He's a Sweetie

Who knew?

After all things I've said about him over the years, see e.g. So long Santorum, who would have guessed that former PA Senator Rick Santorum really was such a sweetie?

The Wall Street Journal, in In New Senate, The 'Candy Desk' Gets a Kiss-Off, reports the news:

With Democrats back in control of Congress for the first time in years, much is changing in the nation's capital, including a longtime tradition in the U.S. Senate: the "candy desk."

For a decade until his defeat last year, Sen. Rick Santorum, a Pennsylvania Republican, stocked the desk with donations from home-state candy makers including Hershey Co. and Just Born Inc., maker of Hot Tamales and Peanut Chews.

With Mr. Santorum gone, the desk, which is dipped into by many members, has been turned over to Sen. Craig Thomas, a Republican from Wyoming. But his state is better known for bison than bonbons -- and that's a big problem.

So what's wrong with the new PA Senator Bob Casey picking up the slack with those kisses?

As it happens, relying on Pennsylvania wasn't an option. Mr. Santorum's successor, Bob Casey, is a Democrat, and the candy desk has by tradition always been located on the Republican side of the Senate chamber, in a heavily trafficked area near the exit to the elevators. The state's other senator, Arlen Specter, a Republican, already has a choice seat toward the front.

I guess they can just kiss that goodbye . . .

(Via Wonkette)

Tags: Pennsylvania, Santorum