Rick Santorum

Who? Me?

Ok, ok, you are like who the fuck is that guy? At least most of you are, because you don't spend your every waking moment with news blogs on your screen, NPR in your ear or PBS on your TVs. But this sexy hunk'o'man is Rick Santorum, former Senator from Pennsylvania and a giant douche bag.

So, Barack Obama and our military went straight gangster on Osama Bin Laden and that pissed the Republicans off. Since, you know, their last President started all those wars and pledged to find Osama, but then got bored and declared victory without actually finding him. The Republicans had to find something, anything, to take some small piece of this victory. Know what they picked?

You guessed it - TORTURE!

The idea being-since they defended torture and torture led to the discovery of Osama Bin Laden, everyone should be patting them on the back. The problem? Torture had nothing to do with it. Don't believe me? Leon Panetta, CIA Director:

 “In the end, no detainee in CIA custody revealed the facilitator/courier’s full true name or specific whereabouts. This information was discovered through other intelligence means.”

Anyway, what does that have to do with Rick? Rick Santorum is thinking of running for President on the GOP ticket (isn't everyone?). In a radio interview, he was asked to respond to the fact that John McCain was running around telling anyone who would listen that finding Osama had nothing to do with torture. Here's what Rick said:

I don’t, everything I’ve read shows that we would not have gotten this information as to who this man was if it had not been gotten information from people who were subject to enhanced interrogation. And so this idea that we didn’t ask that question while Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was being waterboarded, he doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works. I mean, you break somebody, and after they’re broken, they become cooperative. And that’s when we got this information. And one thing led to another, and led to another, and that’s how we ended up with bin Laden.

 In case you missed that there, this douche just told John McCain, a former POW who was tortured, that he doesn't understand how torture works. That is.....fucked. John McCain isn't my favorite person in the world (for his politics, I still totally want him to be my Grandpa), but the man endured a lot of pain while serving our country. To imply that someone who has experienced it, doesn't get how it works is the height of arrogance.

He needs to be waterboarded, just for being a douche bag.