From Raw Story

Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), who has established his credentials as a conservative Republican from a moderate state, is beginning to wear on the White House’s patience, according to a report Tuesday in Roll Call, RAW STORY can reveal.

Santorum has been a vitriolic critic of President Bush’s now all-but-defeated plan to privatize Social Security. Now, it seems, White House allies are pushing back.

The president did essentially what [Santorum] was talking about. I don’t know why he’s pinging the White House, a GOP source with knowledge of the administration’s thinking told the Capitol Hill paper. The paper’s headline? “Santorum Out-Bushes Bush Team on Social Security.”

Roll Call notes Santorum told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette last week that he didn’t understand Bush’s decision to take on the sacred cow of the [political] left so soon after the 2004 election.

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