He's just doing the bidding of his campaign cash contributors, wants to privatise the weather service.
Well, the forecasters were the only ones escaping blame so far.
This isn't a case of legitimate privatization. This is corrupt "crony 'capitalism'" of the sort that infested Russia after the fall of the USSR.
If the GOP can't find a decent candidate to take Santorum out in the primary, chalk it up as a lost Senate seat.