A short personal note to Rick Santorum

[WilliamPitt]

In Keene today, Rick Santorum told the mother of a cancer patient that people with pre-existing conditions should pay more for health care because they made "poor health choices."

Santorum To Mother Of Cancer Survivor: Sick To Blame For Pre-Existing Conditions, Should Be Charged More
http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/01/06/399357/santorum-to-mother-of-cancer-survivor-sick-are-to-blame-for-their-pre-existing-conditions-insurers-should-charge-them-more/

As the husband of a woman with MS, I'd like to ask Rick what poor choices my wife made that earned her this affliction.

You stinking bag of fuck.

Say hello to Huck, fuck, cuz you're singing the same tune. From the Will Pitt archives:

Sick Bastards
By William Rivers Pitt

22 September 2010

http://archive.truthout.org/sick-bastards63456

[xchrom]

1. du rec. nt

[roguevalley]

57. Santorum's daughter is deathly ill and one died before birth.

Maybe he needs to check himself out. WHich I am sure he does. Every night. With a mirror.

You can't talk about other men's genitals 24/7 for 30 years without hiding something.

[Raven]

2. Hi Will. This man is really dangerous. He's

a supporter of Opus Dei which is all I need to know.

Also, I believe Mitt Romney's wife has MS. Perhaps this is why one of the few good things he's done in his life is his Mass Healthcare system.

[comipinko]

3. But , Will, how do you really feel?

I feel you're holding back.

[MarianJack]

4. little ricky santorum=

Total. Little. Shit!

BTW Will, my best wishes for your wife and you!

PEACE!

[WilliamPitt]

12. Thanks!

[roguevalley]

58. same here. there are health issues in our family among our little ones that were

no one's fault. This man is scum.

[TwilightGardener]

5. I do regret that time I decided to grow some baseball-sized fibroid tumors in

my uterus. It was fun for a while, but I knew that sort of behavior would catch up with me.

[WilliamPitt]

6. I read the Bible.

Having a uterus makes you culpable for everything.

(Eve was framed)

[October]

72. Favorite.

Best wishes to you and your wife and family.

For our family, we are grateful that the so-called "Obamacare" allows for our 21-year-old daughter to remain covered under our policy. She attends college part-time, and for that reason was excluded. Not any more!

Also, her part-time job offers no healthcare plan, which is typical.

No one cared before that her reasons for doing all of this "part-time" work is because she is also pursuing a career in ballet
-- which requires amazing dedication, focus, strength and grace 24/7, 365 at hours a day.

I've been upset with Obama for a number of things, but I am grateful that our daughter has healthcare.

[Raven]

7. Same with me...where did we go wrong? n/t

[comipinko]

9. Did you do that JUST to screw your insurer? Or was there another motive , as well?

[TwilightGardener]

10. To see how much blood I could lose and still live? LOL.

[WilliamPitt]

11. See?

It's these dangerous, irresponsible, liberal-enabled lifestyles that are causing high taxes and health care premiums. You are the Caddilac-Driving Welfare Queen of uterine fibroids.

RON PAUL

*punches self in face*

[TwilightGardener]

16. Yep--scammed the insurance system for three days in the hospital and a nice

rearrangement of my innards. Totally worth it!

[WilliamPitt]

25. They fed you, right?

Stop complaining. You're lucky we don't treat you like a burned-down house.

*punching self in face again*

[comipinko]

15. well, how much?

[TwilightGardener]

18. Quite a bit, actually!

You'd be surprised.

[comipinko]

19. No, former EMT

Most folks would be surprised how much blood one can lose, and how even a pint of blood looks like a ton when in a puddle on the floor. (sorry for the nasty visual)

[TwilightGardener]

29. Yeah--there's also a big difference between chronic and gradual blood loss/anemia

in which one's body develops some compensations, and suddenly being down a few quarts and losing all that fluid volume and oxygen-carrying capacity at once. Same lab numbers, very different possible effects (feeling like boiled crap vs. MI/shock).

[Taverner]

8. Now now now we can't be mean to him - we all have to play nice

Dontchya know his wife lost a BABY once! A BABY!!!!!

What kind of sick, demented, baby killing babyhater are you?????


I WANT MY MOMMY!!! WAHHHH

[Iggo]

23. *cough*cough*abortion*cough*cough

[Taverner]

27. I would say something to that effect

Except people here would feel sorry for poor widdle Santorum and his widdle wifey....

[Iggo]

32. And, in fact, I do feel bad for them...to a point.

It's my understanding they had to abort the fetus to save the mom. That's a tough thing right there.

But since they're against anyone else's right to do the same thing, it just looks like a really morbid case of "I got mine."

[Taverner]

34. I don't feel any sympathy for them

Now, if they didn't trot out their dead kid to write a book for political gains ("Letters to Gabriel&quot maybe I'd shed a tear.

[Iggo]

42. Oh wow! Serious?

Those fucking ghouls!

[hamsterjill]

53. I don't feel any sympathy for them either.

If it's one thing that the Republicans have taught me, and taught me well, it is that the Democrats have to be willing to fight as dirty as the Republicans do in order to win.

Whenever a political candidate brings a personal issue to a public venue, then that issue becomes a public issue. The Santorums have publicly talked about this very private issue, so they must be trying to use it for political gain; therefore, it becomes political fodder.

[roguevalley]

60. I wonder if they investigated both of them for murder like they do in Kansas during

abort-- I mean miscarriages? They must think they will be exempt.

[SammyWinstonJack]

13. I thought he (santorum) was the Jesus Candidate.

That isn't very Jesus-like.


Ya know, I don't understand how ordinary people can listen to these sick a$$hole$ telling them if they get sick and can't afford care - tough shit - all the while, knowing these sick a$$hole$ have access to affordable health care insurance, and yet STILL support and vote these over priviledged bastards.

[Whisp]

21. I think Sicktorum is going after that guilt...

that you aren't praying hard enough or giving enough money to the church if bad things happen to you.

[SammyWinstonJack]

30. Well since I am a godless heathen, I don't understand that guilt trip praying/tithing thing.

I thought there was something about charity begins at home?

And why does god need money from mere mortals, anyway.

Do these people ask themselves that as they are handing over their hard earned dollars to the pastor of some mega church?

That Hagee fellow who has a mega church in my city, sure lives high off the hog, while telling others they shouldn't.

Guess it's that ' do as I say, not as I do' thing, eh?


Hypocrites, all of them.

[Whisp]

33. agreed. it's really sad the kind of snake oil these creeps can sell

to the vulnerable. good example of how wrong 'let the market decide' thinking is.

[SammyWinstonJack]

47. It is sad and I know people who tithe who can't afford too but they think it will come back to

them threefold or something like that. I just don't understand it at all.

[Taverner]

36. Hey! God is a single father, always low on money, and has trouble communicating...

[Whisp]

37. can't resist posting George Carlin on God and Money

not to offend any Christians here but to show what the Sicktorums are really selling.

[SammyWinstonJack]

52. Joe Pesci...

[HangOnKids]

59. Laughing My Ass off

George Carlin is Gawd!

[JNelson6563]

68. It's hilarious to know his views and then

happen upon him in Dogma:

Many lolz.

Julie

[SammyWinstonJack]

48. hehehe

[Erose999]

14. I feel sorry for his children that lived. Their father is an embarrassment.

[PA Democrat]

17. Apparently there is no limit to how low this piece of human excrement will stoop

to serve his corporate masters.

Thanks for posting this Will. I saw a clip of this interview yesterday and have been searching the web for it.

[Whisp]

20. only an ignorant souless beast would say something like that.

this Santorum guy is really bugging my ass. I mean Newt and the rest ain't no picnic to be sure but Santorum is a special kind of filth.

[Blue Owl]

22. OMG

How in fuck's name do motherfucking idiots like this "rise to the top"???

[tallahasseedem]

24. Yes, all of the cancer patients that I deal with...

day in and day out had it coming.

I really hate this guy.

[Generic Other]

26. Santorum's disabled child is to blame for its pre-existing condition

Sperm should have run in the opposite direction to avoid egg. Fact that it didn't, and the parents decided to go forward with the pregnancy clearly indicates they knew of the pre-existing condition and ignored the knowledge. THUS, No health care. Case closed.

What morans.

Like you Will, when these matters hit home, when these politicians are attacking our own, I get mad. I feel rage. This becomes my default setting towards these unfeeling monsters.
Good for you to come out swinging in defense of your loved ones!

[MoonRiver]

28. K&R,

as a cancer survivor. POS Rethugs!

[Zenlitened]

31. Rick Santorum is morally depraved. That is a fact. -nt

[Erose999]

35. He really is a frosted turd, isn't he?

[cyberswede]

38. Off topic, but...

I thought you might be interested.

http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2011/November/111411MS_study.html

UI researchers develop innovative protocol of treatment for MS patients

University of Iowa researchers, using an innovative therapy involving intensive nutrition, progressive exercise, and neuromuscular stimulation, have observed evidence of improvement in patients with secondary progressive multiple sclerosis (SPMS).

This treatment approach, described as radical by the researchers, was selected as a "Hot Topic" at the Neuroscience 2011 annual meeting, presented by the Society for Neuroscience and held this week in Washington, D.C. Babita Bisht (photo, right), a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Health and Human Physiology in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, is the first study author and presented the research Sunday afternoon at the meeting.

Terry Wahls, a clinical professor of internal medicine at the UI Carver College of Medicine and the Iowa City VA Medical Center, is the senior study author and living proof of the effectiveness of this treatment plan. Wahls was diagnosed with SPMS in 2003 and soon became dependent upon a tilt-recline wheelchair. After developing and using this protocol, she is now able to walk through the hospital and commute to work by bicycle.

More: http://www.terrywahls.com/

BTW - Dr. Wahls is the mother of Zach Wahls, the college student who went viral on YouTube defending his two moms to the Iowa Legislature.

[WilliamPitt]

39. Thanks!

[wandy]

40. Are you begining to see why I hope Santorum wins the nomination?

The more he stands on his soapbox and shills for his corprate masters. The more he stands at the paupet and brags the wonders of his vengfull cloud being. The more he preaches that his and only his is the way to the light.
The more easely it can be seen what a shallow, hollow, pathetic little man Santorum is.
A man who doubts his own convictions to a point that he must accept the convictions of his masters.
A simp who doubts his fellow man.
A pathetic smoke wisp doubting even his own masculinety.
A frightened child, cowering in a corner awaiting the wrath of his god simpley because he allowed his own wife to live.
Easly seen as a circus parson, takeing the center ring only to fill his pockets and hide his own inadquities.

He convinces me that I am not a true christan; for I can not pity him.

[WilliamPitt]

41. Beginning?

I'm right there with you.

[roguevalley]

63. apparently according to a new count he won Iowa. :)

[kentuck]

43. That is some low-life shit...

Cold-hearted bastards.

[justiceischeap]

44. What's scary about this is -- People actually support his views

that is the scariest part. It's not what he says, cause he says some crazy ass things, always has, always will (I think psych eval is in order for him) but people who claim they'd vote for this clown with all the shit that spews from him. They are the real problem.

[WilliamPitt]

45. Some people think eugenics is a good idea.

Some people like Christmas music.

There's no accounting for taste.

[ProfessorGAC]

46. Your Wife Has MS?

I did not know that. I've been likewise afflicted since 1993. Hope she is doing well and tell her to hang in there.
GAC

[WilliamPitt]

50. Thanks.

And the same to you.

[WI_DEM]

49. If that doesn't make his support collapse I don't know what will, but then of course

we are dealing with the GOP base who probably agree with him--or at least 80% of them probably do.

[joeybee12]

51. He's a stinking bag of fuck alright...knr

[hifiguy]

54. Santorum is a moral and intellectual bankrupt,

an ambulatory turd that fouls the earth with his every utterance. He deserves every bit of whatever misery he has experienced or will experience in his life. He is an evil waste of perfectly good oxygen.

[wellstone dem]

55. Yep, My 11 year old nephew who got diagnosed with juvenile diabetes

it's his fault. Or his parents, even though none of their older children, aunts, uncles, parents, siblings, nieces or nephews had juvenile diabetes. He and they should have known better.


First post on the new DU...I hate how these people talk and believe and do.

[WilliamPitt]

56. Shame on him

[Bruce Wayne]

61. People who think like this should be punished. Hunted down and punished.

[11 Bravo]

62. Well fucking said, my friend! Having been long aware ...

of your wife's courageous battle; I will tell you that when I read Santorum's comments, my thoughts eventually turned to you. I initially considered my own cancer-surving ass (14 years and counting), and wanted to lash back at Ricky. But the simple fact is, while I may be a wordy sonofabitch, I am no William Rivers Fucking Pitt. Your heart, soul, and erudition made our point better than I could have hoped to do. (Although, as a former combat infantryman, I think you could have used a few more "fucks".)
In any case, thanks, Will. And please, keep on doing what you do.

[WilliamPitt]

65. Thank you, old friend.

[powergirl]

64. Santorum is a piece of garbage

And he will wrap himself in the banner of religion while demonizing those who need healthcare. Nice Christian values.

[Bluenorthwest]

66. Santorum is always first place out of a tight field of GOP hate mongers

Long he has ridden high upon my shit list.

[Quantess]

67. Santorum is the most loathsome, the most hate-able republican candidate!

They are all really awful, but Rick Santorum makes me angry. Objectively on paper, they all measure up to be about equally terrible. But Santorum has a little extra-something of vile.

He deeply offends me.

[JNelson6563]

69. Hateful & merciless.

I am stunned anyone would say this, much less someone aspiring to be our President. Just stunned.

Julie

[marasinghe]

70. sorry to hear of your wife's illness, William; wish her & you ~ the Best.

on another note: shit-spawn like Rick 'Torum, Huckster-b & the rest of the effluvia that make up the current population of the anal orifice that is the GOP -- is the reason that revolution was invented by desperate beings, trying to sustain their families. hopefully, you & i will get to see the day when Nature flushes this effluvia down the black hole they belong in.

[sellitman]

71. My son's two Brain Tumors could of been avoided if

If he wasn't born.

Poor choices? I thought they are for Life?

Maybe only as a Zygote?

[tomp]

73. the good news is:

....if that kind of excremental verbiage gets any publicity he will never get elected anywhere.

p.s.: "stinking bag of fuck"....especially well put.

[tpsbmam]

74. This fellow MSer agrees and I'm happy to be the 100th rec!

And yeah, go fuck yourself Rick. I had no fucking choice to make when it came to getting MS. You did, however, have a choice to be a decent human being or a stupid fucking moronic, bigoted, total asshole. Too bad you chose the latter.