.
Its not just Rick Santorum knocking Jim DeMint (!!!) when not hiding behind DeMint to claim tea party bona fides, Santorum is also going to have trouble in South Carolina because of his voting record. He opposed National Right to Work legislation.
In the 104th Congress Sen. Santorum joined all Democrats and a minority of Republicans in voting to filibuster the bill S. 1788, the National Right to Work Act of 1995. (On the Cloture Motion (motion to invoke cloture on motion to proceed to consider S.1788), Senate Bill Clerk, Vote Number: 188, U.S. Senate, 7/10/1996)
During that same congressional session, Santorum also voted to retain the 1930s-era Davis-Bacon Act that forces taxpayers to pay union wages in government-funded construction and gives Big Labor an unfair advantage over non-union companies and workers (On the Motion to Table (motion to table Kennedy Amendment No. 4031 to S.Amdt. 4000 to S.Con.Res. 57), Senate Bill Clerk, Vote Number: 134, U.S. Senate, 5/22/1996)
This Won’t Play Well In South Carolina | RedState
Big republican issue Sandorum oppossed.
Posted by Erick Erickson (Diary)
Wednesday, January 4th at 10:43PM EST
128 Comments
Rick Santorum has some pent up issues with Jim DeMint.
Just a few weeks before DeMint stood for re-election on South Carolinas ballot, Rick Santorum showed up in DeMints neighborood to tell everyone Jim DeMint was wrong on earmarks. Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania said the Constitution gives Congress control of the purse strings and that he supported earmarks for port deepening while a senator the opposite of the position that DeMint is taking. But former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich of Georgia said DeMint has shown moral courage in refusing to support any earmarks, including one that the State Ports Authority says is needed to study the deepening of Charleston Harbor.
Santorum went on John King USA on CNN tonight and again defended earmarks claiming Jim DeMint did it too without acknowledging DeMint repented and has since led the fight against earmarks. When asked about what he may or may not have said about black welfare recipients, Santorum defended himself by claiming he got earmarks for a black community in Pennsylvania.
Get ready for conservatives to have to refight this critical fight against the gateway drug to big government spending.
Its not just Rick Santorum knocking Jim DeMint (!!!) when not hiding behind DeMint to claim tea party bona fides, Santorum is also going to have trouble in South Carolina because of his voting record. He opposed National Right to Work legislation.
In the 104th Congress Sen. Santorum joined all Democrats and a minority of Republicans in voting to filibuster the bill S. 1788, the National Right to Work Act of 1995. (On the Cloture Motion (motion to invoke cloture on motion to proceed to consider S.1788), Senate Bill Clerk, Vote Number: 188, U.S. Senate, 7/10/1996)
During that same congressional session, Santorum also voted to retain the 1930s-era Davis-Bacon Act that forces taxpayers to pay union wages in government-funded construction and gives Big Labor an unfair advantage over non-union companies and workers (On the Motion to Table (motion to table Kennedy Amendment No. 4031 to S.Amdt. 4000 to S.Con.Res. 57), Senate Bill Clerk, Vote Number: 134, U.S. Senate, 5/22/1996)
This Won’t Play Well In South Carolina | RedState
Big republican issue Sandorum oppossed.