Santorum’s Insanity
Rick Santorum is off his rocker, sponsoring a bill to forbid the National Weather Service from providing weather forecasts to the U.S. taxpayer:
The bill, introduced last week by Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., would prohibit federal meteorologists from competing with companies such as AccuWeather and The Weather Channel, which offer their own forecasts through paid services and free ad-supported Web sites.Supporters say the bill wouldn’t hamper the weather service or the National Hurricane Center from alerting the public to hazards — in fact, it exempts forecasts meant to protect “life and property.”
I look up legislative activity using Thomas, a free service provided by the Library of Congress. This information can also be obtained through commercial organizations like Capitol Advantage and Congress.org.
Using Santorum’s logic, the Thomas website should be shut down.
Hat tip to moonbat Tonetheman.
Another in the string of Santorum craziness. Those companies get their information from the National Weather Service, as far as I know, so what he’s really saying is that taxpayers shouldn’t be allowed to get what they already pay for without paying a private company for it a second time. I think it may be time for random drug testing of Senators.