McCain, Bachmann and Pawlenty. The REAL Gangster Government.
Newsmax admires probable Presidential candidate Tim Pawlenty, the current governor of Minnesota, because The Guv is playin’ the game. The game is lying about Obama and repeating criticism designed to mislead the public. I don’t mind criticism of President Obama, as long as it’s honest and based on facts, but when Republicans cross over into Making Stuff Up Land, which they often do, it becomes annoying. Newsmax’s recent story on Pawlenty is certainly sympathetic to something other than reality.
Guv Pawlenty [unfactually claims]: Obama Corrosive to Freedom, Liberty
“President Obama has used bait-and-switch tactics first to get elected and now to push his healthcare proposal, Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty tells Newsmax.
During the campaign, Obama portrayed himself as a centrist but has governed as a “movement liberal,” says Pawlenty, who is widely seen as preparing for a presidential bid and has started Freedom First PAC to raise funds for Republican candidates in next year’s elections.
“His solutions are federalization of policy, spending way beyond anything we’ve seen in terms of deficit or debt levels, spending the country into bankruptcy,” Pawlenty says. “And what’s behind it is a philosophy that government knows best, a nanny-state mentality on domestic issues that will ultimately be corrosive to the other pillars of our country — to markets, private enterprise, individual responsibility, freedom and liberty.”
That’s a funny thing for a Republican politician to say, because they believe the U.S. should police the world and turn every country with oil into democracies — the ultimate ideology of a nanny-state. Republicans want America to be Nanny of the World.
“On the national security front, “History proves that it is weakness, not strength, that tempts our enemies,” observes Pawlenty. “And he is projecting potential weakness, and enemies may see that and their respect may be reduced as a result of that, or worse.”
How do you project potential weakness? Is that like thinking about things, instead of deciding from “the gut” and making rash decisions, like Bush “The Decider” did?
“Obama sold his healthcare proposal as a way to reduce costs and help the economy. But, Pawlenty says, “I think it’s going to go down as one of the biggest bait-and-switch acts in history. . . . . “They have lost sight of the need first and foremost to contain costs and reduce the price of the overall system,” Pawlenty says. ”It’s going to cost more, not less.”
Pawlenty has no idea what he’s talking about. I wish he did. Minnesota is about as broke as other states, so Pawlenty is raising property taxes through the roof (I know this because I live in MN) and cutting necessary things such as health care for the homeless. Pawlenty campaigned on “no new taxes” so he’s the King of “bait and switch”. And Pawlenty certainly knows nothing at all about foreign policy except what he’s read in books or on right-wing websites. That’s hardly a sufficient education.
Additionally, Obama hasn’t spent nearly as much of our money increasing the debt as during the endless Bush administration. Here’s some info. on the debt that Pawlenty should read about:
The U.S. debt is $11.6 trillion, and is the sum of all outstanding debt owed by the Federal Government.
Over half is the public debt, which is owed to individuals, corporations and foreign governments, who have purchased Treasury Bills, Notes and Bonds.
The rest is owed by the government to itself, and is held as Government Account securities. Most of this is owed to the Social Security and other trust funds, which have been running surpluses. The securities are a promise to repay these funds when Baby Boomers retire over the next 20 years. (Source: U.S. Treasury, Debt to the Penny; Debt FAQ)
The Size of the U.S. Debt:
At $11.6 trillion, the U.S. debt is the highest in the world. The only reason it was allowed to get this high is that the U.S. economy had been so strong and so stable for so long that everyone reasonably expected they would be paid back. In other words, the U.S. has been such a large customer that it has been allowed to run a huge tab. (Source: CIA World Factbook)
Even before the economic crisis, the U.S. debt increased by 50% between 2000 and 2007 when it grew from $6 to $9 trillion. Bailout efforts to curb the economic crisis in 2008 increased the debt to $10.5 trillion.”
Remember who started the bailouts? George Bush.
George Bush grew the debt to $10.4 trillion during his presidency.
And because of George Bush’s financial mismanagement of everything, but especially the two wars he started, we are in this economic mess. Obama is trying very hard to dig us out. We might not agree with the way he’s doing it, but most economists agree that he has, so far, prevented another Great Depression. One more year of George Bush, and we’d be in the next Depression.
Pawlenty ends on a typical misleading note:
“President Obama has governed in an extremely liberal way, and he hasn’t accomplished many major initiatives, but the few that he has have been almost exclusively partisan. That defies what he said during the campaign and doesn’t live up to that promise.”
If Obama is “liberal”, I wonder how Pawlenty would describe Dennis Kucinich. (A real liberal). Not that it matters. Pawlenty is finding himself ever more filled with BS, the pre-requisite to running for president as a Republican.
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