Pawlenty: I’m Calling Obama Out

[...] News Sources wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptGov. Tim Pawlenty’s (R-Minn.) speech to the Values Voter Summit was tipped as a pivotal moment in his appeal to the GOP’s conservative base. Pawlenty hardly missed a target, and got his biggest applause when he mocked the president for saying he’d “call out” people who misled about his health care plan. “I accept the challenge,” said Pawlenty. “I’ll just respond by calling out the president back tonight!” Then he lit into Obama with a killer final line: The next time you speak to a group of [...]

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Credit where credit's due, but getting a crowd of wingnuts riled up is not something to be concerned about, frankly. And again, pimping Christianity for votes – sickening.

This debt was created by Bush who inherited a surplus. Hypocrites, all of them. And they want to make it worse so that our children do not have proper health care. They best pray for immortality as when they die, payback will be in hell

Republicans must never look in the mirror.

Ask Pawlenty about his heavy ties with outstate gambling interests…
Or why the collapse of Interstate bridge in Minneapolis isn't the fault of his administration interference with the MN Dept of Transportation via his Lt.Gov?
Or why he feels that cutting state support for education and health care in urban centers helps youth?
Or why he was barely re-elected by a 1% margin.
Or why Minnesota's Republican state legislators suffered a significant reduction in head count recently.

Could it have something to do with “leadership”?

[...] the text of Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s (R-Minn.) speech from the Values Voter Summit, annotated to note when the audience applauded. Thanks to the VVS [...]

[...] the text of Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s (R-Minn.) speech from the Values Voter Summit, annotated to note when the audience applauded. Thanks to the VVS [...]

i like pawlenty less after this article. obama is an unbearable liar and a hack but i'd vote for him in 2012 over a right wing nuttter reciting bible verses any day.

The crushing debt that young adults face results from the reactionary interests who have done everything possible to ensure that college education is necessary for entry into and remaining in the American Good Life, but that it has also gotten fiendishly expensive — so fiendishly expensive that a 4-year college degree can be as expensive as a house. Add to that, Corporate America has imposed not only glass ceilings to constrain advances of the “wrong” people, but also piked pits for those who fail unless they are executives, in which case they get golden parachutes.

Oh, the hypocrisy!

That's personal debt. National debt? Didn't Dubya run huge deficits while sponsoring a speculative boom that went bust? That bust required a huge commitment of federal expenditures just to keep America from enduring another Great Depression. The bailouts began when Dubya was President — probably because his banker buddies started getting scared of the prospect of a Red Revolution — the sort with a hammer-and-sickle attached, the sort that would likely dispossess tycoons, big landowners, and executives and kill those among them who didn't flee fast enough.

As for the Biblical reference,

If My people, who are called by My Name, will humble themselves and pray and seek My Face and turn from their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land. (2 Chronicles 7:14)

After prisoner abuse at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib, lying about WMDs, corrupt deals with Big Business, and of course harsh treatment of the poor throughout the world — including America — American leadership, at least of the GWB era, has many wicked ways from which to turn and needs to humble itself before God and who knows what else. Maybe those who voted for and enabled the Rove/Cheney/Bush clique might do as well to honor 2 Chronicles 7:14.

Like Dracula, they might find nothing there. Of course, Dracula seems not to have had much of an inner life.

I don't know; a bunch of riled-up wingnuts aided the rise of the Devil Incarnate in a certain country in central Europe in 1933.

The most important quality required in a Repug is amnesia. The second seems to be a lobotomy.

oh, is reverend pawlenty a leader of the “hamas wing” of the republican party.

[...] the text of Gov. Tim Pawlenty’s (R-Minn.) speech from the Values Voter Summit, annotated to note when the audience applauded. Thanks to the VVS [...]

It's nice to see the rest of the world gets to see the real a-hole Pawlenty that we in Minnesota have always known, instead of the corporate media-created “moderate”. He as always politically been a total jerk.

It's true that the national debt increased under Bush who had to deal with a Democrat led Congress and complicit Republicans. They're ALL to blame. Now, with the stimulus bill, we will never get out from under debt, and neither will our great, great grandchildren. You may have heard of the conundrum: If nothing is impossible with God, can He make a rock too heavy for Him to lift? A little twist on that: If government is your god, can Congress run up a debt that's too heavy to pay off? It seems that they have. I only hope our children will be able to forgive us.

Pawlenty couldn't call out a one-eyed, one-armed, one-legged kid with a speech impediment. You'd have to hand him a bat! The kid would still wax him.

The question remains the one stoned-on-medicinal-marijuana Homer Simpson asked Ned Flanders:

“Could Jesus microwave a burrito so hot that even He could not eat it?”

Pawlenty is grabbing the bible base just as George W. Bush did. It's interesting to hear his followers delight as they call Obama a fascist, nazi and a socialist while they surrender their own freedom to authoritative and biblical law. Their leaders are cheating on their wives, hiring prostitutes and having gay sex in airport bathrooms, while their daughters engage in unprotected sex, keep the baby and then go on the stump to promote abstinence. Compare these people to an eloquent, educated leader like Barak Obama. Can you really choose them to lead our country?

Gov. Pawlenty looks like the kid whom the geeks beat up to get their lunch money back after being beaten up themselves.

Ummm, what about the young people who will inherit Bush's Medicare Prescription gift to Big Pharma — that nobody even tried to pay for?

That would be $10 TRILLION in deficits as defined by law (10 years)

And $30 TRILLION in unfunded liabilities (75 years)

Nobody even confused conservatives (or liberals) of having a brain. Not when the base of BOTH parties combined is only 26%

Then we have the fools who believe Obama is any better!!!

God help America

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Good grief. Bush apologists are as bad as Holocaust Deniers.

Bush increased the deficit entirely on hs own. The Democrats had nothing to do with it. While the Tea Party was napping, or on meth, it was Bush and the Republicans who jammed through the Medicare Prescription Drug bribe to Big Pharma.

That alone adds $10 TRILLION to deficits and $30 TRILLION to unfunded liabilities.

Granted, Democrats conned GWB into that trillion-dollar military occupation of Iraq that lost more troops that all the civilian deaths on 9/11 — and where we killed ten times as many Iraqi civilians as we lost on 9/11.

Not to mention torture-filled concentration camps, as the Christian Right (SOME of them) abandon their belief in God-given rights to deny constitutional protections to non-citizens.

Meanwhile, voter are fleeing both parties in disgust, leaving the total base of BOTH parties at only 26% (15% GOP, 11% DEM).

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Do you know any Republicans stupid enough to believe that excluding “pre-existing conditions” is a profit conspiracy by insurance companies? Our President believes that — which is just as stupid as the Dearth Panelists and Birthers.

Apparently, Democrats believe I should be able to buy life insurance on my father. He's already dead, but why should that matter?

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