Santorum's Hypocrisy Highlighted by Daughter's Illness

[GamerGal]

http://news.yahoo.com/santorums-hypo...XN0Aw--;_ylv=3

Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum suspended his bid for the GOP nod to run against Barack Obama when his daughter, Bella Santorum, was hospitalized, according to the Associated Press. Bella suffers from Trisomy 18, a rare genetic disorder in which a baby has some or all of an extra chromosome. While it is always tragic for a parent to face losing a child, the situation highlights a political issue: Santorum's hypocrisy on health care, abortion and embryonic stem cell research.

Santorum's campaign website discusses his views on these matters. He is emphatically against a woman's right to control her own body in reproductive matters and is adamantly opposed to embryonic stem cell research. He is against a single-payer national health care system provided to all citizens. He opposes the first two on religious grounds on the third for reasons of political dogma.

As to abortion, Santorum flip-flops on his opposition, according to a Care2.com report. It's easy for him to rail against abortion when such ranting might win him votes.

It's also easier for him to oppose it because he has the best health care in America available to him and his family -- provided at taxpayer expense, no less. He never had to consider whether care for a terminally ill child would destroy his family financially.


Unless the U.S. enacts a national health care plan most families will never be able to afford the care needed for a child with Trisomy 18. Santorum's family will never lack for health care or face crippling medical debt -- but as far as he's concerned it's fine for your family to have those problems.

A man who has no problem killing your children of course uses Tax Paid For Healthcare for his. Amazing how big of hypocrits Republicans can be.

[pico]

It isn't confined to the republican party. Just look at Obama's vacations every year when he calls for everyone else to cut back. All politicians are considered assholes until they prove themselves something else.

[GamerGal]

Obama's vacations? He has taken less than a third that Bush took. So he is clearly cutting back. Also the Republicans set the schedule in the House and...


This is by August 30th of the third year



The white parts are days off, set by the GOP.


At least you didn't try the "How dare you attack his daughter!" When I'm clearly attacking a man who has called texpayer healthcare communism then goes and uses it.

[Reef Badlaw]

I'm not paying for Santorum's daughter. I don't see the hypocrisy. Does Yahoo have proof that embyronic stem-cell research solves that particular problem?

[GamerGal]

Do you pay taxes? Then yes you are.

[Reef Badlaw]

Then why activate Obamacare? I'll be paying for her then too.

[GamerGal]

?? How does Obamacare make you pay for her? Obamacare had public option left off because of the people you voted for.

But this is a guy who has stated tax payer healthcare is the devil and communism and only terrorists support it. But then he uses it himself.

[Reef Badlaw]

The money goes into a pool. And the public option is not 'left off'. The Supreme Court is ruling on the legality of it.

The real hypocrisy are the thousands of waivers from Obamacare, granted by Secretary Sebilius. It's such a great system that all the unions are opting out of it. -And poor Nebraska, the li'l dears. Exempt from Obamacare 'n now utterly protected from the evil Keystone-pipeline.

[GamerGal]

Once again, stop watching Fox. There is NO PUBLIC OPTION BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS TOOK IT OUT!

[Reef Badlaw]

Once again, stop watching Fox. There is NO PUBLIC OPTION BECAUSE THE REPUBLICANS TOOK IT OUT!

Start watching Fox. 26 States' Attorneys General have sued the Federal Government... the public option is a violation of the US commerce clause.

[GamerGal]

Wow, again, there IS NO PUBLIC OPTION!
No Public Option in Obama Health Care Plan
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6231221.shtml

STOP WATCHING FOX THEY ARE LYING ABOUT IT!

Also, why shouldn't we have public healthcare? So kids can die from cancer but you feel better about it?

[Nu Kua]

Start watching Fox. 26 States' Attorneys General have sued the Federal Government... the public option is a violation of the US commerce clause.

Isn't the case going to the Supreme Court in June?

[Reef Badlaw]

Name one lie.... And I mean the literal interpretation of what a lie is.

[GamerGal]

There is no public option. Only people who watch Fox think there is. The Republicans took it out. STOP WATCHING FOX!

[GamerGal]

Here is a little help for those who don't watch Fox.

http://forums.armageddononline.org/t...ghlight=Health
http://forums.armageddononline.org/t...ghlight=Health

http://forums.armageddononline.org/t...ghlight=Health
http://forums.armageddononline.org/t...ghlight=Health
http://forums.armageddononline.org/t...ghlight=Health
http://forums.armageddononline.org/t...ghlight=Health

Also Fox has been BANNED in several nations because in other nations you must tell the truth. If you don't... now allowed on television there.

[GamerGal]

And a new one! He tells a woman with a sick child she should STFU about paying for medicine. Mind you he doesn't pay for any because he has Tax Payer Healthcare.

http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/...n-about-1-mill

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum told the mother of a child with a rare genetic disorder on Tuesday that she shouldn't have a problem paying $1 million a year for drugs because Apple's iPad can cost around $900.