Murdoch and Aisles want the Santorum to go away.

So charity only applies if one deems it affordable. Interesting.
To whom much is given, only what they feel like giving is expected.

And yet, even with all that expensive medical care, he still gave more to charity than Mr. and Dr. Biden (1.4%). But I haven’t seen that made fun of here.
I wonder why?
Oh yes, as always IOKIYAD.

Santorum has made an @ss of himself far above our poor power to add or detract.

I just want to know why Rick Santorum feels that he has the right to interfere in God’s will by providing medical intervention for his daughter.

He should use prayer like he suggests women utilize for their medical reproductive needs.

Good morning, pups. Today we’ve got Mr. Keller and Prof. Krugman. Poor Mr. Keller must have had to take the subway, because he’s got bees in his bonnet about New York City’s transportation system. He wants us to “Meet Sam Schwartz” who has has ideas, lots of them, about how to make sense out of the chaos that is New York’s transportation system. One of those ideas is to “make the highways more bearable — in part so trucks will use them and avoid the populous business districts.” I left a comment (which may or may not be published) inquiring how those businesses will handle deliveries and pick-ups without trucks. I wonder where the groceries I used to buy at the Food Emporium on Madison Avenue came from… Prof. Krugman, in “States of Depression,” says cuts at the local and state levels are hobbling the recovery.

Here they are.

The coffee, tea and hot chocolate are ready, and the biscuits are out of the oven. I had arranged to take today off, and as soon as I did my dentist’s office called saying he had to reschedule my Thursday appointment to this morning… Oh well, at least it’s early so I’ll have most of the day. Have a great one.

Please don’t feed it. All it does is gibber and fling poo.

Awwwwww, I wanna watch him twist himself into pretzels explaining how pregnancy is a God given medical condition that must not be thwarted but the genetic disorder that Santorum’s daughter suffers from is not God will but an Almighty oopsie that it is totally okay to treat because God didn’t really know or mean to give a child a genetic anomoly.

Sorry. My self discipline’s at low ebb this early.

Doctors never used to call you to reschedule. Mrs. Pillow says hers does it all the time. Myself, I only go to seek medical care from Dr. My T. Favog when I need it in the worst possible way. And that’s usually how I get it. But he doesn’t reschedule me, I guess because I always keep his sacrifice bowl full.

But if it gets a really bad sprain it’ll go to the doctor and our insurance rates will rise…

I hesitate to ask what your medical person’s specialty is, to say nothing of the fees… But he certainly looks professional, in a looming sort of way.

But she’s — it’s an additional expense and we have round the clock care for it….

They have round the clock care for “it“? “It” being his ill daughter? Nice Frothy.

He probably meant it- the medical condition, not it his child.

I’m not a Santorum fan by any stretch but I don’t think he sees his daughter as an impersonal object. It’s the rest of us he could care less about. We should make rapenade or put aspirin between our knees because God totally wants us to live with the conseqeuences of government making those medical condition decisions for us.

“It” is the disability.
Not only are you people jerks, but now I can see you’re just gratuitously mean.
But as always, IOKIYAD.

Good morning all,

Another sunday morning christian. You know to home school his kids in Virginia, when he was a PA Senator, he “swore’ that his little rental in Pa was his primary residence that made him a Pa citizen, therefore we little people had to foot an $83,000 per year Cyber school bill to “home school” his children.

Rumor has it someone once said if 10% for God and 90% for other costs works he trusted God to sustain him if he gave 90% and keep 10% – JC Penny. ricky is a CINO he sure ain’t a RINO.

Thank you for explaining that to me. Now if only you were in my area to explain doorknobs and stop signs….

Please ignore and scroll past anyone who addresses the commentators on this site as “you people”

Careful! Gonna break your pearls clutching at them like that.

ABCRS certified for his astounding skill in billing.

r. But she’s — it’s

That’s his quote , that’s where he defined her as” it “otherwise there is no need for the IT’S in the sentence.

But she’s an additional expense and we have round the clock care for her and our insurance company doesn’t cover it, so I pay for it, would be how most people would state that statement.

Jeez, you think we’re still thinking you and your paymasters can be reasoned with. Nope. You’re all criminally insane.

Go wit Rush.

Go wit Rush.

You know what’s mean is insisting that a twelve year old be forced to compete with a fetus for her nutrients and then forcing her to give birth because allowing her to have an abortion would offend the sensibilities of the pious gentlemen in robes that spend their days playing hide the pedophiliac.

Charles P. Pierce nails it by calling Santorum “a colossal dick.”

Flag him and flag every post you find offensive. Eventually the board admins will start paying attention.

What’s that high pitched whine I’m hearing this morning?

The comments of the pasty-faced whiz bang don’t really merit comment. However he does emulate a number of “p” words: petulant, pedantic, pathetic, peculiar, presumptuous, pernicious, perplexing, populistic,portentious, pudgy…but not presidential.

I’m not gonna fling poo at Frothy for this. Special needs kids ARE expensive and you gotta look out for your family.

Still, he’s not the only person with a special needs kid. It would be nice if the rest of us could afford it. But most of us don’t make $1M/year.

If we had a real democrat fighting him, this would be a good time to bring up national health care.

Boxturtle (If…)

He will serve no whine before its time.

Boy, do they. But God isn’t done having fun with his Clown Car Reality Show.

Boxturtle (Think Frothy would take a cash offer to go away?)

Real democrat?

I heard those went extinct.

No, not yet. There’s a protected habitat in Berkley and another one here in Yellow Springs Oh.

Boxturtle (but if you’re looking for one around Washington DC…)

That’ll stop all development! keep it under your hat.

You have to determine if one is more a person than the other I guess.

http://jme.bmj.com/content/early/2012/02/22/medethics-2011-100411.full.pdf+html

Or may be a fancy job with a big title.

The Bidens aren’t professional Christianists like the Sanctorums.

Sorry Goop, if you’re pimping morals and soundbite piety, your collars and cuffs had better match.

Soo true. I will be interested to see what trash big-mouth Rush sends forth today…Foot in mouth, for sure.

Superb Krugman summary of the way government cuts on all levels are harming the “recovery”, and putting its continuance in question. It is ironic, though, that while Krugman laments the amnesia toward Keynesian stimulus economics, he himself (along with the entire Western economic establishment) is amnesiac toward the earlier tradition of the classical economists, including Marx.

In defense of the Bidens and of little Ricky–I make some claimable charitable contributions but don’t deduct them on my tax return because they’re negligible. Moreover, because our system of public welfare is so awful, and I have family members and friends who are unemployed/broke/weighed down by bills etc., etc.–I send people money when they need it. Due to the evil economic conditions, that tends to be more than in years past. None of this is tax-deductible, yet it’s a significant chunk of my income. I remember when I didn’t have anything and people helped me, and I try to return the favor as best I can. I’m probably killing my retirement, but, dammit, people need the money now.

When Biden makes a career of being a public Christian like Ricky, who is constantly disparaging the morality and virtue of everyone who doesn’t bang a Bible fifty times a day, then I’ll ride his ass for not being more charitable. Ricky is so damned pious he should be wearing a “God’s Chosen One” t-shirt, but the millionaire fukcwad can’t give more than a piittance of his income to charity? It’s called hypocrisy, Shooter – look it up, it’s a conservative specialty.

I agree that the Bidens should have given more — I assume they can well afford it — but I don’t like “republicans” OR “democrats.” They’re all professional liars in collusion to rob us for the benefit of their <1% string-pullers and palm-greasers.

I doubt Krugs is ignorant of the classical economists like Marx, et al. He probably believes that the best solutions to fixing the economy are all Keynesian at this time. Besides, if the guy goes full-on Hegalian dialectic with a “Workers of the World Unite” theme, the Times kicks him off the Op-Ed page and then no reason exists to ever read the Grey Lady again.