So long Santorum

Well, we don't have Rick Santorum to kick around anymore. And vice-versa.

As the Philadelphia Inquirer reported, not surprisingly, Santorum managed to get a few last kicks as he left the Senate floor, Rick takes parting shots:

In a departing speech yesterday on an empty Senate floor, Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum warned of the growing threat of what he calls "Islamic fascism."

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As he did in his campaign in a series of speeches throughout Pennsylvania, Santorum referred yesterday to what he said were multiple forces trying to undermine the United States as the "gathering storm" — a phrase that is also the title of Winston Churchill's memoir about the causes of World War II.

Wonkette offers a fond farewell, in A Gracious Good-bye: Rick Santorum's Last Insane Senate Speech:

Like Peggy Noonan and several Pennsylvanians, we’re sorry to see Rick Santorum leave the Senate. (He’ll be back in town in a few weeks, as a lobbyist for Jesus, Inc.) Today he delivered his final piece of … oratory, yes, that’s what they call it. Let’s take a quick trip to Fearville, where Rick’s actually killing terrorists in Yemen or something, and Exxon’s directors want to kill us out of pure hate:

* “I will do my best after I leave this place to continue to confront these enemies and to give the United States the opportunity to succeed in this war.”
* It is lunacy, it is suicidal to continue to allow the energy markets at the levels they are now given the fact that a vast majority of those energy dollars are going to people who want to kill us and destroy everything we believe in.”

But John Morgan of The Pennsylvania Progressive read my thoughts, stealing my words in Santorum's Swan Song:

Isn't that a great headline? "Santorum's Swan Song." Senator Man on Dog is no longer a United States Senator. The clock ran out on his legislative career with the end of this session. The bigot is finally out of public service, at least for now. Who am I going to kick around now? Where will I ever find a whipping boy the likes of Rick Santorum to provide fodder for the blog?

I'll survive somehow. The Republican Party seems gifted in providing new material....

I'll survive because getting rid of Rick Santorum was one of my life goals. He was right at the top of my list of public officials I most wanted to be rid of. . . . We won and yesterday Tricky Ricky took to the Senate floor for his farewell address.

He railed on for an hour warning the country, yet again, about the dire threat from "Islamic Fascism." Often chided for being one of the dumbest members of that august body this line of rhetoric displayed his intellectual shortcomings for all to see. There is no threat from "Islamic Fascism" because that's an impossibility. See fascism is the melding together of business and government. It means the corporations take control of government and use an intense sense of nationalism to impose their will.

A religion is neither a business nor a government. Islamic fundamentalism is the threat and it has nothing in common with fascism other than both are authoritarian.

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Maybe my favorite whipping boy will continue writing books about how he took their dead fetus home to show his kids or go onto the speaking circuit. I need him to keep mouthing off with these empty platitudes and ridiculous comments so I have something interesting to write about. Please Rick please, don't leave the public sector altogether. Bloggers everywhere have grown dependent on your warped mind for material.

My bet is that he'll be a lobbyist for Jesus, Inc., earning a big salary from the Evangelical Christians who can't spare a dime for the poor, but can spend it freely on bestowing riches on the Santorums of the world.

Tags: Pennsylvania, Politics, Santorum