How much does a senator cost?

[elfs]

Rick "Man on Dog" Santorum has introduced a bill into Congress that would forbid the National Weather Service and associated organizations like NOAA from making public the information it gathers. His rationale is that "The National Weather Service threatens the livelihood of private meteorologists." Un-huh.

Barry Myers, AccuWeather's executive vice president, said the bill would improve public safety by making the weather service devote its efforts to hurricanes, tsunamis and other dangers, rather than duplicating products already available from the private sector.

"The National Weather Service has not focused on what its core mission should be, which is protecting other people's lives and property," said Myers, whose company is based in State College, Pa. Instead, he said, "It spends hundreds of millions of dollars a year, every day, producing forecasts of 'warm and sunny.'" "

To which the director at the NWS said, "You don't plug your clock in when you want to know what time it is. To know when people's lives and property might be in danger, we have to be forecast the weather all the time."

How much did Accuweather pay to have Rick Santorum take your tax money and deny you yet another service? $4,600.

Not only is he perverse, he's cheap!

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[neowolf2.livejournal.com]

Santorum is probably scrambling for money. He's up for reelection in 2006, and the latest polls (http://postgazette.com/pg/05110/491435.stm) show him trailing his likely challenger by 14 percent. Apparently the new Social Security plan went over like a lead balloon in Pennsylvania.