Gov Pawlenty (R-MN) hasn't responded to census

Yeah, the great fiscal conservative is making it so the Federal government now has to pay to send someone out to count him. Hope someone notes this for the next time he bitches about spending. Asshat.

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty says he hasn't filled out his census form, which was due more than a week ago.

Pawlenty made the comment on his weekly radio show on WCCO Radio on Friday.

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Pawlenty says, "I'm going to fill it out in a timely manner."

April 1 was the deadline for completing and mailing census forms. Census workers are set to visit homes that don't respond. Federal law requires people to participate in the census.

The Loon Rangers: Palin and Pawlenty to help Bachmann raise cash

By GottaLaff

The three of them together? That's a combustible combo; they better provide fire extinguishers to the attendees to treat all the exploding heads.

Check your watches, it's Crazy O'Clock:

Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty [...] will meet in Minneapolis next month to help raise money for Rep. Michele Bachmann, an outspoken conservative and popular figure among Tea Party activists. [...]

But Bachmann's campaign also announced that Pawlenty, the Minnesota governor, will be one of several "Honorary Hosts" for the fundraiser - adding an extra layer of 2012 intrigue to the event.

Know who else will be an "honorary host"? Ready? Toker Norm Coleman! Think they'll serve brownies? Maybe he can share his stash with MaryJane McDoobie?

Bachmann's campaign said a rally with Palin is still being planned.

The Loon Rangers ride again.

Video- Sunday Loon Watch: Republicans start counting their November chickens

Here's hoping these guys are very disappointed in the fall. Via Jed.

At 31% Ron Paul wins CPAC straw poll, Palin? 7%

By GottaLaff

Just in via CNN:

Ron Paul won the CPAC straw poll.

Via Greg Mitchell:

Fox anchor says "amazing how much support Ron Paul has, I've never seen a politician with such a strong organization." No, not a joke.

Poor Mitt Willard Romney. His winning streak is over.

Results via Mike Madden:

Straw poll at #CPAC10:

Ron Paul wins with 31%,
Mitt Romney 22%,
Sarah Palin 7%,
Tim Pawlenty 6%,
Mike Pence 5%,
Newt Gingrich 4%.

Losey McSevenPercent comes in third. And Newtie? Yeah, no.

Then again, these things don't mean much. But it is fun to snark about.

CPAC Watch: Tim Pawlenty exploits Tiger Woods scandal

By GottaLaff

Timing is everything:

"It's like Tiger Woods' wife, we should take a nine iron to the back windshield of big government spending and smash it out."

-- Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), quoted by Minnesota Public radio, speaking at the CPAC conference.

Had Timmy just waited, he'd have learned that he should be speaking in hushed, reverent tones about the Woods affair(s).

And how tasteful of him to politicize that scandal to make his party look like they might actually have a plan or something.

Not to mention the emphasis on violence.

Not to mention the hypocrisy, considering the number of scandals members of his own party have recently been involved in.

Not to mention he's just wrong.

Pawlenty Budget Relies on Stimulus Money

Snort. I hope someone on the D's side is taking notes. Via Taegan-

Nearly one-third of Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty's (R) final budget proposal would rely on $387 million in federal stimulus money to balance the budget, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Pawlenty opposed passage of the economic stimulus legislation early last year telling Bloomberg it was "largely wasted" and "misdirected."

Obama Leads Potential 2012 Match Ups

By GottaLaff

First we find out liberals still strongly support the president, and now this. What a loser, huh?

A new Public Policy Polling survey tests potential 2012 presidential match ups and finds Mike Huckabee, Sarah Palin, and Tim Pawlenty "all have their best performances relative to Obama in this month's poll and Mitt Romney matches his strongest standing yet."

• Obama 46%, Huckabee 45%
• Obama 47%, Romney 42%
• Obama 50%, Palin 44%
• Obama 48%, Pawlenty 35%

"The importance of these numbers 35 months before Obama has to stand for reelection is obviously limited but it does seem pretty clear that his electoral position is weaker than it was a year ago at this time."

Yes, it is weaker than a year ago... when he hadn't yet been sworn in... and hadn't so much as started his honeymoon period yet... and was viewed as welcome relief from BushCo... and was still basking in his landslide win over Palin/McCain... and hadn't made any controversial decisions yet... or had yet to deal with a Congress that resembles a barroom brawl... on a good day.

Tim Pawlenty: "Thank you, Lord, for my red-hot, smokin' wife."

By GottaLaff

Here's Gov. Tim trying to be Not Mark Sanford and Not John Ensign:

"Thank you, Lord, for my red-hot, smokin' wife."

-- Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R), quoted by the Des Moines Register, channeling Will Ferrell when introducing his wife, Mary, at an Iowa Republican fundraising dinn

You bet he's thanking the lord... that he's not those other guys. Yet.

Poll- President Obama Leads All 2012 Match Ups

I just like this one for the huge numbers gap.

Public Policy Polling on some hypothetical 2012 match ups: President Obama leads Mike Huckabee 47% to 43%, Mitt Romney 48% to 40%, Sarah Palin 52% to 40%, and Tim Pawlenty 50% to 30%.

Interesting: Huckabee is the only Republican with a positive favorability rating and even then it's only 33% to 29%.

Video- O'Reilly Wants Pawlenty To Investigate Whether ACORN Stole Election For Franken

With Bill, everything revolves around Franken. Vid via NewsHounds.

Pawlenty of nothin'

By GottaLaff

Guess which network he said this on? If you said ClusterFox, you'd be right. Darn, did the photo give it away?

The Minnesota Governor called Cash for Clunkers "misguided" and "ludicrous" before saying, "There's a joke out now that says the main value of the Cash for Clunkers program may be that we'll get a lot of cars with Obama stickers off the road."

Oh, hahahaaa! Man-oh-man, what a laugh riot! I am in stitches here! Wow! Who writes your material...

....Sean Hannity?

The implication of that "joke" seems to be that it's poor Obama supporters who own old clunkers that were the beneficiaries of this government program.

And the President's plan for health care reform?

It's like a manure spreader in a wind storm. It's just throwing out of more bad ideas, it's hard to even keep track of them in this bill.

Classy, Tim, classy.

If anyone is full of pucky here, it's the guy in the photo.

Tim Pawlenty Locks Up Top GOP Talent For 2012

Good luck with that. Your own state doesn't even want to vote you in as President. But hey, if you've got RedState one your side...

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) "has been quietly assembling the blueprint of a presidential campaign and will announce Thursday the support of a group of high-level political strategists and donors, complemented by a handful of top new media consultants," Politico reports.

"Pawlenty, under the radar of D.C.'s political community, has locked up some of the key operatives who engineered then-President George W. Bush's reelection campaign -- a significant feat for a little-known Midwestern politician."

Tim Pawlenty Reads Out Phone Sex Hotline Number On Radio Show

By GottaLaff

Freudian slip? Wishful thinking?

Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty made a slip of the tongue Friday morning on his weekly radio show, giving out a phone number that encourages people to call "for a good time" rather than the number for people to call in to talk to him on his program.

"Slip of the tongue"? Snerk! Good choice of words.

During the program, Pawlenty was giving out phone numbers viewers could call into, when he prefixed the call-in line with 1-800, instead of the prefix for WCCO Radio's call-in number, 1-866.

"0-0"? Oh-oh!

::cheesy porn music:: Hel-LO:

The 1-800 number Pawlenty inadvertently advertised features a voice-recording which instructs people who want to "call and talk to fun people" to call a second number. The second number is a phone sex chat line.

Congratulations, Tenther Tim. You have finally become a fun person.

H/t: The Plum Line

VIDEO- DNC ad: Pawlenty is a liar

By GottaLaff



We need to go on the offensive, and we need to be consistent about it:

Ahead of President Obama's visit to Minneapolis Saturday, the Democratic National Committee is out with a new attack ad painting Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty as a politician attempting to appeal to the "extremists" in the Republican party.

"Tim Pawlenty is spreading lies about health reform," the nearly two-minute web ad charges.

See, if you smack 'em down, they get all defensive and stuff:

RNC Spokesman LeRoy Coleman released the following statement in response to the DNC ad:

“Once again, the Democrats are desperately trying to shift attention away from their extraordinarily unpopular health care plan – especially on a day when the President is bringing his traveling road show to Minnesota in an attempt to sell his floundering government-run health care proposal. Minnesotans, however, aren’t fooled by the rhetoric. The President’s government-run health care plan would increase costs, increase taxes, increase the deficit and reduce health care choice and quality.”

Um, no. Once again Rushpublics, "you lie!" Here's proof.

Tim Pawlenty May Invoke the 10th Amendment to Stop Health Care Reform

By GottaLaff

Timmy's playing the Tenther card? Seriously? Just when you thought Teh Stupid couldn't get any Teh Stupider:

On a Thursday night conference call with conservative activists, moderated by Erick Erickson of RedState, Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) broached the possibility of “asserting the 10th Amendment” to keep Minnesota from fully participating in a health care plan passed by Congress and signed by President Obama. The 10th Amendment reads:

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

Pawlenty, in part:

Depending on what the federal government comes out with here, asserting the 10th Amendment might be viable option, but we don’t know the details. As one of the other callers said, we can’t really even get the president to outline what he does or doesn’t support in any detail. So we’ll have to see. I’d say that’s a possibility.

You’re starting to see more governors, including me, and specifically Gov. Perry from Texas, and most Republican governors express concern around these issues and get more aggressive about asserting and bringing up the 10th Amendment. So I think we could see hopefully a resurgence of those claims and maybe even lawsuits if need be.

My achin' head. Someone make these nutballs go away.

Lawsuit over what? And while we're on that subject, aren't the lawyers the bad guys? Aren't the Rushpublics the ones who keep kvetching about too many frivolous lawsuits?

And which unconstitutional powers exactly is Obama exerting? The power of the president to veto or sign the legislation that Congress presents to him? Those unconstitutional powers?

Pawlenty and Perry, or as I will now aptly call them, PP, need to try to regain what's left of their sanity, shut their yaps, act like Americans, or leave office.

Time to flush the PP away. In other words, piss off.

Video- Gov Tim Pawlenty: GOP's 'clearly' been damaged

What insight.

Good news for Franken: Pawlenty will follow state Supreme Court's direction

By GottaLaff

I haven't heard this discussed anywhere yet, surprisingly:

Pawlenty, whose term lasts 19 more months, also said he would follow the state Supreme Court's direction on whether to issue an election certificate in the disputed U.S. Senate race.

Republican Norm Coleman, whose term expired in January, is contesting the recount that tipped the race to Democrat Al Franken by a few hundred votes. Pawlenty said he'll follow the state Supreme Court's direction on the certificate and won't "hold it up or delay it in any fashion."

If you put this together with what I posted yesterday, things are starting to look up for the U.S. Senate's 60th Democratic member, Al Franken, finally.

Tim Pawlenty will not run for a third term

By GottaLaff

Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty will not run for a third term, but may go for a 2012 presidential bid, says MSNBC.

Poll-itics: Pawlenty fatigue

By GottaLaff

Maybe if he'd certify Al Franken already, he'd see his numbers perk up:

Though Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R) is thought to harbor ambitions to run for president in 2012, a new SurveyUSA poll finds that 57% of Minnesota voters don't even want him to run for a third term next year.

Not exactly the kind of encouragement he'd want as a potential 2012 candidate. Tsk tsk. That's what he gets for depriving his state of a U.S. Senator.

Photo: Dear Tim, Certify Franken. Love, Dems

By GottaLaff

Tweeted by The Fix:

National Dem group ramps up pressure on Tpaw to certify Franken: