Is Rick Santorum Too Incompetent to be Senator?

Rick Santorum (R-VA) gets his facts wrong....again. In an interview with a website called Right Wing News (yes, folks, it really exists) the Senator makes these statements:

John Hawkins: What do you say to people who now know that we discovered 500 WMDS in Iraq, that Saddam had stockpiles of weapons, and yet they still say, "Aww, that's not a big deal. What does it prove?" What do you say to those people, Rick?

Rick Santorum: Well, I say that it was one of the pieces of the puzzle that we believe helps put together the threat that Saddam was to this country and the world... One of the things that we asserted was that he had not destroyed his stockpiles of weapons from the previous war. We sent in weapons inspectors, as people will recall, not only to look at whether he had current weapons programs in place, but to determine whether he had destroyed the weapons he said he had destroyed. It is very clear that he did not destroy those weapons and that those weapons would have been available and unfortunately still are available to...terrorist organizations that could use them against us or other countries around the world.

And this:

John Hawkins: If someone said to you, "Rick, I am undecided between you and Casey. Give me three differences between the two of you that would convince me to vote for you." What would you tell them?

Rick Santorum: First, I'd say taxes are a big difference. He is against the tax reductions of 2001 and 2003. He said he would like to raise...rates up to 50% for the top bracket. He is absolutely a traditional tax and spend Democrat.

First of all, it is insane to try and say this junkpile of pre-1991 Gulf War munitions were any threat to the United States in 2003. Department of Defense officials have said these weapons weren't even stable any longer and not a threat. Yet Rick Santorum is either using these to needlessly instill fear into the minds of Americans or he's dangerously incompetent.

As for the second statement about taxes. "Borrow and Spend" Rick Santorum, who is responsible for voting for budgets and reckless tax policies that have bankrupted our nation and indebted it to Red China, accuses his opponent of wanting to raise the top tax bracket to 50%.

Now I was somewhat involved in the Democratic Senate primary race. Followed it rather closely you might say. While Bob Casey isn't someone I support I won't sit aside while Santorum accuses him of saying something he has never said. Casey never supported a 50% tax bracket for the rich. That was Chuck Pennacchio's proposal. Get your facts straight Mr. Santorum.

When you combine the gaffes in this interview with his insistence on using Senate time and resources on issues like flag burning and gay marriage instead of balancing the budget, providing health care for all Americans, stopping the outsourcing of jobs, protecting our environment, providing a living wage for hard working citizens, and enforcing our immigration laws, it is evident the man is totally incompetent to be our United States Senator.