Much To Do About Nothing

UPI

Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., has been accused of violating U.S. Senate rules in the way he obtained a home mortgage.

A liberal watchdog group filed an ethics complaint against Santorum, who is seeking re-election, based on his dealings with a Philadelphia financial firm, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette said.

In a statement, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, the group that filed the complaint with the Senate Ethics Committee, contended that the transaction violated the Senate ban on gifts "because Sen. Santorum did not meet Philadelphia Trust's client criteria and because the senator was not, in fact, a bank client at the time he received the mortgage."

Santorum and his campaign dismissed the criticisms as groundless, characterizing them as the product of bias by the magazine that first published the details of the home loan.

His campaign spokesman said that the interest-only loan was made in 2002 at a "market-driven rate," 5 percent annually over its five-year term.

Four years go by before a "liberal watchdog group " trys to use this to discredit the Senator. If a mortgage is the best they can do, they have their work cut out for them.