Pawlenty 'considering' presidential run

This is why Obama's poll numbers dipping slightly doesn't bother me.

Romney, Huckabee, Palin, Newt, and Guilani.

So, the Repugs have got an animal abuser, a bible thumping nutjob, a bumbling bimbo, a serial adulterer and another serial adulterer.

Toss in crazy Alan Keyes and it's kinda easy to see how Pawlenty could get the Repug nomination among the current list of clowns. Except that Pawlenty has all the charisma of a wet cardboard box and he screwed up things in Minnesota pretty badly already. He's got no chance.

Courageous and bold move to oppose Obama, and beat the crowd. In the 8 months since Obama bobbed to the top of the political cesspool he has proved to be the worst president ever, beyond redemption. He broke all his campaign promises -transparency, openness, bi-partisanship, anti-corruption, no lobbyists, and no middle class tax increase, out of Iraq in 16 months. Worst of all, he has killed millions of babies by bankrolling the abortion mills. It would be better for the Dems and the country to initiate at strong opposition than to continue supporting this freedom stealing, economy busting, baby-killing socialist.

Oh, Mark makes another slam against a little known Kansas Congresswoman.
Mark, since you enjoy throwing around the racism word and terrorist word, I'm beginning to think you are a racist and a terrorist. In this day of highly charged debate, unemployment high and the overall kookiness of your friends on the Left, for you to keep throwing out the racist label and terrorist label against those you disagree with is highly irresponsible. Also, usually those who throw out a label usually do so to cover their own faults.

Also, I love how you cite Dean Baker, who is a liberal economist. The Center for Economic Policy and Research claims to be nonpartisan, but it is liberal. Just look at the columns and other articles put out by folks like Dean.
Mark, Pawlenty is right. Of that $787 billion in stimulus money, only about 30 percent of it actually was meant to stimulate. If about 10 percent or so of that has been spent, how can $30 billion improve a $14 TRILLION economy? Please explain that one, Mark.

And you really need to stop with the petty slams. It makes you seem like John E.

Pawlenty.

He's the most credible name to surface so far.

I wouldn't dismiss him so cavalierly.

He's not a good speaker, however.

And you really need to stop with the petty slams. It makes you seem like John E.

Posted by: John D | August 28, 2009 4:54 PM
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Can you say: 'Pot meets Kettle', Lil Johnny Troglodyte?

And who is the "economist" named "Dean Baker" that Mark Silva brings in to diss Republican Pawlenty?

A Democrat, naturally. A former Bucknell professor who's on record as contributing to Dem candidates. And whose partisan affilation Mr. Silva, as usual, hides.

One of these days, journalists will learn they can't get away with this. In the internet age, it's too easy to discover what they're hiding.

Eddie Carl Grund,

The BushCo Republicans gave us what? Record deficits, record foreign debt, record trade deficits, butchering the middle class, letting the financial sector run wild with absolutely no oversight and those are a just a few things.

The American people are not stupid, they don't blame Pres Obama for the fiscal condition of this country after just 7+ months in office, they just want him to pass a good healthcare bill.

Mark, since you enjoy throwing around the racism word and terrorist word, I'm beginning to think you are a racist and a terrorist.

Posted by: John D | August 28, 2009 4:54 PM

Interesting logic. Applying it would make YOU a loon, and the worst that humanity has to offer, wouldn't it? It would also make you deranged, more filled with hate than any other creature on earth, a terrorist, and -- OH MY GOD!!! A LIBERAL!!!

@Edward Carl Grund

Fascinating post from the planet Xnoxyon, which orbits the star Pythium in the 10th galaxy on the right.

Let's just address one of the many understatements in this restrained post: broken campaign promises. Are you saying, intergalactic traveler, that you relied on Obama's campaign promises in voting for him?

No?

Do be silent then.

SHE LIED: Republican Rep. Jenkins Knows All About the "Great White Hope"
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"Jenkins, R-Kan., said Thursday she didn’t know “great white hope” had a negative connotation when she recently used the phrase to describe Republicans’ search for a new leader."

"However, the freshman lawmaker supported a resolution that included that exact phrase last month when the House approved by unanimous consent a measure urging President Obama to pardon black U.S. boxer Jack Johnson. Johnson, who died in 1946, was the target of an early 1900s racist plot and convicted in 1913 of transporting a white woman across state lines for immoral reasons."

"Within the resolution passed by the House July 29 was a passage that read, “Whereas the victory by Jack Johnson over Tommy Burns prompted a search for a White boxer who could beat Jack Johnson, a recruitment effort that was dubbed the search for the ‘great white hope.’”
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http://www.ottawaherald.com/story/082809jenkinsvote

This is just begging the question to be asked -- which is worse: Republcan Lynn Jenkins' knowing and lying about her knowledge of the "great white hope" or the potential ignorance of a resolution her spokesperson says she supported. It's pretty bad and this story is just steamrolling out of control for the GOP.

But this isn't the only evidence that Jenkins' should know better. As was reported yesterday, the real "great white hope" who defeated Johnson was actually from Kansas -- and lived less than 30 miles from Lynn Jenkins' home town:

"Willard was a resident of St. Clere, which is a mere 27 miles from Jenkins' hometown of Holton and in the same congressional district she represents in Congress."
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http://mediamattersaction.org/blog/200908270009

Not only that, a simple search of wikipedia reveals that when Jack Johnston was arrested in 1915 he was imprisoned in Kansas, at Leavenworth -- which is inside of Jenkins' district! So not only has Lynn Jenkins voted on a resolution about the "great white hope" this summer, she grew up near where the real "great white hope" was from, and she represents the district where Jack Johnson, the target of the "great white hope", was wrongly imprisoned. That doesn't all add up, huh?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(boxer)

baby-killing socialist.

Posted by: Edward Carl Grund | August 28, 2009 4:42 PM

Oh please brother Ed....gives us a hymm of the tolerance your hypocritical church preaches. While you disingenuously talk of the lefts "messiah" please pass on the proof of yours. Throw an extra 25 cents in the offering plate this week to feel better about yourself. You need it!

Oh DopieOpie, I called Mark a racist and terrorist because I wanted to feel what it's like to just throw those labels around willy nilly to anyone you disagree with, especially the racist label. You loons on the left love to throw out that racist label.

Now, Dumb Dumb Janet, you are the Mother Queen Idiot of petty, stupid remarks. I'm wondering Janet, how is that little alcohol problem of yours doing?

I really thought that all of these people in congress/politics were educated, as in most have a college education and some even have advanced degrees. But when I hear/see them only speaking the party lines/talking points, it makes me wonder how these people ever were elected to office. It is almost as if they never had an original thought in their heads. Are the voters that gullible?

Oh DopieOpie, I called Mark a racist and terrorist because I wanted to feel what it's like to just throw those labels around willy nilly to anyone you disagree with, especially the racist label. You loons on the left love to throw out that racist label.
Posted by: John D | August 28, 2009 11:51 PM

Funny how there's always some excuse for why YOU get to throw out comments that are as vile as anybody can imagine, yet when anybody ELSE says something that YOU don't agree with, particularly (I might say "exclusively" and not be far off) somebody on the LEFT, you're all over yourself to howl about how unconscionable "they" are. You get PLENTY of chances to throw labels around willy nilly (as do many, many of your comrades on the right), so I'm not buying this latest sample of your garbage for a second. You're still a slimeball, and not a particularly bright one at that.

Planet Nuttjobia:

B.O. is in the process of shattering all records in just 7+ mos. time, without having to deal with a terror attack and its aftermath like W.

More bread and circuses, please. Please put them on the Asians' tab. Thank you.

I thought it was hilarious when 'The Paw' said at the RNConv. in Minnehaha, "How about that Minnesota hospitality!"
There is something called 'Minnesota Friendly', and it ain't friendly. It goes something like this:

Imagine some disliked relatives or friends stop by unannounced. The host may respond something like this;

'Gee whiz, we are happy you came by like a surprise. All we had planned was a day reading, gardening, then going to Matt's. Hope you enjoy our food. We will try to get more and better eats for ya at the earliest possible opportunity. Let's pray the bed our room is good enough for ya. Do ya want the AC lowered? If it's too crowded for ya we could go to a motel for ya?'

Something like that.

drip,
She probably didn't read the bill....

Go for it, Tim! You've got all the charisma of a block of Velveeta.

Athena,

We've seen what charisma gets us - $9,000,000,000,000 in deficits.

Terry,
How much of that is directly attributable to Bush's wars? To Bush's failed economy?

Athena,

BO can pull the trops out tomorrow if he chooses. However, he seems top be escalating Afghanistan.

To answer your question - less than a Trillion since BO plans to have troops out of Iraq by May 20,2011 - as least that was his campaign promise.

How much of that deficit is due to liberal big gov't programs?