Rick Santorum explains unemployment remark

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14. Isn't it nice? Ricky Sweater Vest gets a do-over!

Compare and contrast, class, with how the popular media treated James O'Keefe's submissions and their creative editing to kill ACORN and force Shirley Sherrod out of a job. Nobody forced Santorum to say what he said, and his remarks weren't taken out of context. But he gets the grace and the space to "explain" what he really meant to say.

Then again, what he really meant to say was pretty stupid, too. Put it this way: Why does a car have brakes? If you say "To stop it," you're not correct. A car has brakes so you can drive fast. How fast would you drive your car if you knew it didn't have brakes? Would you even get in a car that had no brakes? In the same fashion, business needs regulation and oversight, otherwise it's a mad dash to grab as much money with both hands as you can before the whole system collapses. Like what happened four years ago, when the crooks had looted about as much as they could, and legitimate business ventures were being sucked into the lawless hole created by these latter day robber barons.

Business does just fine in a regulated environment with predictable enforcement and punishment of wrong-doers. Santorum is, you should pardon the expression, talking out his ass.