rssPawlenty says ’05 Minnesota government shutdown should have lasted longer
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 at 1:51 pm
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Former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty continued his media tour with an appearance on Fox News Tuesday, drawing a comparison between Minnesota’s 2005 budget shutdown and the federal government’s potential shutdown in the coming months.
Host Neil Cavuto asked him if he would be open to the federal government shutting down if legislators did not vote to raise the debt limit. Pawlenty drew on his experience during the ’05 Minnesota shutdown, saying — as he has said before — it should have lasted longer, as he should have pushed for more of his own agenda in the final deal. “In Minnesota, it’s a very liberal place. It leans pretty hard the other way. I had to draw lines in the sand and I had to back it up. It wasn’t always pretty but — we had shut downs.”
When asked whether a shutdown was “playing with fire,” Pawlenty said, “In Minnesota we survived it okay. You don’t want to be reckless or irresponsible about it, but there’s going to have to be some lines in the sand.” He used the phrase “lines in the sand” three times in a little over a minute.
(h/t TPM)
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Pingback posted January 16, 2011 @ 8:20 pm
[...] Pawlenty has other attributes in his favor as well. On the Cato Institute’s most recent fiscal report card, Pawlenty outperformed Daniels, scoring an A-rating to Daniels’ B, earning another favorable article from the ‘Standard. Pawlenty does have some challenges to his credibility to overcome, such as his 2006 declaration that “the era of small government is over,” but he can hope that his record will speak for itself. As Governor of Minnesota in 2005, he shut down the state’s government for 10-days over a budget dispute, which he even states wasn’t long enough. [...]
Pingback posted February 28, 2011 @ 1:58 pm
[...] the aspiring nominee for President has evolved, yet again, by suggesting that the 2005 shutdown should have lasted longer because it showed Democrats he was [...]
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