Don't just think of Santorum as a frothy anti-abortion, anti-contraception, anti-sex religious bigot

[kpete]

There was the $500,000 loan he got from a private bank that did not lend to members of the public. And then there was the multi-billion dollar handout to some of his friends that he slipped into the Katrina disaster relief bill.



Buried in the huge budget-reconciliation bill, on which House and Senate conferees are putting the final touches right now, are a few paragraphs that accomplish an extraordinary feat. They roll back the price of a barrel of crude oil to what it sold for two years ago. They create this pretend price for the benefit of a small group of the politically well connected. You still won't be able to buy gasoline for $1.73 per gal. as you did then, instead of today's $2.28. You still won't be able to buy home heating oil for $1.60 per gal., in place of today's $2.39. But a select group of investors and companies will walk away with billions of dollars in tax subsidies, not from oil but from the marketing of a dubious concoction of synthetic fuel produced from coal and dependent on government tax credits tied to the price of oil.

more:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1167738-4,00.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/santorum-surge-brings-ethics-questions/story?id=15287424#.Twt3xaVAY1K
http://www.americablog.com/2012/01/santorums-corruption-problem.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Americablog+%28AMERICAblog%29