David Brooks' obituary for Rick Santorum's Senate career in the Sunday New York Times all but nominated the two-term Pennsylvania senator for political martyrdom. "After Election Day," Brooks wrote, "the underprivileged will probably have lost one of their least cuddly but most effective champions."
I'm not sure what unholy bargain Brooks brokered with his editors to write such blasphemy, but here are a few of Saint Santorum's legislative "accomplishments" that Brooks conveniently omitted.
Santorum voted 12 times against raising the minimum...
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