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" While I wasn&amp;#039;t looking, and in between bouts of sunbathing in the tropical climes, Rick Santorum was opening up another can of religio-comic whoop-ass in the presidential campaign. Now, he declared, was the time for a serious national campaign against... porn. This is because, fundamentally, Rick Santorum is a colossal dick, and not the kind that gets you hired in the industry in question, and have I mentioned recently what a colossal dick Rick Santorum is? Anyway, just as wet-eyed laughter of the rest of the political world was dying down, Santorum went on This Week With George Snuffleupagus yesterday and backed down not an inch from his willingness to tackle the issue nobody else wants to touch, not without rubber gloves anyway. It seems that President Obama, occupied as he was with killing Osama bin Laden, had let the real war slide, unike the previous administration, and Rick Santorum has had quite enough of that, thanks: There are laws against purveying hard-core pornography. And that \u2014 we have attorney generals in the country, at least under the Bush administration, who did prosecute that. And this administration isn&amp;#039;t. And I simply said I would follow the law, which I know in the case of Barack Obama can be somewhat of a hefty challenge for him, but we&amp;#039;re going to do it as president. (Regular readers will note in that last sentence conspicuous evidence of colossal dickitude.) Unfortunately for Santorum, the precedent he cites is not a helpful one. In the early days of the Avignon Presidency, Attorney General John Ashcroft, a bigger religious cashew than even Santorum is, did indeed commit his office to a crackdown on pornography. (He also, you may recall, went balls-to-the-wall after head shops, running international criminal Tommy Chong to earth.) Of course, when one engages in an all-out assault on such a formidable enemy, priorities must be maintained. While chasing down the porn merchants, Ashcroft de-emphasized the FBI&amp;#039;s counterterrorism efforts. In fact, he vetoed an FBI request for an additional $58 million to fund its counterterrorism operations. He vetoed this on September 10, 2001. However, events soon thereafter conspired Ashcroft to re-think his position. And what does Santorum want here anyway? Didn&amp;#039;t the president send in Seal Team 6 to terminate with extreme prejudice the largest consumer of porn in the greater Abbottabad metropolitan area? Not even Chris Hanson goes that far. (Photo Illustration by DonkeyHotey via Flickr/Special to The Politics Blog) "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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