{"id":7243,"date":"2012-02-25T00:04:05","date_gmt":"2012-02-25T08:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=7243"},"modified":"2012-02-25T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2012-02-25T08:04:05","slug":"santorum-in-dutch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2012\/02\/25\/santorum-in-dutch\/","title":{"rendered":"Santorum in Dutch"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rick Santorum had done a superior job of spreading his froth around in the United States, but now he has decided to demonstrate his foreign policy expertise by frothing an entire country, and an ally, no less.  He made up the lies he told, and the Netherlands, despite considerable restraint, is clearly not happy.<\/font><\/p>\n

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A member of the Dutch Parliament expressed outrage<\/a> on Thursday that the country\u2019s government has so far declined to directly contradict the Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum\u2019s false claim that forced euthanasia is legal and common in the Netherlands<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"25map-netherlands\"As The Lede reported this week<\/a>, the Dutch Embassy in Washington refused to comment, but did provide The Times with information proving that Mr. Santorum was wrong<\/strong> to say that forced euthanasia accounts for 5 percent of all deaths in the Netherlands, and elderly people are killed in Dutch hospitals to save money. A spokeswoman for the embassy explained that the Dutch government wanted to stay out of the American presidential election.<\/p>\n

That reticence, however, enraged Frans Timmermans, a leading member of the opposition Labor Party in The Hague, who said in a note posted on Facebook<\/a> that he wanted the nation\u2019s foreign minister to formally rebuke Mr. Santorum. As Radio Netherlands reports<\/a>, Mr. Timmermans wrote: \u201cthe ambassador gave \u2018no comment\u2019 on Santorum\u2019s scandalous accusations aimed at our country. How is that possible?\u201d <\/p>\n

He then called on Uri Rosenthal, the foreign minister, to make a public statement, before concluding, \u201cThis cannot be allowed to rest.\u201d\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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It\u2019s bad enough that a candidate for President has lied so blatantly about an ally, but if he did it as President, it would create an international incident.  Rachel Maddow has more on this with Eric Mouthaan.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Visit msnbc.com for breaking news<\/a>, world news<\/a>, and news about the economy<\/a><\/p>\n

The lying SOB made this up to bring back the death panels meme that has been thoroughly disproven, except on Faux Noise<\/em>. I have to disagree with Eric Mouthaan on one point. Santorum is NOT a serious candidate. Nevertheless he my froth his way into the nomination.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rick Santorum had done a superior job of spreading his froth around in the United States, but now he has decided to demonstrate his foreign policy expertise by frothing an entire country, and an ally, no less.  He made up the lies he told, and the Netherlands, despite considerable restraint, is clearly not happy. A […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}