Santorum Fails Simple Ethics And Vocabulary Test

Rick Santorum is saying medical malpractice payouts should be capped at $250,000.  He says anything more "unnecessarily" drives up health care costs.  There's just one problem: he testified on behalf of his wife when she tried to sue for $500,000.  For whose who can't do math any better than he can, that's twice what he thinks our pain and suffering is worth.

Then taking a routine fail to epic levels, he than argues that his wife didn't sue for pain and suffering, which is what he wants to cap.  Well um, not quite.  The judge in their case called the $350,000 payout the eventually got excessive, and in fact it was for pain and suffering.  Santorum calls it "emotional and physical toll" instead of pain and suffering, because he can't add any better than he can utilize a thesaurus.

And in a final death rattle of stupidity, he says there is no conflict in his testimony on his wife's behalf and the cap he intends to push.  Which is just another way of saying when it's him it matters, when it's the common folk then he can't be bothered.