Tim Pawlenty Throws Olympia Snowe Under the Bus
By Heather Wednesday Nov 04, 2009 2:00pm
Looks like someone's trying to out teabag "going rogue" Sarah. Tim Pawlenty's obviously planning on running in 2012 and has decided his best course of action is to throw in with the conservative wing of the party. From The Hill--Pawlenty takes on Snowe:
Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) warned Olympia Snowe today that she's risking her position in the GOP by considering a vote for healthcare reform.
"She's somebody who has gotten into the middle of the healthcare debate in a way that makes Republicans mad," Pawlenty said on Morning Joe. "They make accept that, but they're not going to accept her deviating on many other things."
Asked whether he was glad Snowe was a Republican, Pawlenty hedged.
"There is a process in her state that is broad based that endorses her, and the Republicans in that state say 'we want her to be our candidate,'" Pawlenty said.
Pressed on the issue, Pawlenty made clear he wouldn't offer a definitive answer.
PAWLENTY: "I think Olympia Snowe is somebody who is more liberal than most Republicans would like but she is better than having a Democrat represent me."
SCARBOROUGH: "Is that a yes? I think that's a yes."
PAWLENTY: Well look, the people of Maine have an open process, they selected her. It's different [than Scozzafava]."
Olympia Snowe responded to Pawlenty's criticism...via The Politico:
"I've been a lifelong Republican -- I haven't changed, I don't know what the problem is -- I really don't," said Snowe, speaking to POLITICO at the Capitol. "I know Gov. Pawlenty to be a thoughtful person and i know if he could have rephrased it or re characterized it he would."
But Snowe, who is pro-abortion rights, took serious issue with Pawlenty's underlying argument that some members of the GOP's fast shrinking left flank, including one-time NY-23 candidate Dede Scozzafava, are so far out of the party's anti-abortion, anti-gay rights mainstream they are a "joke."
"All I know is that I've been a life-long Republican, I [spent] 16 years toiling in the minority in the House of Representatives and [was part of] the effort to get us the majority in 1994 -- now were in the minority and I'm still here," she added, with a laugh.
"So, i don't know -- I think they could probably borrow more from me in that sense, in terms of being in touch with your constituents..."
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Poor Olympia. The Republican "Contract on America" has turned it's sights on her. Maybe the Blue Dogs will accept her into their Republican refugee camp.
"There is a process in her state that is broad based that endorses her, and the Republicans in that state say 'we want her to be our candidate,'" Pawlenty said.
In other words... democracy is a far-left agenda? Why does an asshole from Minnesota get to tell the people of Maine what their constitutional rights are?
All he has to do is park the bus on the IH-35 Bridge and he won't get blamed.
I hope there are life jackets under the seats. Oh wait a minute, no life jackets is better!
The wingnuts are out in force and the GOP is eating itself once again.
The teabaggers took a big hit yesterday and they know it. This defeat gives moderate Republicans a chance to regain the Party, so the mad dogs are attacking widlly.
are saying just the opposite. Spin is spin.
And Michael Steele has about spun himself up his own ass today. Sure, both sides are spinning today, that's what we have cable news for. It's a spinning soap box.
Michael would rend the space-time continuum and cease to exist then I'm all for it!
all that will be left of the GOP. When will he wake up and ask, 'Hey, where is everybody?'
Some guys are saying that a strong Democratic Party means the end of the two party system. If the GOP disappears, we still have one: the Blue Dogs and the very few GOP moderates still extant would be a fine opposition party. That is, disagreeing, yet able to hold a useful conversation.
Will she be under the same bus as Joe Lieberman...?
...or are there separate buses for dreamocraps and Repiglickan outcasts?
Republican outcasts wind up under a Ford Econoline with a gun rack in the back and Confederate Flags painted on the side.
...then I will assume Liebeman is beneath a V.W. microbus full of amplifiers and guitars with peace symbols painted on it's side?
Partridge family bus maybe?
..it's becoming nigh unto impossible to throw anyone under the Republican bus anymore, because it keeps on veering further and further to the right. To have any chance of success you would have to throw (person) in the ditch at the side of the road, then hope for the best.
Actually the republican bus is being used right now to transport tea baggers around the country for those fine tea parties displayed on astro turf. I suppose the republicans could just hang on to the under-busers to be until the party is over.
http://www.radical4x4.net/galerias/4x4_02/jes...
...you just cant make this $^!t up ... Dog Bless America!
btw
www.democracynow.org
has the definitive take on yesterdays shenanigans ...
Repugs are under the short yellow bus on their cell phones to Captain Kangaroo!
Tim Pawlenty = Political Animal and he is P.O.S. too!
Don't rrust this guy!
can both go eff themselves as far as I'm concerned.
There's an image.
just playing the Palin base
Bachmann is there to pour the koolaid!
Miss Healthcare = Terrorism Virginia Foxx will provide the white hoods!
...but I find the 'phony pop-up' format of the weight loss ad on this page to be offensive. Not the ad itself, just the misleading presentation. I hope someone at C&L (who I'm sure are not in any way responsible) gets back to the advertiser and schools them on netiquette.
Netiquette? Wow, thats cool.
It's amazing how many people here wish that he would just stay at home and play governor in Minnesota. Personally, I wonder why anybody would think that, but... Remember, Timmeh was elected twice with a plurality of the vote in three-way (am I allowed to say that?) races, never a majority.
Tim is saying the republicans have a big tent but you gotta do a pinky swear to obey the rules before you can get under the tent. You have to walk the republican walk and talk the republican talk. In other words you have to walk a crooked line and lie like a son of a bitch.
...waltz in with a bunch of flowers and a box of candy...
...Like Arlen Specter did!
I betcha if a person brought the right flowers and the right candy they just might get in under the republican tent. Enter Sarah Palin.
the terms of membership!
I thought one of Raygun's commandments was never diss another Republican, but I don't mind if they do. Pathetic bunch of losers.
Snowe, she really is a marker in the political spectrum these days...GOP saying she isn't conservative enough? wow.
It all comes down to guns, god and gays again.
with her own state effing over gay people....so I think she'll still be at home with the rethugs.
You also have to be stupid enough to have the GOP economic platform screw the shit out of you - and not care.
The GOP's rising star. A lightweight with cupcakes.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/11/04/sara...
all of Fox News, plus Oprah and the only surprise is a Barbara Walters interview, which kind of figures, since that's more of a celeb chat than interview. I hope Baba gets her to cry.
Q:"... so, like, what Reality Shows do you watch?"
A:"...ummmm, all of them!"
Q"....ooooooh yeah!... awesome outfit your Governorship ..."
Is she gonna do some fancy pageant walking too?
Yes. But only because though they were able to get the wolves in the studio, they couldn't get the roof off the building for her to shoot them from a helicopter. So it's plan B, pageant walk and a wink for the camera.
Are you kidding me. Oprah can make all things happen. I bet the day Sarah is on all the audience members will find a dead wolf under their seat and a wolf shooting gun too.
That's some big tent ya got there Conservatives.
Pretty soon it'll boil down to Tea Baggers in a pup tent listening to Glen Beck tell scary stories.
This Thanksgiving the republicans will be eating at the kid's table.
http://www.nofussfabulous.com/wp-content/uplo...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFm0DofA8h8&fe...
Perfect. Glenn Beck will shriek and run from the room leaving more food for the others.
A big circus tent. Full of bigots, racists, homophobes, hate mongers, white supremacists, Christian mullahs, Teabaggers, Birthers, Deathers, Beckers, and other scary clowns.
It's called the tent of horrors and it's traveling with the circus to a town near you.
But the Official Bus used by the Republican Party for throwing people under is also my screen saver.
http://www.radical4x4.net/galerias/4x4_02/jes...
Oh well hell, there is plenty of room under that baby for all kinds of republicans. I bet they can squeeze beck and rush under there too if the need arises.
I totally missed that part in the bible that said, "For god so loved the world that he gave us his only monster truck"
was Chapter 17, Verse 11 in the Book of Chilton ...
at First National Bank!
I love those signs that say, "Jesus saves" but they never tell us where. He probably pulled all his savings out before the big crash. Hey, maybe that's what caused it.
..but Moses invests, and he lost his ass in the '08 crash.
There is no infighting in the GOP.
Not one bit . . .
Pass the popcorn!
:)
i hope to see more of this. the party that speaks about personal freedom but wants members to agree on everything with maybeeee allowed one exception. they want black and white thinkers/ideas/talking pointsNO nuance. it's too confusing for their brainstem. this is why they shut down ron paul-R during the elections because he revealed that the so-calleed conservative was far from conservative.
I voted for reagan twice and king george the first once before I realized what total dick wads they were. I feel shame for letting those fools sucker me into voting for them. But it also taught me that there is nothing worse then a republican! I wouldn't vote for one of them ever again. They are liars and criminal, scumbags of the lowest order. the last eight years have shown me and everyone else in the world that has a brain that these people are insane.
republicanism/conservatism is a mental illness and it is killing America. If they get their way we can call it the united states of moronica!
this guy cant answer a simple question can he?
Olympia Snow could vacation under the bus if there was a strike going on in MN. She could raise vegetables. BECAUSE if there was a strike going on good old Tim Pawlenty would ignore the issue and let the buses sit idle for months. He's done just that. He let the poor of the state walk miles and miles to a minimum wage job. And let the disabled sit home instead of getting to the needed doctor visits. The only reason he stepped up to the plate and started talking to both sides of the strike was that the graffiti started getting ugly. Nothing like a bus bench graffiti artist advertising what a lousy leader you are.
In fact, you shouldn't really worry about Tim Pawlenty throwing anyone under a bus. He wouldn't know a bus if it hit him. Talk about elitist.
Republicans and minimum standards. Kinda goes hand in hand.
They're willing to accept the lowest standards of guttersnipes to be their meat puppets, as long as they toe the line and never have the courage to buck Korporate Amerika.
there's plenty of room for all kinds of assholes: the snowe repukes, the pawlenty rethugs, the beck dildos, the limpballs retards. keep up the good work!
And I thought all the looney, wingnuttiest of the repubs were from the South! Apparently not so, with the northern likes of Pawlenty, Bachmann, Palin, Hoffman and yes, even a Dem, Max Baucus. Wowza.
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