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IF I posted anything erroneous on Santorum..mea culpa. I did post a lot of info on his voting record that is straight from the legislation he voted yea and nay on such as his vote for Sotomyer for the circuit court during the Clinton presidency and will repost it. I too am fed UP and sick of the lies posted about Newt over and over and especially on those professing to be christians that judge him on the life he is living now.
Santorum did vote to raise the debt ceiling and he did vote to fund the National Endowment for the Arts and to INCREASE funding on it. He also voted for govt regulations of wages and so much more that are true.
IF you do not like my posts..don’t read them.

Santorum was of the old school, who believed that Presidents should get their nominees, except for Supreme Court nominees. That used to be how things went, if the home-state senators approved and the judges weren't obviously corrupt, they would get consent.

Santorum is a lawyer, and I think that might make him less critical about judges; certainly though in the 90s things hadn't deteriorated to the point we are today.

Santorum voted against the bills that raised spending, and he voted YES to pay the debt we accrued through that spending. I know that nowadays people think that not raising the debt ceiling is a fiscally responsible thing -- but seriously, the fiscally responsible thing is to not vote to spend the money, not to vote to not pay the credit card bill.

Things have gotten so bad that some now think that holding the debt ceiling is the only way we can stop spending. But it isn't fiscally responsible, it's a desperation move, maybe necessary, but it is the end result of the failure of our elected representatives, and a profound failure to live up to our obligations.

I'll have to read your posts, to check links and find out if what you are saying is true or not. That is the sad fact -- I'd love to ignore your posts, but they might be spreading lies, and I can't at this moment trust that you are doing a good job of research.

I'm not voting against a good conservative because he didn't vote no on a multi-billion-dollar appropriations bill because of a few extra million of NEA spending. Every republican budget that had NEA spending had the votes of the republicans.

I've got a question, which I don't know the answer to. Did Newt Gingrich's congress ever send the appropriations bill to the president that had no NEA spending in it? Did we ever actually pass such an appropriations, so Santorum could vote yes on it?