WASHINGTON - Ousted Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum yesterday cast 1 of only 2 “no” votes on the confirmation of Robert Gates as Secretary of Defense. Santorum then delivered a nearly hour long speech warning of the dangers of not confronting "Islamic fascism" and anti-American countries such as Venezuela , North Korea and Cuba. "How do those who deny this evil propose to save us from these people?” said Santorum. “By negotiating through the U.N. or directly with Iran? By firing Don Rumsfeld, [and] now getting rid of John Bolton? That's going to solve the problem?"Later in the evening, Santorum was also the lone “no” vote on a Senate resolution passed 99-1 to extend congratulations to the Girl Scouts of America on reaching its 96th anniversary. In Santorum’s wee-hours speech in front of an empty Senate floor, he warned of the dangers of not eliminating the “cult of uniformed little girls who push their addictive sugar snacks on loyal Americans,” and who are indoctrinated to “leave their homes and their mothers in favor of other strange women who brainwash them into service for their cause.”
