Bush & Company

Reactionary Roman Catholic Rick Santorum wears his intolerance like a badge of honor, clinging to unrealistic tenets of his faith which many Catholics have rejected due to the pressures and complexities of modern life.

Young voters in the main don't buy his diatribes against gay marriage, birth control, and isses like "Obamacare"---
realizing the unreliability of church, family, friends and other helpful volunteers saving the day in times of critical need, like the townsfolk of IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. Likely disdaining entitlements as welfare, he nonetheless saw to it when in the Senate that Medicare benefits were sent to Puerto Rico from United Health Services, his cut amounting to $400,000.

Once bearing the sobriquet "Senator Slash," the former lawmaker, believer in limited government and the radical Ryan plan, who savaged Democratic foes with the best of them, is after all, just one more noncompassionate political hypocrite who may let up on his chief nomination rival, frontrunner Mitt Romney, with an eye to a cabinet appointment by the possible next president of the United States.

Unlike the Rickster's long parade
Of helpers rushing to your aid,
There are things government must do
Even when some others pitch in, too,

As Rick can't but be well aware---
And Puerto Rico will admit---
In profiting more than a bit
From sending them our Medicare.

Another D C hypocrite
May pander to a winning Mitt,
Who might, once his course has been set,
Think Rick's fit for his cabinet.