Red State on “Big Government Conservative” Rick Santorum

Writes Red State founder Erick Erickson:

 

I’m rather tired of all the people who don’t like Romney trying to claim Rick Santorum is not a big government conservative… He is.  You will have to deal with it.  Santorum is right on social issues, but has never let his love of social issues stand in the way of the creeping expansion of the welfare state…

 

Erickson then runs through Santorum’s voting record (edited for length, emphasis mine):

 

NEA

Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.

Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.

 

Defense and Foreign Policy

Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.

Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.

Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea

 

Labor

Voted against National Right to Work Act

 Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages

 Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor

 Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding

 Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization

 Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.

 Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here

 

Read more to see how Santorum voted on Gun Rights, Immigration, Taxes, Welfare, Wasteful spending, Entitlements, Health Care, and more.