Secondly, there's nothing "bullyish" about Santorum's tactics here. Advocating against something like this doesn't make him a bully just because high profile groups/individuals with disabilities were for it. It doesn't make him an enemy of the disabilities community. This wasn't done because he doesn't give a damn about that community. He simply has a different take on how said community would be best served.
You don't like him. Get over it. That's all this is with you. I've never once stated that Santorum isn't an in-your-face figure. I know he is. I've acknowledged as much. I admire that he's no-nonsense and doesn't back down. That said, it's totally irrelevant here. It's just another attempt at tearing down someone you loathe in a very unfair manner. Own that, brittain. Embrace it. And while we're on that, instead of going off on a tangent about....uh...me...why don't you answer the question I posed earlier; the question that several here avoided but eventually answered: does Santorum hate the disabled? Does he hate his daughter? Is he throwing her to the wolves? Put up or shut up, brittain. I'd prefer the latter but it would be nice if you actually practiced what you preached and owned up to smash mouth tactics instead of whining about others.
The only people Rick Santorum and others like him give a damn about are his own family and his little clique of like-minded people, none of whom are the sort of people who have ever depended on binding legislation or non-binding resolutions to protect their rights. Bella Santorum will never have to worry about whether accommodations for people like her are codified into law or not. Her family is wealthy and she will always be able to afford whatever care she needs.
What's sad is that Rick Santorum thinks other disabled children don't deserve the same opportunities for proper care that he can pay for his own daughter to have. He thinks he's some sort of saint because he and his wife didn't terminate their pregnancy when they found out it would result in a severely disabled child. That's not such a big sacrifice to make when you have no problem at all paying for her care. If I had a disabled child, my finances would be severely strained and I would probably have to rely on some sort of government subsidy to ensure they were cared for - the sort of subsidy that someone like Rick Santorum would be fighting tooth and nail to get rid of. And he'd have the nerve to act like he was somehow defending families by doing so.
